The wiki is intended to help answer these questions, and to make it easier to choose sustainable options.

⚡️ What cool stuff could I build that will be helpful / less harmful? How can I use my passion to help solve big problems (even in little chunks)?

→ **Project ideas for every interest!**

⚡️ Why am I designing a new thing, anyway?

• To solve a need:
  • Is there an existing project that does what I want / care about, rather than manufacturing something new? Could I improve upon it?
  • Is there a low-tech solution? (Like rumble strips!)
  • Or something I can repurpose? ("The greenest phone is the one already in your pocket.")
• Learning new techniques: Project ideas (again)!

⚡️ What sustainable materials, processes, power sources, and so forth can I use in my project?

→ Get thee to the Building Hardware section!

⚡️ If I have a hardware business, how can I run that sustainably – from the website to the packaging and shipping?

→ See the Business section!

⚡️ In general, how can we employ Reduce, Reuse, Repair, Recycle (and even Rot!) to reduce waste and environmental damage?

→ These are the questions the whole catalogue covers, for electronics and beyond. :)

⚡️ The big one: What impact can we, as individuals, actually have?

Well… The climate situation isn't necessarily "our" fault – but fixing it is our responsibility. (Or rather, it's a POWER we have!)

Most of us don't have a huuuuge impact on how we got here, as various studies have found...

• World's richest 1% responsible for 50% of emissions
• Just 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions

In fact, the "carbon footprint" was popularized by BP – British Petroleum – as a way of shifting responsibility for this stuff onto the individual.

However, electronics manufacturing has an outsized effect on global health.

We have an incredible pool of genius that we can apply to help solve this problem!

• Some of us may work at big companies, and be able to influence the culture even if the company doesn’t build something physical. Think about sustainable travel options, event management (where does the extra food go?), remote work, and more.
• Some may make scientific breakthroughs in clean tech.