How green are my Apples? My new iPhone

(770 words)

I recently tweeted the line about my hopes that one day I’d live to see a cellphone tower constructed entirely out of old cellphones. 



It bugs me that our phones have become like e-Kleenex. We use them momentarily and then discard them.



So I’m feeling especially guilty this week since both my daughter and I got new iPhones. Josie’s earbud portal on her 8-month-old phone was