Technology – TWC Interactive

Heat Pumps to the Rescue

Isaiah Ritzmann April 1, 2022

We have the power to stop war and help solve the climate emergency if we act now. Bill McKibben argues that installing millions of heat pumps in European homes ahead of next winter will dramatically reduce reliance on Russian natural gas, cutting off a key source of Vladmir Putin’s power. Currently oil and gas make up 60% of Russia’s export earnings, and 40% of Europe’s natural gas comes from Russia. Such a project would not only help slow the Russian war machine, but would contribute meaningfully to lowering carbon emissions and addressing the climate emergency. It’s a win-win situation.

Computer Recycling at The Working Centre

Elizabeth Pang June 1, 2015

Computer Recycling (CR) is a Community Tool project providing access to technology. This project started more than fifteen years ago to facilitate the reuse of older computers rather than seeing them end up in a landfill site. The aim is to provide affordable computer services. Included in its offerings are refurbished desktop computers, used monitors, printers, speakers, computer books, RAM, DVD drives, and cables, etc. Come in to browse and find what you are looking for. Repair services are also offered on desktop computers.

Do We Love Our Machines More Than Our Children?

Tony McQuail September 1, 2014

Our current problems stem from our failure to understand and accept that we are biological organisms on a finite planet. We have experienced a brief moment in history when we seemed able to step outside those constraints and that has coloured our assumptions of what is real and normal. In a century we have burned through millions of years worth of accumulated biomass in the form of fossil fuels. Our beliefs in economic growth and mechanical progress rest on this conflagration. It seems intuitively obvious to me that we cannot sustain these levels of energy use with renewable sources.

The Air We Breathe – Reflections on The Humanizing of Technologies

Paul Schwartzentruber June 2, 2014

There are many feelings we have about the technologies that surround us, those with which — and through which – we now interact daily and multifariously with the world and others: frustration, consolation, anxiety, excitement, exhaustion, relief, release, puzzlement, fear and hope. The feelings cut across the whole range of human experience and they are part of a long and still cascading history moving at great speed in many directions toward unknown futures.

Software Freedom Day

Paul Nijjar September 1, 2013

Have you ever done a Google search? Looked something up on Wikipedia? Used a Macintosh computer or an Android phone? Updated your status on Facebook? If you have done any of these things, then you have – directly or indirectly – benefited from the existence of “Free Software”.

Free software (also known as open source, software libre,or FLOSS) are computer programs that anybody is legally permitted to use, study, improve, and share.

Open Source Software: The Digital Gift Economy

Paul Nijjar September 1, 2009

On September 19th Computer Recycling is participating in an international celebration called “Software Freedom Day”. Although the name is awkward and misleading – we are neither celebrating an end to computer programs from our lives nor the triumph of our robotic overlords – we think the idea is worthy, and that there is a lot to celebrate.

Urban Sprawl and Public Transit

Mary Ann Wasilka June 1, 2000

I am a member of a Local Transit Users’ Group. This group was formed as an initiative of the Rides to Work Committee, which endeavoured to address the transportation barriers that exist for low income or unemployed workers.

Self-Directed Computer Training Project

The Working Centre December 1, 1999

Every day at The Working Centre people are learning about computers. Sometimes it’s someone who has never used a computer before. Sometimes it’s someone who is learning a new formatting technique. Sometimes it’s someone who knows a lot about computers but is learning about how others learn about computers.

Community Voice Mail

The Working Centre December 1, 1999

Currently we provide a Phone Message Service for about 400 people. On a limited income the cost of a personal telephone is often not realistic; during times of transition having a reliable place to receive messages is often a challenge; if the person who is at home doesn’t understand English very well, it is difficult to receive accurate messages. And yet, in the struggle to find work, getting accurate messages can be critical.

The Excessway 7 Fact Sheet

Michael Parkinson December 1, 1998

The Ministry of Transportation is planning to build a new expressway between Kitchener and Guelph to replace the existing Highway 7 route. The expressway will have four lanes, controlled access, and will be designed for 120 km/hr (the posted speed will be 100 km/hr).

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