5G, Fiber Optics the Law

by Katie Singer Around the country, telecom providers have begun mapping their plans to deploy 5G “small” cellular, microwave-emitting sites throughout neighborhoods. Every person deserves to be informed. The largest thing that humanity has built Already the largest thing that … Continue reading

An Electronic Silent Spring – December, 2017 Newsletter from Katie Singer

  An Electronic Silent Spring December, 2017 Newsletter from Katie Singer www.electronicsilentspring.com To safeguard the public, shouldn’t municipalities use existing regulations for deployments of “smart” and telecom infrastructure? by Katie Singer  *  www.electronicsilentspring.com Given the current political climate, creating regulations … Continue reading

An Electronic Silent Spring – October, 2017 Newsletter from Katie Singer

The consequences of “smart”phones & meters by Katie Singer  *  www.electronicsilentspring.com   1. Depletion of natural resources The Internet (including the Internet of Things and the smartgrid) is the largest thing that humanity has built. As it grows, the Internet … Continue reading

An Electronic Silent Spring – September, 2017 Newsletter from Katie Singer

An Electronic Silent Spring September, 2017 Newsletter from Katie Singer www.electronicsilentspring.com Q&A on the way to 5G (5th generation mobile infrastructure) by Janet Newton and Katie Singer To streamline installation of cellular antennas, Santa Fe, New Mexico’s City Council passed … Continue reading

An Electronic Silent Spring – January, 2017 Newsletter from Katie Singer

An Electronic Silent Spring  January, 2017 Newsletter from Katie Singer www.electronicsilentspring.com   Humanity will be divided into two races: people who believe that what is actually evil is good…and the people who must love them. –Rudolf Steiner, 1861-1925   Let’s … Continue reading

An Electronic Silent Spring – September, 2016 Newsletter

An Electronic Silent Spring  September, 2016 Newsletter from Katie Singer www.electronicsilentspring.com What’s constructive use of anyone’s attention? New e-technologies keep getting deployed, proposed and mandated: “small cells” (a new kind of antenna), distributed antenna systems (DAS–co-located on existing utility poles), … Continue reading

An Electronic Silent Spring – July, 2016 Newsletter from Katie Singer

An Electronic Silent Spring  July, 2016 Newsletter from Katie Singer www.electronicsilentspring.com   Twenty years ago, during Bill Clinton’s presidency and Reid Hunt’s chairmanship of the FCC, the U.S. Congress passed the Telecommunications Act of 1996 (the TCA). Section 704 prohibits … Continue reading

An Electronic Silent Spring – June, 2016 Newsletter from Katie Singer

An Electronic Silent Spring  June, 2016 Newsletter from Katie Singer www.electronicsilentspring.com 26 days after the NIH’s National Toxicology Program reported that cell phone radiation definitively causes cancer, FCC Chair Tom Wheeler announced the Spectrum Frontiers Proceeding. On June 20, Wheeler … Continue reading

An Electronic Silent Spring – April, 2016 Newsletter from Katie Singer

An Electronic Silent Spring April, 2016 Newsletter from Katie Singer www.electronicsilentspring.com I end with good news. –Katie Children & Schools The Environmental Health Trust has compiled a spectacular, international list of schools, unions and PTAs that have taken steps to … Continue reading

An Electronic Silent Spring – January, 2016 Newsletter from Katie Singer

An Electronic Silent Spring January, 2016 Newsletter from Katie Singer www.electronicsilentspring.com Check out this coffee shop’s sign: Dr. Al Manville, retired biologist, US Fish and Wildlife, consultant with Wildlife and Habitat Conservation Solutions, has written a comprehensive paper, “Impacts to … Continue reading