High Tech Trash
Digital Devices, Hidden Toxics, and Human Health
Elizabeth Grossman(Author)
Island Press
Published on 1. April 2008
Audio
CD-Audio
978-1-59726-384-9 (ISBN)
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"Grossman manages to create a coherent, informative and scary narrative out of the births and deaths of electronics from TVs and cell phones to computer monitors and iPods." - WIRED NEWS "This is the dark side of Being Digital, the flip side of Wired magazine's bright outlook, and Grossman does an excellent job of exploring it." - E MAGAZINE "Informative, harrowing, and invaluable...essential for informed public discourse and action." - BOOKLIST "We depend on writers like...Elizabeth Grossman...to shake us awake, dispel the fever dream of consumerism and reveal the true cost of our love for technology and our obsession with machines and disposable goods." - THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE "Lizzie Grossman is among our most intrepid environmental sleuths - here she uncovers the answer to one of the more toxic questions of our time." - BILL MCKIBBEN, AUTHOR OF THE END OF NATURE"More details
Edition
Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Washington
United States
Edition type
Revised edition
ISBN-13
978-1-59726-384-9 (9781597263849)
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Elizabeth Grossman is the author of Watershed: The Undamming of America and Adventuring Along the Lewis and Clark Trail and co-editor of Shadow Cat: Encountering the American Mountain Lion. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, Salon, The Nation, Orion, High Country News, and other publications.