No organization has done more than SVTC to call attention to and improve the environmental health and safety practices of the global electronics industry. Since 1982 SVTC has worked with hundreds of communities and companies locally and around the world to raise the environmental consciousness and performance of the high-tech sector.

Twenty years of activism has expanded awareness of high-tech toxic legacy and moved the industry to eliminate some chemical toxins and begin to adopt more sustainable practices. But the rapid changes and the global growth of high-tech pose new challenges that SVTC is rising to meet.

We have new enthusiasm for our mission to advance sustainable and cleaner production in the high-tech industry, to actively promote environmental justice not just in Silicon Valley but around the world, and to significantly expand our national and international organizing efforts around high-tech hazards.

The Clean Computer Campaign. Launched in 1997, this campaign works to clean-up the life-cycle of computer manufacturing and promote environmentally sustainable development, extended producer responsibility and corporate and government accountability.

Sustainable Water Program is a multi-year effort to eliminate toxic contaminants -- such as mercury and PCBs -- from streams and groundwater and to promote water conservation and closed loop systems in the South Bay.

International Campaign for Responsible Technology, an international network launched by SVTC in 1992 to ensure that high-tech development is sustainable and non-polluting.

Health and Environmental Justice Project is a partnership to identify, reduce and prevent peoples' exposure to toxic chemicals in relation to the high tech industry in Silicon Valley. Areas of development include worker and community empowerment, health data collection and management and cleaner production methods. SVTC was awarded a four-year grant from the National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences. This project will be conducted in collaboration with the Santa Clara Center for Occupational Safety and Health (SCCOSH), the Santa Clara County Health Department and UC-Berkeley researchers.