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November 20, 2019
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‘Digital sobriety’ can halt tech-fuelled global warming, says report

November 20, 2019
5 March 2019 By Michael Le Page Our tech addiction is cooking the planet. The manufacture and use of smartphones, computers and TVs will produce 4 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 and 8 per cent by 2025. That is the conclusion of a report on the sustainability of the digital technology sector put together by...
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Misconception of 5G

November 20, 2019
Re-posted from Electromagnetic Radiation Safety, Nov 18, 2019 Over the past two years, I have heard from many hundreds of people from all over our country who are opposed to the deployment of 5G. They have educated themselves about wireless radiation risks and decided they do not want the Telecom industry to install “small cells”...
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2011- Council of Europe: The potential dangers of electromagnetic fields and their effect on the environment

November 20, 2019
  The potential dangers of electromagnetic fields and their effect on the environment Excerpt: As regards standards or threshold values for emissions of electromagnetic fields of all types and frequencies, the Assembly strongly recommends that the ALARA (as low as reasonably achievable) principle is applied, covering both the so-called thermal effects and the athermic or...
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A Critical Review of Digital Technology in Education that should give Policy Makers and Educators Pause for Thought

November 20, 2019
Credit for post: Professor Tom Butler and The EM Radiation Research Trust PDF https://www.radiationresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Digital-Technology-in-Education-Working-Paper-2019.pdf “Digital Technology is hardly the benign, neutral presence in education that we are often assured it to be” Selwyn (2015, p. 247) Abstract There is a dearth of scientific evidence and evidence-based practice to justify current levels of digital technology use for...
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