Becoming information literate about information technology and the ethics of toxic waste

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Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 99-107

  Zazzau, Vivien Elizabeth ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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EID: 32344435031     PISSN: 15312542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/pla.2006.0014     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Association of College and Research Libraries, Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education (Chicago, IL: American Library Association, 2000), 13.
2. Ibid.
3. Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, Poison PCs and Toxic TVs: E-Waste Tsunami to Roll Across US: Are We Prepared? Executive Summary, 2, http://www.svtc.org/cleancc/pubs/ poisonpc2004.htm (accessed October 6, 2005).
4. Ibid.
5. Rebecca A. Johns, "Remembering Our Place: Ethical Activism for Scholars," Ethics, Place and Environment 6, 1 (March 2003): 56.
6. Sheldon E. Steinbach, "Why Your College May Run Afoul of Environmental Laws and What to Do Next," Chronicle of Higher Education, June 25, 2004: B14.
7. C. A. Bowers, "Toward an Eco-Justice Pedagogy," Environmental Education Research 8, 1 (2002): 21.
8. Alastair Iles, "Mapping Environmental Justice in Technology Flows: Computer Waste Impacts in Asia," Global Environmental Politics 4, 4 (November 2004): 76.
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11. Robert Figueroa, "Teaching for Transformation: Lessons from Environmental Justice," in The Environmental Justice Reader: Politics, Poetics and Pedagogy, ed. Joni Adamson, Mei Mei Evans, and Rachel Stein (Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press, 2002), 311.
12. Bowers, 30.
13. Association of College and Research Libraries, 3.
14. Paul Stanistreet, "Education is a Tool for Social Justice. The More People You Can Get to and the Easier You Make It for Them, the Better You're Doing" (quoting Brenda Gourley), Adults Learning 15, 3 (November 2003): 15.
15. Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, "Poison PCs."
16. Stanistreet.
17. Doug Bartholomew, "E-Commentary-Computer Makers Tackle E-Waste," Industry Week 253, 1 (January 2004): 60.
18. Ibid.
19. Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition Clean Computer Campaign, "Poison PCs," see "Poison PC and Toxic TV Report" (2004), 21, http://www.svtc.org/cleancc/pubs/poisonpc2004.htm (accessed October 6, 2005).
20. The Wireless Foundation, Call to Protect, CTIA, http://www.wirelessfoundation.org/ CalltoProtect/index.cfm (accessed October 6, 2005).
21. Computer TakeBack Campaign (2005), http://www.computertakeback.com/about/ index.cfm (accessed October 5, 2005).
22. Association of College and Research Libraries, 13.