From the Movie

• Annotated Script (PDF)
• FAQs (PDF)

On the Web

• Electronics TakeBack Coalition
• National Cristina Foundation
• World Computer Exchange
• E-Stewards
• GoodElectronics Network
• makeITfair campaign

Report on planned obsolescence in electronics from Elizabeth Grossman and our friends at Demos

Check out this great, new report on planned obsolescence in electronics from Elizabeth Grossman and our friends at Dēmos.

Dēmos is a non-partisan public policy research and advocacy organization. Headquartered in New York City, Dēmos works with advocates and policymakers around the country in pursuit of four overarching goals: a more equitable economy; a vibrant and inclusive democracy; an empowered public sector that works for the common good; and responsible U.S. engagement in an interdependent world. Dēmos was founded in 2000.

Elizabeth Grossman is the author of Chasing Molecules: Poisonous Products, Human Health, and the Promise of Green Chemistry and High Tech Trash: Digital Devices, Hidden Toxics, and Human Health, among other books. Her work has appeared in a variety of publications including Scientific American, Salon, The Washington Post, The Nation, Chemical Watch, and Mother Jones. Chasing Molecules was chosen by Booklist as one of the Top 10 Science & Technology Books of 2009 and won a 2010 Gold Nautilus Award for investigative reporting. She has received support for her work from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Overbrook Foundation, Oregon Literary Arts, the Chemical Heritage Foundation, The Nation Institute, and the Fund for Investigative Journalism, and has been a science journalism fellow at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory. She has also served as a member of the Education & Communication Workgroup of the CDC’s National Conversation on Public Health and Chemical Exposures. She has a B.A. from Yale University and writes from Portland, Oregon.

Some of our other favorite books on the electronics issue are:

• Challenging the Chip: Labor Rights and Environmental Justice in the Global Electronics Industry, edited by Ted Smith, David A. Sonnenfeld and David Naguib Pellow, foreword by Jim Hightower
• High Tech Trash: The First Global Investigation of Technology’s Toxic Underside, by Elizabeth Grossman
• Making Microchips: Policy, Globalization, and Economic Restructuring in the Semiconductor Industry, by Jan Mazurek
• The Silicon Valley of Dreams: Environmental Injustice, Immigrant Workers, and the High-Tech Global Economy, by David Pellow and Lisa Sun Hee Park
• “Designed for the Dump” isn’t just an issue with our electronics—it’s everywhere! Read all about it (and a TON more) in The Story of Stuff book written by Annie herself. The book’s jam-packed with tons of information, personal stories, and even cute little pictures!