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iFixit’s Basic Phone Repairs that Most of Us Can Do

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I’m sure those policies make sense to manufacturers of electronics. But repair-unfriendly policies certainly don’t make sense to me: those policies hurt customers and they hurt the environment. In the last 10 years, iron ore production has increased by 180%, cobalt by 165%, and lithium by 125%.

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Interview with Jodie Van Horn of Freedom from Oil and Plug-in Bay Area

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They were going to go out to those cities and try to form partnerships with the cities, to get the Mayors or the council members of those cities, at a policy level, to endorse the Plug-In Partner campaign, and then subsequently to get them to place a soft fleet order. They began by setting a target of 50 U.S. It's a really exciting time.