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SOCAP: The Market at the Intersection of Money and Meaning

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She said that it generates more electricity at a lower cost than lead-acid and lithium ion batteries. These are the people behind the great nonprofit Story of Stuff animated environmental videos. Frankie Ridolf i stopped by to see how they can do more to help nonprofits tell their story. I fervently wish them well. Free Range.

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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%. Do you have a gadget repair story? They are also one of the most environmentally damaging.

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

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When this program sprang up, Rainforest Action Network, had been involved in campaigns surrounding the crushing of the EV1 a decade ago, which happened here in California -- with the car mandate -- many people have now seen Who Killed The Electric Car , and it goes into explaining that story quite well.