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Snapshot of Worldwide Electronics Recycling 2013

Tech Soup

The WEEE Directive is the set of laws that governs the proper collection and disposal of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) in the 27 countries of the European Union. The latest update of the law is expected to be formally approved in 2014. has a patchwork of laws in half of the U.S.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

Have Fun - Do Good

You can see the ripples kind of spreading out, but you don't know whether one ripple caused a tadpole to swim a different direction, you don't know whether a bird flew away because the ripples made it change its mind, you don't know whether a flower that might not have grown in that place now is growing in that place.

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