News March 1, 2008 Program available the 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment, to be held May 19-21 in San Francisco The program is available for the event and registration is open. Follow this link for more information (external website). November 1, 2007 Arizona State University group receives NSF grant to study international reuse and recycling of computers How can societies around the world manage the end-of-life of computers and other electronics so as to mitigate environmental impacts but at the same time gain social and economic benefits from reuse and recycling? This is the central question addressed in a new project at Arizona State University supported by the National Science Foundation. The project is titled “Assessing and managing the sustainability of global reverse supply chains: the case of personal computers” and launches in October 2007 to run for three years. Click here to view more about the project. October 1, 2007 Call for Papers: the 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment, to be held May 19-21 in San Francisco The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has been organizing this event annually since 1993. It is the premier event for presenting and learning about environmental topics and sustainability as they pertain to Information Technology, both in terms of electronics products and adoption of IT by business and society. Authors from industry, academia, recyclers and consultants are invited to submit papers describing research, applications, tools, and case studies. The deadline for abstracts is November 10, 2007. Follow this link for more information (external website).