CANARY CONVERSATIONS
“Understanding how different civilizations have understood how to be successful is just as important as understanding the last fifty to seventy-five years of the tech industry — the more people understand that, the better positioned they'll be to develop their activism."
Resources
The Toxic Avengers: A 4-Part Interview Series with Ted Smith
Part 1: Interview with Ted Smith, Founder of Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition
Part 2: Interview with The Toxic Avengers
Part 3: Interview with The Toxic Avengers
Part 4: Interview with The Toxic Avengers
Challenging the Chip: Labor Rights and Environmental Justice in the Global Electronics Industry, edited by Ted Smith, David A. Sonnenfeld, and David Naguib Pellow, published by Temple University Press (2006), 357 pages
If you missed it, catch up on Cutting Room Floor — Episode 1: First Burn, what Ted and I left out of this conversation.
Next week: Canary Sighting — here's what I'm watching.
🐦 Canary Question — Next time a company describes itself as "net positive" — on water, on carbon, on anything — do you take it at face value, or check what's actually being measured? (Feel free to weigh in with your comment or reply).
— Dee (still paying attention to the patterns)