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SOCAP: The Market at the Intersection of Money and Meaning

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I hope you'll pardon me if I start with a green tech thing. A woman named Gail Work stopped by to chat about her new non-toxic green battery company in Silicon Valley called SeaWave Battery. She said that it generates more electricity at a lower cost than lead-acid and lithium ion batteries. Image: yours truly, Jim Lynch.

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

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In the last 10 years, iron ore production has increased by 180%, cobalt by 165%, and lithium by 125%. Although we’ve been told otherwise, there is no such thing as a “green” cell phone or computer. Images: iFixit. And getting those materials out of the ground has environmental consequences.

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