Fairphone

A Life Less Throwaway: The Lost Art of Buying for Life

by Tara Button  · 8 Feb 2018  · 315pp  · 81,433 words

may well get funded. When they make their products unfixable •Vote with your wallet and look for fixable modular versions of products. For example, a Fairphone can be taken apart and upgraded easily. •If you have a product that needs fixing, visit your local Restart Project or Repair Café, or start

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of forward-thinking technology companies have adopted modular options as part of their conscientious policy, e.g. Fairphone, which we have identified as the BuyMeOnce smartphone company of choice (see overleaf). Smartphones The Fairphone is the BuyMeOnce mobile phone because it is designed to be upgraded. Each part can be replaced and

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customised. Want a better camera? No problem. Need more storage? You’ve got it. On top of that, Fairphone have actively tried to solve a problem other phone companies have ignored. In the past, it was impossible to find ethically sourced raw materials for

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phones, but Fairphone have managed to change that. They also offer a two-year warranty, double the warranty of most other smartphones, and encourage you to fix your

The Dark Cloud: How the Digital World Is Costing the Earth

by Guillaume Pitron  · 14 Jun 2023  · 271pp  · 79,355 words

players, while making de Kluijver’s repatriation activities cost-effective.62 Finally, phones should overwhelmingly be bought from Fairphone, the first company to bring ‘ethical’ smartphones to the market. Hailing from the Netherlands, Fairphone operates out of the IJhaven port in Amsterdam, which I was invited to visit in winter 2020. In

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our users to keep their phones for seven to eight years’, a member of the team tells me.63 The trick is modularity, meaning the Fairphone’s parts can be assembled and disassembled separately, and therefore replaced separately. ‘This is especially important for the battery and the screen’, says a technician

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older phone models.64 ‘Every day, I have moments of discouragement’, says the technician. Another limit is that the hundreds of thousands of third-generation Fairphones the company plans to sell is a mere fraction of the 1.5 billion mobile phones sold worldwide every year. Be that as it may

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smaller world, indistinguishable to the naked eye. ‘We’re constantly talking about Apple, but we never mention microchip manufacturers’, laments Agnès Crepet, an engineer at Fairphone.17 ‘Yet they’re at the heart of a huge environmental and social mess.’ The environmental toll of nanotechnologies ‘Step through the airlock and put

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the Sierra Club, for the developments on Dominion Energy. The entire book was also read by Agnès Crépet, head of software longevity and IT at Fairphone, the gracious Éric Rousseau (Université populaire d’Albertville), and the meticulous Axel Robine. Thank you for your demanding and constructive reads. I confidently put my

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: the five most powerful US companies of the digital economy. 13 To borrow the term used by Agnès Crepet, Head of Software Longevity & IT at Fairphone. 14 fridaysforfuture.org 15 The start-up in question is We Don’t Have Time: wedonthavetime.org 16 ‘What’s Behind Climate Change Activist Greta

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2019 as it did not have a viable business model. 63 Interview with Agnès Crepet, Head of Software Longevity and IT at Fairphone, 2020. 64 As an example, Fairphone managed to maintain the compatibility of its Fairphone 2 range, manufactured in 2015, with Android 9. Read ‘Redefining longevity: Android 9 now available for

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Fairphone 2’, fairphone.com, 25 March 2021. Chapter Three: The dark matter of a digital world 1 wupperinst.org. 2 Interview with Jens Teubler, research at the Wuppertal

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report to the Club of Rome, St Leonards, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, 1997. 17 Interview with Agnès Crepet, head of Software Longevity & IT at Fairphone, 2020. 18 Anti-static suits are worn to prevent an accumulation of static electricity. 19 The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission. See leti

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can also opt for operating systems like GrapheneOS (grapheneos.org) and LineageOS (lineageos.org). Some experts, like Agnès Crepet, head of software longevity & IT at Fairphone, reckon that Facebook has gone too far in its data collection policy, and that users are steadily moving away from the American tech titan’s

The Elements of Power: Gadgets, Guns, and the Struggle for a Sustainable Future in the Rare Metal Age

by David S. Abraham  · 27 Oct 2015  · 386pp  · 91,913 words

their vehicles, but does not state what elements must be in the radio microprocessors that affect its function. Even Bas van Abel, the founder of Fairphone, a company specifically set up “to use only source materials extracted in acceptable humane and environmental conditions,” doesn’t know the origins of all his

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, accessed April 12, 2015. http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2013-09-20/why-its-hard-to-make-an-ethically-sourced-smartphone; Victoria Knowles, “How Fairphone is dialed in on supply chain sustainability,” Greenbiz, August 13, 2014, accessed April 12, 2015, http://www.greenbiz.com/blog/2014/08/13/how

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-fairphone-dialed-supply-chain-sustainability; Karien Strouken, “Choosing the right materials for your Fairphone,” Fairphone Blog, November 5, 2012, http://www.fairphone.com/2012/11/05/choosing-the-right-materials-for-your-fairphone/. 39. European Union/European Commission, “Setting up a Union System for

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(Krishnamurthy and Gupta), 70 Eyang Subur, 126 F-35 Lightning II aircraft, 168 Facebook, 126 Factory Number 7 (Silmet), 67–69, 72–76, 80–82 Fairphone, 110 Fanya Metal Exchange, 97 FARC rebels (Colombia), 109 Fiber optics, 124 Fink, Colin, 162 First Solar, 149 Flat-screen technology, 122–24 Fleming, Rowland

The Day the World Stops Shopping

by J. B. MacKinnon  · 14 May 2021  · 368pp  · 109,432 words

the past a life in the present, but it can also be a vision of the future. Passing through Amsterdam, I visited the offices of Fairphone, a company that offers mobile phones that are built to last. The phones are modular, meaning they are easy to disassemble: they showed me how

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a broken screen could be replaced, or an older camera upgraded to a new one, in under a minute. Fairphone also offers software and security support far longer than the major phone manufacturers. Many of their customers are people who found the rapid replacement cycle

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attachment to the device itself—its nicks, scratches and dents, the way it feels in their hand—and don’t want to give it up. Fairphone offers these customers what they are looking for: their old machine, able to do new tricks. A worn, dusty, weathered and jury-rigged future—it

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: Business plays the long, long, long, long game Other sources include Toraya Group archives, The Henokiens (henokiens.com), INSEAD Wendel International Centre for Family Enterprise, Fairphone and Low-tech Magazine (lowtechmagazine.com and solar.lowtechmagazine.com). Anthony, Scott D., S. Patrick Viguerie, Evan I. Schwartz, and John Van Landeghem. 2018 Corporate

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,” 246. See also, Zavestoski, Stephen esteem, essential element, 246 Every One Every Day, 186–93 externalities, 288 “extreme luxury,” 199 extrinsic values, 120–21, 127 Fairphone, 152 Fakir Fashion, 157, 159–60 Fakir, Yousuf Ali, 158 fakirs, 157 family budget, 36–38 family business, 161, 170, 172, 174, 181, 188 fashion

Data Wrangling With Python: Tips and Tools to Make Your Life Easier

by Jacqueline Kazil  · 4 Feb 2016

nested attributes? CSS also uses these nested attributes. Let’s take a look using our element inspection tools. Because you are likely still on the Fairphone site, let’s take a look at some of the CSS on the page. When we highlight an element in our bottom toolbar, we see

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, but it’s very easy to switch and use a different driver): from selenium import webdriver browser = webdriver.Firefox() browser.get('http://www.fairphone.com/we-are-fairphone/') browser.maximize_window() Imports the webdriver module from Selenium. This module is used to call any installed drivers. Instantiates a Firefox browser object by

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): [{'full_name': u'Stefan Brand', 'original_link': None, 'picture': u'https://pbs.twimg.com/media/COZlle9WoAE5pVL.jpg:large', 'short_name': u'', 'text_content': u'Simply @Fairphone :) #WeAreFairphone http://t.co/vUvKzjX2Bw', 'timestamp': u'POSTED ABOUT 14 HOURS AGO'}, {'full_name': None, 'original_link': None, Browser-Based Parsing | 319 'picture': None, 'short

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': None}, {'full_name': u'Sietse/MFR/Orphax', 'original_link': None, 'picture': None, 'short_name': u'', 'text_content': u'Me with my (temporary) Fairphone 2 test phone. # happytester #wearefairphone @ Fairphone instagram.com/p/7X-KXDQzXG/', 'timestamp': u'POSTED ABOUT 17 HOURS AGO'},...] The data looks to be in varied states of disarray. Our

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(attr) except NoSuchElementException: pass return None def get_browser(): browser = webdriver.Firefox() return browser def main(): browser = get_browser() browser.get('http://apps.twinesocial.com/fairphone') all_data = [] browser.implicitly_wait(10) try: all_bubbles = browser.find_elements_by_css_selector( 'div.twine-item-border') except WebDriverException: browser.implicitly_wait(5

Volt Rush: The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green

by Henry Sanderson  · 12 Sep 2022  · 292pp  · 87,720 words

the Congo into their garage. It was comforting to ignore the Congo, to wish it out of existence. Monique Lempers, from the sustainable phone maker Fairphone, said the Amnesty report had made companies adopt a ‘risk-averse approach’, to ensure there was no child mining of cobalt, rather than to engage

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–4, 227; see also Belgium; Germany; Sweden; United Kingdom European Battery Alliance 221 EVs, see electric vehicles ExxonMobil 22, 25, 26–7 Fadell, Tony 4 Fairphone 140 Falconbridge Nickel Mines 156 ferrite 39 Figureres, Christiana 246 fishing 151, 166 FMC 51–2, 58, 59 Foote Mineral 51 Force Publique 136 forced

The Rare Metals War

by Guillaume Pitron  · 15 Feb 2020  · 249pp  · 66,492 words

goods, as have countless NGO reports.35 Consumers would have needed to put pressure on manufacturers to design more ecological products, such as the repairable Fairphone,36 and to use their votes to pressure their governments to beef up feeble anti-obsolescence regulations. But consumers would hear nothing of it: a

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. To give just one example, read ‘Time to Recharge: corporate action and inaction to tackle abuses in the cobalt supply chain’, Amnesty International, 2017. ‘The Fairphone, a No-conflict Smartphone without Planned Obsolescence’, World Forum for a Responsible Economy, 28 July 2017. ‘The “Right to Repair” Movement Wants You to Be

Everything for Everyone: The Radical Tradition That Is Shaping the Next Economy

by Nathan Schneider  · 10 Sep 2018  · 326pp  · 91,559 words

considering the human conditions surrounding the mineral extraction and assembly of the hardware on which platforms depend. Notably, Britain’s Phone Co-op promotes the Fairphone, a Dutch smartphone built with decent working conditions and conflict-free minerals, and the Indonesian co-op KDIM is building its own locally produced smartphone

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, Medgar, 191 Facebook, 31, 143–144, 153, 218–219 Fairbnb, 155 FairCoin, 116, 128, 130–131 FairCoop, 116, 129, 131–132, 219 Fairmondo, 150, 160 Fairphone, 162 fair-trade movement, 9, 49–50, 150 Farm Bureau insurance system, 56–57 Farm Credit System, 104 farmers African American, 62, 200 co-op

Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires

by Douglas Rushkoff  · 7 Sep 2022  · 205pp  · 61,903 words

their oppression portends. The manufacture of our computers and smartphones still depends on networks of slave labor. These practices are deeply entrenched. A company called Fairphone, founded to make and market ethical phones, learned it was impossible. (The company’s founder now sadly refers to its products as “fairer” phones .) Meanwhile

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at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity (New York: Penguin Portfolio, 2016), 19.   50   miscarriages, cancers, and shortened lifespan : Producing the Fairphone , directed by Geert Rozinga (De Eerlijke Onderneming, 2016), https:// www .vpro .nl /programmas /tegenlicht /kijk /afleveringen /2016 -2017 /de -eerlijke -onderneming .html.   51   “create the

This Is Not a Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook

by Extinction Rebellion  · 12 Jun 2019  · 138pp  · 40,525 words

. The manufacture of some of our computers and smartphones still uses networks of slave labour. These practices are so deeply entrenched that a company called Fairphone, founded from the ground up to make and market ethical phones, learned it was impossible. (The company’s founder now sadly refers to their products

Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

by Jason Hickel  · 12 Aug 2020  · 286pp  · 87,168 words

Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization

by Parag Khanna  · 18 Apr 2016  · 497pp  · 144,283 words