Mapping Our Technosphere Katie Singer’s Newsletter * April 2023
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While tax breaks abound for people buying rooftop solar systems, AES, an international corporation, proposes installing an 800-acre solar PV facility with 39 batteries in my county. (One battery is about 20’ x 12’ x 12’.) See my newest article, “Do I report what I’ve learned about solar PVs—or live with it, privately?” at
Paris Marx believes that tech won’t save us. Check out the newest post: “The Transport System Is in Crisis. Electric Cars Won’t Fix It.”
I keep hearing about people getting cancer—and people not knowing that microwave radiation emissions from devices and telecom infrastructure may increase cancer risks. To reduce exposure to electronics’ radiation emissions, turn Wi-Fi off at night. Use cell phones only on speaker. Make sure that your sleeping area (including whatever’s on the other side of your bedroom wall) has nothing plugged in or charging while you sleep. Check out “Simple Engineering Fixes” that could dramatically reduce cellphone radiation from the International Commission on the Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Fields. April 4, 2023. https://www.saferemr.com/2022/10/international-commission-on-biological.html
Russ Finch grows citrus and figs through cold Nebraska winters with greenhouses heated by eight-foot-deep trenches pumping geothermal heat. Is this an ecologically sound way for communities to reduce dependence on digitalized food supply chains?
Decades ago, Doug and Kristine Tompkins sold their assets in Esprit, North Face and Patagonia, became the largest landowners in South America—and turned the land into national parks. Jimmy Chin and Chai Vasarhelyi have filmed their story, “Wild Life.” https://www.tompkinsconservation.org/news/wild-life/
I’ll present “Mapping Our Technosphere” at the European Geologists’ Union Conference in Vienna April 23, 2023.
https://www.egu23.eu/
I’ll share my dream of Digital Enlightenment—when every smartphone user traces the supply chain of one substance in a smartphone.