24 d’abr. 2019
Click Clean: Is your favourite app powered by renewables or dirty energy?
https://www.greenpeace.org/international/act/click-clean/
Imagine if the data centres that drive our internet were powered by renewable energy, rather than dirty coal. If tech companies could be as innovative about the environment as they are about their products, the world would be a much cleaner, greener and smarter place
The IT sector already consumes an estimated 7% of global electricity. That’s why we need data centres and other digital infrastructure to become 100% renewably powered. By doing so, our increasing reliance on the internet can actually accelerate our transition to a renewably powered economy.
Imagine if the data centres that drive our internet were powered by renewable energy, rather than dirty coal. If tech companies could be as innovative about the environment as they are about their products, the world would be a much cleaner, greener and smarter place
The IT sector already consumes an estimated 7% of global electricity. That’s why we need data centres and other digital infrastructure to become 100% renewably powered. By doing so, our increasing reliance on the internet can actually accelerate our transition to a renewably powered economy.
Circular Business Models in the Mobile Phone Industry
https://norden.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1153357/FULLTEXT02.pdf
The project objectives were to map out the extent to which more circular business
models are being adopted in the mobile phone and service industry, and identify how
this adoption can be accelerated. The focus was on models that extend the active
lifetimes of phones and their components.
models are being adopted in the mobile phone and service industry, and identify how
this adoption can be accelerated. The focus was on models that extend the active
lifetimes of phones and their components.
Circular Business Models in the Mobile Phone Industry
The final seminar in a project commissioned by the Nordic Council of Ministers to map out circular economy business models in the mobile phone sector in Nordic countries. The team has analysed the issue through in-depth interviews with stakeholders. As well as mapping out models, we’ve identified opportunities and obstacles to growth in circular business models represented by the current legal, economic and organisational framework conditions.
Come to the seminar and hear the results of the studies and participate in discussions on developing potential initiatives that can accelerate adoption of circular business models. There will also be opportunities for short case presentations by industry stakeholders including mobile phone brands, network service providers, mobile phone repairers/refurbishers and retailers. We welcome a range of participants including industry stakeholders, policy makers and consumer organisations!
Detailed programme (pdf)
Come to the seminar and hear the results of the studies and participate in discussions on developing potential initiatives that can accelerate adoption of circular business models. There will also be opportunities for short case presentations by industry stakeholders including mobile phone brands, network service providers, mobile phone repairers/refurbishers and retailers. We welcome a range of participants including industry stakeholders, policy makers and consumer organisations!
Detailed programme (pdf)
Closing the Loop FOR MOBILE PHONES
http://www.closingtheloop.eu/
Get started on circularity.
Combine unique marketing with societal benefits.
Your company uses mobile phones. We make this usage circular by offsetting your phones.
One phone you use, leads to one discarded phone being responsibly collected and recycled. One for One.
Our services turn your circular ambitions into tangible and audited results and an appealing story. Offsetting your phones makes your gadgets waste-free and material-neutral.
It works like this:
Get started on circularity.
Combine unique marketing with societal benefits.
Your company uses mobile phones. We make this usage circular by offsetting your phones.
One phone you use, leads to one discarded phone being responsibly collected and recycled. One for One.
Our services turn your circular ambitions into tangible and audited results and an appealing story. Offsetting your phones makes your gadgets waste-free and material-neutral.
It works like this:
- You buy a phone and want this purchase to be more sustainable;
- CTL charges you a fee of a few euros per phone;
- CTL uses that fee to pay its African partners for the collection of an end-of-life phone;
- This collection is done by local communities in the emerging world, in a safe way that is fully in line with international laws;
- If proper recycling is not possible locally, CTL ships the waste to certified facilities;
- The waste is then turned into reusable materials (urban mining), in a safe and clean way;
- You get great content, circular results and audited reporting on our approach.
Closing the Loop - Circular Economy for mobile phones (Ghana)
http://www.reinhardtsmit.com/projects/closing-loop-circular-economy-mobile-phones
Closing the Loop is a Netherlands-based organisation that creates a circular economy for mobile phones. In practise, they give good quality second hand mobile telephones a second life in Africa, but more importantly, they create a reverse-distribution system in less developed nations to collect mobile phones for recycling.
http://www.closingtheloop.eu/
Closing the Loop is a Netherlands-based organisation that creates a circular economy for mobile phones. In practise, they give good quality second hand mobile telephones a second life in Africa, but more importantly, they create a reverse-distribution system in less developed nations to collect mobile phones for recycling.
http://www.closingtheloop.eu/
Circular business models in the mobile phone industry
The Nordic Council of Ministers has published an extensive report on circular business models in the mobile phone industry in the Nordic countries, in which they identify opportunities and obstacles to growth in circular business models.
https://stateofgreen.com/en/partners/state-of-green/news/circular-business-models-in-the-mobile-phone-industry/
https://stateofgreen.com/en/partners/state-of-green/news/circular-business-models-in-the-mobile-phone-industry/
21 d’abr. 2019
11 Uses for Your Old Smartphone
Do you have an old smartphone lying around? Repurpose it! There are a number of ways you can reuse that old mobile device.
Contribute Your Phone to Science
As long your old smartphone still turns on, it's probably just about as powerful and capable as your late-90s desktop. So, why not "donate" some of those unused resources to a good cause? Currently just for Android, you can download the BOINC app (Google Play), which was developed by the University of Berkeley to harnesses your device's unused computing power for crowdsourced science.
You can help SETI@Home search for alien signals, use computational power for health and sustainability research with IBM's World Community Grid, assist Asteroids@home in trying to avoid the planet getting hit by an asteroid, and other such projects. Choose which project you want to help, hook it up to your local Wi-Fi, and help our species progress into the future!
As long your old smartphone still turns on, it's probably just about as powerful and capable as your late-90s desktop. So, why not "donate" some of those unused resources to a good cause? Currently just for Android, you can download the BOINC app (Google Play), which was developed by the University of Berkeley to harnesses your device's unused computing power for crowdsourced science.
You can help SETI@Home search for alien signals, use computational power for health and sustainability research with IBM's World Community Grid, assist Asteroids@home in trying to avoid the planet getting hit by an asteroid, and other such projects. Choose which project you want to help, hook it up to your local Wi-Fi, and help our species progress into the future!
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