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Right to Repair: the First Step in Solving eWaste
As businesses navigate the landscape of technological innovation, it’s crucial to explore the intricate connections between eWaste, business growth and the imperative of embracing the right to repair. It’s difficult to talk about topics like eWaste and sustainability from the corporate or IT perspective without sounding preachy on one hand or self-serving on the […]
The Most Potent Climate Action You Can Take – VOTE!
I’m not telling you to just show up at the polls and cast your ballot. Crew members do their homework. There are two sides to this coin. Not only do you need to learn about your politicians’ stances on climate issues, but crew members must also understand the issues. They are climate literate. They know […]
Interconnected and Interdependent – a New Normal
“If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program… immediately.” – R. Buckminster Fuller We have to stop focusing on artificial dualities and past battles and move forward at every level. How do we categorize ourselves? […]
Addressing Our Climate Crisis at the Grass Roots
Editor’s Note: Jon Biemer gives us a real life example of what can happen at the local level when climate activists, municipal administrators and just plain folks cooperate and collaborate to tackle our climate crisis. Pat Wartinger is a retired teacher and grandmother and a whirlwind of sustainability. The point here is not so […]
A Better Way Forward for the IT Industry and All of its Stakeholders
“Businesses need to transform… be skeptical of business as usual. There needs to be a movement. There has to be a better way. Crew consciousness is the shift we need.” – Tomás O’Leary, CEO and Founder, Origina By forcing customers to migrate to the cloud or risk losing support and security updates, tech vendors […]
A Better Way Forward for the IT Industry and All of its Stakeholders
“Businesses need to transform… be skeptical of business as usual. There needs to be a movement. There has to be a better way. Crew consciousness is the shift we need.” – Tomás O’Leary, CEO, Origina By forcing customers to migrate to the cloud or risk losing support and security updates, tech vendors effectively continue […]
Crew Living in Symbiosis with Spaceship Earth
“If you really want to help this world, what you will have to teach is how to live in it.” Joseph Campbell The Quartermaster’s Report, Volume 3, like its predecessors, is designed to be a guide and reference as to how harmoniously humanity and Earth are getting along with each other. And this edition […]
“The Quartermaster’s Report / Volume 3” is Now Available! Free!
This Spaceship Earth has published “The Quartermaster’s Report – Volume 3”. It is available for free download on our website. Here is the direct link to choose between an EPUB or PDF format: https://thisspaceshipearth.org/climate-change/quartermasters-reports/ In the golden era of sea exploration and empire building, the Quartermaster was the officer on a ship […]
Oregon Reduces eWaste with Right-to-Repair Bill
Oregon Governor Tina Kotek signed into law the newest and toughest right-to-repair act in the U.S. This is the fourth such state law in the country, and it goes even further than California’s, in particular by resisting Apple’s lobbying to ban the use of “parts pairing” to hinder independent repair services. Parts pairing is […]
What Motivates People to Act Sustainably?
The central question of my upcoming book, Our Journey to Sustainability, has been “What motivates people to act on behalf of the planet.” Here was my conundrum. After interviewing sixty people who are actually making a difference and collecting a like number of stories from other sources, I still hadn’t succinctly answered my question. […]
