Go green and give up your cell phone?

by Kallie Szczepanski

How would you describe your cell phone? Handy, cute, multi-functional, indispensable? What about environmentally harmful? We don't often think about it, but both cell phones and the towers that transmit cell signals c...read more

by EMSalem

Cell phones are a part of life and they are tiny but powerful little messenger systems that do great things for their users and at the same time have the potential for harm. They are small and take up little room and yet w...read more

by Michael Swain

The real problem with mobile phones (or cell phones) is not the phones themselves nor what they have done, or might do to our environment. Of course both ecologically and in other ways, perhaps socially for instance, p...read more

by Ardeth Baxter

Cell phone usage has grown by quantum leaps since 1977, when cell phones were first tested in Chicago. It is a multibillion-dollar-a-year industry, with hundreds of millions of customers worldwide. There is no question t...read more

by Colette Georgii

Cell Phone Use Is Increasingly Becoming an Environmental Hazard Today more than ever people are using cell phones and discarding them in record number which is posing a threat to the environment. Cell phones have becom...read more

by Vincent J.D. Grant

Cell phones have become an important part of our lives for most of us. As a communication tool, we are able to connect with our human environment which in this case means fellow human beings of course. Yet so busy with our...read more

by Kamna Arora

Every invention has its negative effects on the environment. Technological advancements in telecommunications are also presenting hazards for the surroundings. Cell phones have been one of the fastest growing industries in...read more

by Barry Williams

Let me explain a few things to you. I grew up in the generation where to go green meant you got dressed up for St Patrick's day . You pretended you were Irish ,told atrocious Irish jokes with an appalling imitation Irish a...read more

by Theresa Myburgh

When I read the title 'Go green and give up your cell phone?', I thought 'what absolute rubbish!'. I am an Honours student in the school of Environment Studies. I have both academic experience and knowledge on environmenta...read more

by Aldo Bonincontro

For what regards me, YES, it's surely possible although in Italy, my Country, I'm a real rarity among a mass of cell phone addicted, as Italians are today. In fact, I still don't have and I will never have a cell phone an...read more

by Mark Murphy

Cell phones are often touted as great tools to enhance businesses, add value to relationships and have even saved lives. People the world over have had a love affair with the cell phone since the first one hit the market i...read more

by Alicia Black

Now a days everyone has one. It is the latest trend in communication. We live and breathe through our cell phone. We've heard the rumors that cell phones cause cancer, but does it really? And what other effects does cell p...read more

by Dawn England

So many people think it is necessary to own the newest and most expensive cell phone. Why get a new one if the one you have works just fine? It is like an epidemic sweeping our nation and I call it "Cell Phone Fever". What...read more

by Quintin Du Plessis

The environment... I am not exactly sure what that refers to, I will asume that we are discussing the biosphere. In my opinion cell phones have a very positive effect on the environment. Let me explain. The value of inform...read more

by Ian Smith

No one seriously claims mobile phone aerials enhance the environment, and their peculiar squat steel shapes poking out of forests and the tops of hills do show that we no longer live within the landscape, but impose upon i...read more

by Matthew Tyler Funk

Cell phone towers kill millions of migratory songbirds every year and every year millions of the barely-used cell phones themselves end up in our landfills, poisoning the environment with ever more toxic heavy-metals. C...read more

by Jeremy Staffeld

The Cellular Revolution has certainly impacted the world as millions of people now frequently use cell phones. Because of this technology being so new and so rapidly changing with new trends and improved features, cell pho...read more