Maddie Stone
Gizmodo
Philadelphia, PA, United States
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A Once-Shuttered California Mine Is Trying to Transform the Rare-Earth Industry
MP Materials claims the new U.S.-based rare-earth supply chain it is building will be greener than its counterparts in Asia. → Read More
How Big Tech Rewrote the Nation’s First Cell Phone Repair Law
Documents reveal tech lobbyists revised a right-to-repair bill before New York's governor signed it. → Read More
How Big Tech rewrote the nation’s first cell phone repair law
Tech lobbyists revised a repair bill before New York's governor signed it. → Read More
Automakers Have Ground Massachusetts Right-to-Repair Law to a Halt
The legal battle has major implications for drivers' pocketbooks, and for the climate. → Read More
Apple just launched its first self-repair program. Other tech companies are about to follow.
Under pressure from shareholders, Big Tech is finally making device repair easier. → Read More
What the supply chain crisis can teach us about how we shop
The supply chain, the climate, and you: All stressed for the same reason. → Read More
Native opposition to Nevada lithium mine grows
Tribes near the proposed mine at Thacker Pass say they weren't adequately consulted. → Read More
Bowing to investors, Microsoft will make its devices easier to fix
In a first-of-its-kind agreement, the company has committed to increasing access to spare parts and repair documents. → Read More
Can a tiny clothing company force the shipping industry to clean up its act?
This month, the Swiss outdoor clothing company Mammut took a small but “industry-leading” step toward addressing emissions from fossil-fuel-powered ships. → Read More
Can you recycle a hard drive? Google is quietly trying to find out
Rare earth magnet recycling is about so much more than sustainable data centers. → Read More
E-waste will go down because of COVID, but for all the wrong reasons
The data highlights a worsening “digital divide” between technological haves and have-nots. → Read More
The plan to turn coal country into a rare earth powerhouse
The Biden administration is ramping up efforts to extract crucial clean-energy metals from coal waste. → Read More
Should customers be able to repair their devices? This federal agency says yes.
The right to repair movement has “just been given a huge shot in the arm” by a new Federal Trade Commission report, said Gay Gordon-Byrne. → Read More
Apple finally admits its products are difficult to repair
The French government is requiring makers of smartphones and laptops to assign their products a “repairability” score based on how easy they are to fix. → Read More
Apple finally admits its products are difficult to repair
The French government is requiring makers of smartphones and laptops to assign their products a “repairability” score based on how easy they are to fix. → Read More
Cutting your carbon footprint matters a lot — if you’re rich
A new book pushes back against the narrative that individual actions make little difference to the climate. → Read More
The West has a new front in the war over electric cars
The battle of Thacker Pass highlights a challenge the Biden administration will have to grapple with to transition the U.S. economy to carbon-free energy. → Read More
Why France’s new 'repairability index’ is a big deal
A new law aims to keep smartphones out of the dump. It also has global implications. → Read More
In a trash-filled pandemic, low-waste businesses are taking off
Despite early fears that reusable containers could be a vector for disease, public concern over the environmental impacts of our trash hasn’t gone away. → Read More
Data centers are energy hogs. Could they help power the grid?
Google is trying to rehabilitate the data center’s image, by turning one into a big battery. → Read More