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The Environmental Case for Remanufactured IT

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At TechSoup, we love to supply good, solid, low-cost refurbished or remanufactured IT equipment to nonprofits and libraries. The green argument for electronics reuse goes beyond Williams and Kuehr, however. When you discard a five-pound laptop, you are also throwing away the 20,000 pounds of raw materials it took to make it.

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Environmental Case for Refurbished IT Equipment

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One of our missions at TechSoup Global is to supply low-cost refurbished IT equipment to nonprofits and libraries. The green argument for electronics reuse goes beyond Williams and Kuehr, however. Paul Hawkin, in his book, Natural Capitalism , finds that the volume of material that goes into manufacturing a laptop is 4,000 to 1.

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Environmental Case for Refurbished IT Equipment

Tech Soup

One of our missions at TechSoup Global is to supply low-cost refurbished IT equipment to nonprofits and libraries. The green argument for electronics reuse goes beyond Williams and Kuehr, however. Paul Hawkin, in his book, Natural Capitalism , finds that the volume of material that goes into manufacturing a laptop is 4,000 to 1.

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Protecting Wild Lands Through Art

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A grant from Lannan Foundation allowed Braided River to donate 10,000 copies of the book to libraries and indigenous communities across the country. The high production value of Braided River books is due to staff members' adept use of Adobe Creative Suite applications via their TechSoup donation. Large-Format Photography.

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Protecting Wild Lands Through Art

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A grant from Lannan Foundation allowed Braided River to donate 10,000 copies of the book to libraries and indigenous communities across the country. The high production value of Braided River books is due to staff members' adept use of Adobe Creative Suite applications via their TechSoup donation. Large-Format Photography.

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Is the Used Computer Market Going Away?

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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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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

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Tablet sales are up 53% while laptop and desktop computers are down 11% from the previous year. Green Technology. This virtual desktop solution connects to a nonprofit or school’s existing computer system very quickly and allows older computers to run Windows 7 and Windows applications as well as new PCs. What this means?

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