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

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Environment aside, from a consumers standpoint it makes a tremendous amount of sense. Additionally, there has been a lot of rhetoric on the part of the automakers regarding the greenness of their operations, when in fact what we are seeing is a lot of green-washing. They recognize that green is very vogue right now.

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

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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%. Pound-for-pound, electronics are the most complicated objects human beings know how to make.

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