The fourth installment of the ELECTRONICS – ECOLOGIES series, MANUFACTURING, was held at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore on Monday 4 December 2023. You can view the article discussed in this presentation via: Lepawsky, Josh. […]
Author: Josh Lepawsky
No Electronics without semiconductors and no semiconductors without water
Without semiconductors there are no electronics and without sufficient water, there are no semiconductors. New research published in iScience provides a global analysis of semiconductor manufacturing locations and the projected future water stress they are […]
Social Scientist job in tech
The Social Media Collective (SMC), a research group at Microsoft Research Labs, is hiring a social sciences post-doc. As the SMC website states: This is an ideal opportunity for a new Ph.D. to conduct original […]
Mél Hogan’s Data fix podcast
Mél Hogan (@mel_hogan@mstdn.ca) is a professor of film and media studies who also produces the The Data Fix podcast. The podcast is a project arising from something perhaps ineffable that broke during the COVID pandemic. […]
MEMEX
This is an experiment in writing-as-thinking-on-the-go. It’s inspired by Cory Doctorow’s Pluralistic blog. It uses the library function of Zotero to create a publicly available ‘memex‘ of notes and writing for a notional public audience. […]
The Last Computer
This is a project I’m calling, ‘The Last Computer’. It boils down to these questions: What if I could not buy another computer? How long can I keep the computers I already have in working […]
New report – electronics repair and maintenance in China
The electronics repair and maintenance sector in China offers significant conservation value when measured in terms of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e). Under the scenarios we examine the RMC sector avoids between 65 million and 212 […]
Pollution release and transfer data
I have a paper published called, “Mapping chemical discardscapes of electronics production” (it’s free to download). It’s about pinpointing what researchers can learn about the electronics sector and the chemicals that are released during the […]
New Report – Electronics Repair and Maintenance in the European Union
The EU’s electronics repair sector reduces carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) by 3-10 million tonnes over new manufactures.
A World of Repair in 2030
A world of 2030 in which repair could be part of the scaffold that builds it is one based not on efficiency, but sufficiency. — Lepawsky (2020)
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