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350.org Is Greening the Planet with Lean, Green IT

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In a time when climate change and developing the green economy are somewhat passé, nonprofits have not given up on the mission. Find out how they're greening the planet and using the leanest greenest IT possible. His 1989 book The End of Nature was the first book to warn the general public about the threat of global warming.

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350.org Is Greening the Planet with Lean, Green IT

Tech Soup

In a time when climate change and developing the green economy are somewhat passé, nonprofits have not given up on the mission. Find out how they're greening the planet and using the leanest greenest IT possible. His 1989 book The End of Nature was the first book to warn the general public about the threat of global warming.

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Green Side of Cloud Computing Campaign Wrap-Up: Cloud Basics

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In our quest to build a solid foundation for nonprofits and libraries to understand how cloud computing is likely to affect us, we have now completed our GreenTech Initiative Green Side of Cloud Computing campaign. Our final offering of the campaign is an article entitled Cloud Basics for Nonprofits and Libraries.

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11 Highlights from BlogHer '11

Have Fun - Do Good

Photo by Green LA Girl ) 2. with Gwen Bell As I mentioned in my post, Taking Back Your Time: Is Unplugging the New Green? I think that unplugging and limiting internet and tech use is an upcoming cultural trend, so I was thrilled to see that one of the sessions was Unplug, Unfriend, Unfollow, Unwind: Is That Sacrilege?

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Majora Carter’s Eco-Entrepreneurship

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Majora realized that creating green projects and jobs empowers communities to see themselves in a different light, and that beautiful things happen in neighborhoods where people feel invested in their own economic and environmental well being. As a pragmatic idealist, Majora acknowledges that asking companies to do good can only go so far.

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Paperless Choice Challenge: Submission Deadline September 15

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And it also promotes a way of working advocated by Beth Kanter and Allison Fine's new book, The Networked Nonprofit: Connecting with Social Media to Drive Change. Tags: Donors Donors Fundraising Green Office GreenTech Online Fundraising Online Fundraising Using the Web and Internet.

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Chuuk, formerly known as Truk

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Internet is really expensive. We had good discussions about how to extend Internet around to different schools, and apparently they are talking to the Green WiFi/Meraki folks about a mesh network (which I think would be well suited to Chuuk). The government offices we visited were without electrical power.