Smartphones and Sustainability

[@learnsustainability]

Interresting video, thank you! I will show it to my workshop participants when they ask me why we don't use iPads instead of post-consumer Post-it notes and flip charts that will be 100% recycled at the end of the session. Way to go weareedeos!!

[@edeosdigitaleducation]

Great, thanks!

[@aalttiii7548]

i agree with @paralder

[@JanELuft]

It'd be even better if numbers on consumer sales mentioned the top 3 to 5 nations, and not just Germany. The general public is too conditioned to look where they are directed to look and often it is away from what they too are doing. Also a mention of the benefit a company gets in keeping profits offshore tax free would also shed more light on a tilted playing field which favors big business over actual workers, local communities and companies that can not move their operations abroad to take advantage of criminally cheep labor.

[@edeosdigitaleducation]

Yeah you are right. That's because the original version was made in German.

[@BAKayaker]

Good representation of the invisible side of the technological revolution and consumerism. Thumbs up.

[@beeautyboxx355]

this really should have much more views!

[@edeosdigitaleducation]

Agreed ;)

[@PixiessDarkness]

edeos- digital education Il do my wee bit for views by sharing on fb :D

[@edeosdigitaleducation]

Thx!!

[@inchy0076]

Hello humanities class

[@dennismaddock]

Perhaps post it notes are the way to go. At least they are produced from renewable sources and are fully recyclable!

[@worteparoles6907]

Very clearly explained! I will use it in my lesson plan. Thank you!

[@djdindin1]

Anybody know which software was used to create this video?

[@edeosdigitaleducation]

Mostly AfterEffects.

[@sakthivelkarunakaran5374]

What is the solution to bring sustainable mobile phone which don't affect any birds through the radiation? 🙁

[@raissaneassoumani9007]

bonjour quelquun peut me traduire s'il vous plait ?

[@carolgarzon6486]

Great video! I look forward to the version of this video in Spanish!

[@jurgbuhler5937]

This video already is outdated at its release. In the DRC the rebels have been pushed out of the country with help of the UN. Yes there might be bad working conditions but this is due to the fact, that it is mostly artisanal mining. So the miners are selfemployed. So they should complain with themselves for bad working (long hours) and safety conditions. If international mining companies would come in and improve their safety and working conditions, the NGOs would start complaining about them taking away "their rights" and their business (while probably employing them at better terms that they had themselves). Also this artisanal, "informal" and mostly illegal mining is also responsible for the polution (i.e. use of Mercury in Gold Mining) causing damage to the environment and health of the people. But it is easy to just point fingers without presenting solutions for these poor (but rich in commodities) countries.

[@NiharGokhale]

I get that 'artisanal' mining is ineffective compared to corporate-run mining, but you seem to imply that mining corporations are safe, environmentally friendly and treat their employees well. That hasn't been proven to be true anywhere, especially so in poor countries.

[@jurgbuhler5937]

Nihar Gokhale If you look how little "scandals" the NGOs could come up against the "big boys" it shows, that there is not much in terms of environmental pollution or safety issues. Go to South America or Africa and see what the local artisanal or even small scale mining is doing in terms of pollution. I.e. Peru has a lawsuit against Ecuador because of the "Yellow River" that goes absolutely poluted into Peru. Big parts of Venezuela (Socialist paradise) heavily poluted by mercury and other horrors. When you watch what NGOs have i.e. against Xstrata you will find, that they blame them for having left their concession in DRC and artisenal miners have come in and their seems to have been some accident with casualties. Now they blame Xstrata for this. Of course if Xstrata had put up security to keep them off the NGOs would blame them for clashes and would claim that the artisanals have a right to the resources there. International companies are paying above average salaries (that NGOs would probably compare to saleries in developed countries), look carefully into all safety aspects especially as it benefits the operation anyway and are looking to minimize environmental impact or danger. The only thing I could credit the NGOs for is, that their existence and monitoring actually forces the international companies for highest levels of conduct and CSR (Corporate Social Responsability).

[@PornsawatLertvitayavivat]

We can not return and save the environment and same for the worker, So How .. We r the user How we can do for next generation and being a messenger for peace

[@edeosdigitaleducation]

There are some promising projects for more sustainable Smartphones like www.fairphone.com/ or phonebloks.com/en/goals

[@StephenAndrew777]

Hipsters are too hypocritical to exist. Yet they continue to exist. Telling strangers they think things that they clearly don't think at all is pretty intimidating though. I wouldn't want one of them to tell me I think things that I clearly don't think at all. I better watch my mouth.

[@belbras]

A reminder: smartphones has its fingerprint on child slavery. Terrible to know we all are contributing for that as long we buy those devices using raw materials like those from Congo. About smartphone quantity consuming you forgot to mention that US is 3rd largest consumer (Brazil, 5th and Germany, 8th). Also remembering that smartphones are cheaper in US than in Europe or in South America, therefore it is a factor to influence consuming. Let's not be mislead by this video's example. ; )

[@arnauddubreuil6017]

vive l anglais❤

[@Hitman2679]

I hope this is the sociology video we're suppose to watch lmao

[@edeosdigitaleducation]

Hitman2679 Was it? ;)

[@ducknutscentral3973]

oh no, im on the weird side of youtube again

[@cosasraras2261]

Menso