An Electronic Silent Spring – September, 2016 Newsletter

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

An Electronic Silent Spring – July, 2016 Newsletter from Katie Singer

An Electronic Silent Spring  July, 2016 Newsletter from Katie Singer www.electronicsilentspring.com   Twenty years ago, during Bill Clinton’s presidency and Reid Hunt’s chairmanship of the FCC, the U.S. Congress passed the Telecommunications Act of 1996 (the TCA). Section 704 prohibits … Continue reading

An Electronic Silent Spring – June, 2016 Newsletter from Katie Singer

An Electronic Silent Spring  June, 2016 Newsletter from Katie Singer www.electronicsilentspring.com 26 days after the NIH’s National Toxicology Program reported that cell phone radiation definitively causes cancer, FCC Chair Tom Wheeler announced the Spectrum Frontiers Proceeding. On June 20, Wheeler … Continue reading

An Electronic Silent Spring – April, 2016 Newsletter from Katie Singer

An Electronic Silent Spring April, 2016 Newsletter from Katie Singer www.electronicsilentspring.com I end with good news. –Katie Children & Schools The Environmental Health Trust has compiled a spectacular, international list of schools, unions and PTAs that have taken steps to … Continue reading

An Electronic Silent Spring – March, 2016 Newsletter from Katie Singer

An Electronic Silent Spring March, 2016 Newsletter from Katie Singer www.electronicsilentspring.com E-Invisibles Since posting Mark Mills’ amazing report about how much electricity the Internet requires, “The Cloud Begins with Coal,” https://www.electronicsilentspring.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Cloud_Begins_With_Coal.pdf, I’ve learned about * The University of Melbourne’s Centre … Continue reading