My new report, “Transportation within our means,” illuminutes the shocking realities of electrifying everything. It’s posted at https://katiesinger.substack.com. Please sign up for a free or paid subscription! Last March, after Judge Miranda Du ruled that there’s no ecological reason to … Continue reading
Category Archives: Blog
Dear Readers, I’ve shifted to publishing at Substack, a platform that allows writers to get paid. To continue receiving my reports and newsletters, please subscribe! Paid subscribers will receive all of my posts; free subscribers will receive most of them. … Continue reading
Questioning Our Digital Footprint Nearly every day, I hear about “zero-emitting,” “carbon-neutral” solar PV arrays, industrial wind facilities, battery storage, Internet access, electric vehicles (EVs) and “grid modernization.” Yesterday I learned that my state’s legislators are considering a bill that … Continue reading
Katie Singer’s video, “Tracing the Internet’s supply chains to reduce technology’s impacts on nature” will show at The Nova Institute’s annual conference December 1-2, 2022. Register for the free conference here. See more details about it here. See Katie Singer’s video here: … Continue reading
In the event that a developer proposes installing a solar facility near you, how do you protect your community from toxic fire hazards, high water use, groundwater contamination and end-of-life e-waste? First, get informed. Find resources at Katie Singer’s newest … Continue reading
What increases energy demands, mining, carbon and toxic emissions and waste? Here are possible answers: ONLINE MEETINGS. Gerry McGovern, called by The Irish Times “one of five visionaries who have had major impact on the Web’s development,” assumed that online … Continue reading
Whatever happens in our society (i.e., women of childbearing age have menstrual cycles) now intersects with digitalization. Here is my piece, “Reproductive health in a digital era:” www.OurWeb.tech/letter-42. On July 13th, www.meer.org (formerly Wall Street International), posted an earlier version. … Continue reading
Filmmaker Julia Barnes recently taped me giving a brief overview about the Internet’s hidden costs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6ttuNNKm8o Julia Barnes’ fantastic documentary, “Bright Green Lies,” based on the book by Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith and Max Wilbert, about how the environmental movement … Continue reading
Our Web of Inconvenient Truths November, 2019 Newsletter from Katie Singer www.ourweb.tech; www.electronicsilentspring.com 1. While publication of Our Web of Inconvenient Truths (the book) has been delayed, to learn about the Internet’s footprint—its energy use, greenhouse gases, toxic waste and … Continue reading
by Katie Singer Around the country, telecom providers have begun mapping their plans to deploy 5G “small” cellular, microwave-emitting sites throughout neighborhoods. Every person deserves to be informed. The largest thing that humanity has built Already the largest thing that … Continue reading
An Electronic Silent Spring December, 2017 Newsletter from Katie Singer www.electronicsilentspring.com To safeguard the public, shouldn’t municipalities use existing regulations for deployments of “smart” and telecom infrastructure? by Katie Singer * www.electronicsilentspring.com Given the current political climate, creating regulations … Continue reading
The consequences of “smart”phones & meters by Katie Singer * www.electronicsilentspring.com 1. Depletion of natural resources The Internet (including the Internet of Things and the smartgrid) is the largest thing that humanity has built. As it grows, the Internet … Continue reading
An Electronic Silent Spring September, 2017 Newsletter from Katie Singer www.electronicsilentspring.com Q&A on the way to 5G (5th generation mobile infrastructure) by Janet Newton and Katie Singer To streamline installation of cellular antennas, Santa Fe, New Mexico’s City Council passed … Continue reading
* http://emfsafetynetwork.org/smart-meters/smart-meter-fires-and-explosions/ … Continue reading
An Electronic Silent Spring May, 2017 Newsletter from Katie Singer www.electronicsilentspring.com Reality According to the Cellular Telephone and Internet Association (CTIA), Americans’ use of smartphones between 2015 and 2016 increased by 14.7%. Use of tablets increased by 16.7%. Data traffic … Continue reading
by Katie Singer About 200 years ago, we humans figured out how to generate, store and transmit electricity. After a Danish scientist discovered electromagnetism in 1819, electric inventions radically changed domestic life, created entertainment industries and allowed speedy international … Continue reading
An Electronic Silent Spring January, 2017 Newsletter from Katie Singer www.electronicsilentspring.com Humanity will be divided into two races: people who believe that what is actually evil is good…and the people who must love them. –Rudolph Steiner, 1861-1925 Let’s … Continue reading
Dear Readers: I published my first book, a novel, in 1999, and wrote a Reader’s Digest version about the experience of publishing. This was before smartphones or social media. To get an idea of publishing today, put this essay on … Continue reading
An Electronic Silent Spring December, 2016 Newsletter from Katie Singer www.electronicsilentspring.com This newsletter is packed with Healthy Acts from We the People! Electricity = an average of 41 servants per household On National Public Radio recently, astrophysicist Adam Frank explained … Continue reading
An Electronic Silent Spring September, 2016 Newsletter from Katie Singer www.electronicsilentspring.com What’s constructive use of anyone’s attention? New e-technologies keep getting deployed, proposed and mandated: “small cells” (a new kind of antenna), distributed antenna systems (DAS–co-located on existing utility poles), … Continue reading