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5 Reasons Why Your Nonprofit Should Care About Cloud Computing

TechImpact

Mail, and Google Docs are all examples of cloud-based applications, also known as software as a service (SaaS). When using a cloud-based email system from your laptop for example, your machine is not doing any of the raw computations, it is simply displaying the results of computations that are happening elsewhere. Green benefits.

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The Environmental Case for Remanufactured IT

Tech Soup

They wrote Computers and the Environment: Understanding and Managing Their Impacts. It's much better for the environment to extend the life of a computer for an extra two or three years than to buy a new one every three to four years. The green argument for electronics reuse goes beyond Williams and Kuehr, however.

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Environmental Case for Refurbished IT Equipment

Tech Soup

The scientific basis for the environmental case for refurbished IT equipment is primarily from Dr. Eric Williams of Rochester Institute of Technology in his book, co-authored with Ruediger Kuehr, Computers and the Environment, Understanding and Managing Their Impacts. Half the Periodic Table in That PC or Mobile Phone. Image: lungstruck.

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Environmental Case for Refurbished IT Equipment

Tech Soup

The scientific basis for the environmental case for refurbished IT equipment is primarily from Dr. Eric Williams of Rochester Institute of Technology in his book, co-authored with Ruediger Kuehr, Computers and the Environment, Understanding and Managing Their Impacts. Half the Periodic Table in That PC or Mobile Phone.

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How Cell Phones and Tablets Enable Telework

Tech Soup

As smartphones mature, we’re doing more on them and less on our laptops. Microsoft with its Surface line of tablets that are a hybrid of laptops and tablets, is working hard to transform tablets from personal entertainment devices to business productivity machines. Telework and the Environment.

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Is the Used Computer Market Going Away?

Tech Soup

By "post-PC," Jobs meant essentially that computing and Internet use for both work and pleasure will no longer be dominated by PCs, but that there will be an array of smart devices including smartphones, tablet computers, smart TVs, laptops, and even sensing devices in our clothes and cars and other every day items.

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Green Coworking: An Interview with Chris Messina and Ivan Storck of Citizen Space

Have Fun - Do Good

I talked to Chris Messina of Citizen Agency and Ivan Storck of SustainableMarketing.com about their green coworking space in San Francisco, Citizen Space for the Big Vision Podcast and have posted a transcript of the interview below. Britt Bravo: What is coworking, and how can you make it green?

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