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Notes from the Pittsburgh Book Tour Stop
Editor’s Note: From time to time, we at TSE come across a book (or a movie, song, documentary, etc.) that we think our Crew members might want to know about. Below are notes by the author from his book tour… Jon Biemer is on a book tour with Our Journey to Sustainability: How Everyday Heroes […]
Inputs Needed for a Regenerative Future
Regenerative approaches aim for complete systems changes that address the root causes of our climate crisis and other global crises (they are all connected). The goal is to create the conditions for all life to thrive, generating self-sustaining positive outcomes for nature, people and the economy. Regeneration offers a bold vision of the future we […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
It IS Happening Faster Than Projected
One of the truest statements about our climate crisis, and an attempt at humor amidst crisis, is: No one has ever attended a Climate Change conference and returned to say, “Wow! Global warming is happening slower than expected.” The painful truth is that global warming and our resultant climate crisis is happening faster […]
UK Startup ENSO Tire Reinvents the Wheel
We are at the beginning of a sea change in product design and manufacturing that can lead us to a circular zero carbon economy. Massive opportunities abound and ENSO CEO Gunnlaugur Erlendsson has a first mover advantage. When tires make contact with the road, tiny particles are worn away by friction. Two billion tires […]
The Right to Repair is Long Past Due
Every person reading this column lives in a consumer economy. A consumer economy is a linear process of extract/produce/distribute/sell/buy/discard. We live in a world where waste has been planned into the equation. There is no waste in nature. Waste is a design flaw unique to humanity. A consumer economy not only promotes consumption, […]
