ecoINSITE

  • Search

Intel: All processors shipped this year will be conflict-free

January 8, 2014 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Intel conflict-free processors

Excellent news from chipmaking giant Intel. CEO Brian M. Krzanich announced at CES that all of the microprocessors that it ships in 2014 will not contain conflict minerals. The company reported that it “had achieved a critical milestone and the minerals used in microprocessor silicon and packages manufactured in Intel’s factories are ‘conflict-free’ as concluded […]

Filed Under: Gadgets & Mobile, Servers Tagged With: conflict minerals, Intel, processor

Nokia puts suppliers on notice with anti-conflict mineral policy

February 4, 2012 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Rare earth mining and its associated trade bankrolls a lot of the violence that’s gripping the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). And given the convoluted supply chains that have become a hallmark of today’s global economy, these “conflict minerals” can wind up in your electronics. That’s a problem. Nokia has taken an official stance on […]

Filed Under: Gadgets & Mobile Tagged With: conflict minerals, Congo, Nokia

Infographic: Spotlight on conflict minerals

January 26, 2012 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Conflict Minerals

Venkel Ltd., a producer of electronics components headquartered in Austin, Texas, has released an infographic that explores the sources of four conflict minerals, coined 3TG (tungsten, tantalum, tin and gold). This comes as the SEC finds itself embroiled in a clash over conflict mineral provisions in the Dodd-Frank Act. Conflict minerals describe earth metals that come […]

Filed Under: Stats & Figures Tagged With: conflict minerals, Congo, Dodd-Frank, Gadgets, legislation, statistics

Banned! Apple nixes conflict mineral-y, e-waste-y Phone Story app

September 15, 2011 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Game maker with a message, Molleindustria (NSFW), may have stumbled on a sure-fire way to shine a light on the dark side of the electronics industry: create an iOS app about it and get it banned by Apple. Long story short, the company created a game called Phone Story based on the unsavory practices surrounding the […]

Filed Under: E-Waste & Recycling, Gadgets & Mobile Tagged With: app, Apple, apps, conflict minerals, e-waste, electronics lifecycle, electronics recycling, iPhone, Molleindustria

Sourcemap: Rattle (and tattle on) those supply chains

May 24, 2011 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Where do your gadgets really come from? The folks behind Sourcemap, a crowdsourced, open source project, hope to answer that question by cataloging where the components that make up our devices originate. It’s an effort to provide a measure of supply chain transparency, according to project founder Leo Bonanni (see his Greener Gadgets 2010 talk […]

Filed Under: ecoSocial, Featured, Gadgets & Mobile Tagged With: carbon footprint, conflict minerals, consumer electronics, crowdsourcing, Gadgets, manufacturing, open source, supply chain

Apple, Intel help keep gadgets free of conflict minerals

April 1, 2011 by Pedro Hernandez 1 Comment

Now we’re getting somewhere. Apple and Intel should feel pretty jazzed about forcing the electronics industry to take conflict minerals seriously and lending their support to keep consumer electronics supply chains free of the “blood diamonds” of the technology world. Gadgets, gadgets everywhere The past few years has been a paradise for gadget lovers. An […]

Filed Under: Featured, Gadgets & Mobile Tagged With: Apple, conflict minerals, Congo, corporate social responsibility, CSR, Gadgets, Intel, laws

U.S. Law Tackles Conflict Minerals

July 24, 2010 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Tucked into the financial reform legislation that President Obama signed into law were rules that require companies to disclose whether their products are manufactured from “conflict minerals” — essentially metals and materials that come from the war-torn Congo. Conflict minerals…

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Apple, conflict minerals, Congo, Gadgets, green gadgets, laws

Recently…

  • Climate change highlights from Bill Gates’ 7th Reddit AMA
  • When solar sours the home buying experience
  • Watch: Nova’s Rise of the Superstorms
  • Microsoft’s green underwater datacenter project reaches phase 2
  • Earth Day 2018: Apple’s new robot recycler, Jane Goodall Google Doodle

Categories

  • Business
  • Cleantech & Renewable Energy
  • Cloud Computing
  • Company Profiles
  • Data Center
  • E-Waste & Recycling
  • ecoSocial
  • Environment
  • EVs & Green Transportation
  • Featured
  • Gadgets & Mobile
  • Green IT
  • Industry Voices
  • Living
  • Servers
  • Smart Grid
  • Stats & Figures
  • Storage
  • Uncategorized
  • Virtualization

Keeping good company

1E Blogs
TreeHugger
GreenBiz.com
NYT Environment
Inhabitat
Data Center Knowledge
Triple Pundit
SmartPlanet

About ecoINSITE

Visit the ecoINSITE.com About Page

This work by Pedro Hernandez is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Creative Commons License

ecoINSITE RSS Feed RSS Feed
Site Map

Alltop. Bribes work.

Nuts n’ Bolts

Powered by Wordpress
Supercharged by Genesis
Hosting by Linode

Social

Visit ecoINSITE’s Facebook Page
Follow us on Twitter @ecoINSITE
ecoINSITE on Google+

© 2023 · ecoINSITE