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How to Get Long Life Out of Laptop and Cell Phone Batteries

Tech Soup

I got to talking last week with Kiera Butler of Mother Jones magazine about the best ways to keep the rechargeable batteries in laptops and mobile phones healthy and long-lived. Dell says that a full life span for a garden-variety lithium-ion laptop battery is 18 to 24 months.

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Women's Global Green Action Network: An Interview with Melinda Kramer

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So our first exchange that we did with Global Exchange was called "Transformative Advocacy in Bolivia." We brought a group of ten environmental justice lawyers from throughout North America to work in partnership with grassroots women leaders in Bolivia, with the focus on sustainable agriculture and food security issues.

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

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I'm a complete magazine and media addict. What really pushed me over the edge was, day after day waking up and not seeing this magazine on the newsstands, not hearing it when I turned on the radio, and also the voices of the women that I had met was my biggest instigator. Our first magazine was published in 2004.

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Using Photography to Change the World: An Interview with Paola Gianturco

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What I wanted to learn next, because I had lived my working life inside of large corporations, was about woman entrepreneurs. It, however, took every experience and every friend I have been able to gather in all of my life to do these projects. I sallied forth, not being a professional photographer, not being a professional writer.