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1 week ago

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1 week ago

a reminder that it's so often the little things that we all can do that feel so big to someone else:

from CNN's 5 Good Things:
A mother and daughter reunite one last time
Get the tissues out for this one, folks. The airport is one of the more stressful places to spend a day, a stress compounded by connections, delays, cancellations and hubbub that never dies down. Thank goodness, then, for these flight crews who moved mountains (or at least flight schedules) to help one passenger say a final goodbye to her mother.

Hannah White was racing from Texas to North Dakota to see her mother, who was in critical condition from septic shock. White didn’t know how long she’d have to spend with her mom before she died, but she knew every second counted. She was about to take off from Dallas when the pilot’s voice intoned overhead that their flight was delayed. She’d have to make a connecting flight to get home in time to see her mother, and she knew she’d miss it with the delay. The next flight wouldn’t be until the following day. The worst day of White’s life was only getting worse.

All seemed lost until Delta flight attendant Eva Ortiz told the pilot, Captain Keith Napolitano, about White’s challenge. He asked Delta dispatchers if they could hold her connecting flight until she could make it — and they did. Even her fellow passengers pitched in to help her get there, offering up their seats at the front so she could deplane faster and looking up the fastest route to her next gate. She made it on the next plane and then to Bismarck, where she shared one more day with her mother before she passed.

“I don’t think any of them really know the gratitude that I have for them for giving me some extra time with my mom or just being nice to me on one of the worst days of my life,” White told CNN. “It wasn’t one person who did one huge thing. It was a lot of people doing a really nice thing.” ... See MoreSee Less

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2 weeks ago

www.genevaenvironmentnetwork.org/resources/updates/the-growing-environmental-risks-of-e-waste/
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Circular Approach for Electronics
A new vision for the production and consumption of electronic and electrical goods is needed. It is easy for e-waste to be framed as a post-consumer problem, but the issue encompasses the lifecycle of the devices everyone uses. Designers, manufacturers, investors, traders, miners, raw material producers, consumers, policy-makers and others have a crucial role to play in reducing waste, retaining value within the system, extending the economic and physical life of an item, as well as its ability to be repaired, recycled and reused.

Changes in technology such as cloud computing and the internet of things (IoT) could hold the potential to “dematerialize” the electronics industry. The rise of service business models and better product tracking and takeback could lead to global circular value chains. Material efficiency, recycling infrastructure and scaling up the volume and quality of recycled materials to meet the needs of electronics supply chains will all be essential. If the sector is supported with the right policy mix and managed in the right way, it could also lead to the creation of millions of decent jobs worldwide...

contact us to make a plan for your organization's retiring laptops that will meet your security needs, refurbish your donated laptops and give them to people in our shared community who do not otherwise have reliable access to a computer! Be part of the Life Extension Realm of the New Circular Vision for Electronics!
dokindworks.org/get-involved/digital-empowerment/
contact: deb.lang@DoKindWorks.org

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