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Green Technology Summit Heads to Europe (and It's Kind Of a Big Deal)

Tech Soup

Million Ton Problem. The scope of the problem makes efforts to organize and strengthen the electronics refurbishment industry in Europe a pretty big deal. Congress multiple times regarding e-waste policy. How times have changed! In 2012, EU countries discarded 10.9 million tons of electronic waste. and Canada.

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Solutionary Women: Heddy Nam

Have Fun - Do Good

This project will tackle big questions such as: What are the most pressing human rights problems in our world? They quickly learned that the politics of genocide intervention dictate that it’s not a problem worth prioritizing because it doesn’t serve anyone’s political or economic interests. They would rather opt for MTV.

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