"The electronics sector is so symbolic of what’s going on in the world. It’s a very narrow aperture that allows you to see a very broad field of problems." See Tech's Toll.
Author: Josh Lepawsky
$6.6 billion in public money for tsmc: what about the water?
Fortune picks up the story on the CHIPS Act, semiconductor manufacturing, water stress, and the climate emergency: “But in Phoenix, where the factories are going to be built, TSMC faces a lingering question: Where’s the […]
Climate change puts global semiconductor manufacturing at risk.
Can the industry cope? Josh Lepawsky, Memorial University of Newfoundland Semiconductors are the basic building blocks of microchips. These technological marvels are in everything from lightbulbs and toothbrushes to cars, trains and planes, not to mention […]
New Data set Available: Global semiconductor manufacturing locations
The data set provides unique latitude and longitude coordinates for 1,393 semiconductor manufacturing facilities. For full details, see: Lepawsky, Josh. 2024. ‘Climate Change Induced Water Stress and Future Semiconductor Supply Chain Risk’. iScience, January, 108791. […]
Software Centricity
Discard studies offers an important concept for tech criticism: defamiliarization. The concept comes from the worlds of art and theatre and basically refers to some sort of device that helps make the familiar or taken […]
There's always an alternative – if there wasn't, the other side wouldn't have to continuously repeat the lie that no alternative is possible.
Cory Doctorow -- pluralistic.net
Video Talk: scale, magnitude, and action
This is a short talk I gave for an invitation to the Prada Frames “Materials in Flux” symposium.
Video Talk Series: electronics and waste
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Video talk series: repair
“Is electronics repair a right? And if so, who needs it?” Electronics – Ecologies “Consumers’, advocates’, and resellers’ demands for a “Right to Repair” seems to be gaining broader acceptance. Policymakers around the world have […]
In My Opinion: Apple still has much to fix on repair
“Late in 2021, Apple announced that it would permit individual consumers to repair their own devices. This is welcome news for advocates who have been campaigning for years in the U.S., the EU, and elsewhere […]
Electronic Planet Research Lab 
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