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Cheap, Easy, and Underutilized Online Communication for Nonprofits

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kWh lithium-ion battery pack. In Germany, for example, according to the German Federal Statistical Office, 6 of every 10 people in the workforce commute by car. A separate air cooling system ensures a constant thermal environment in the battery compartment. On average, 45.8% drive less than 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) and 16.2%

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SOCAP: The Market at the Intersection of Money and Meaning

Tech Soup

She said that it generates more electricity at a lower cost than lead-acid and lithium ion batteries. These are the people behind the great nonprofit Story of Stuff animated environmental videos. This online service is a way to direct people interested in your cause to where they can buy things and support your cause.

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Interview with Jodie Van Horn of Freedom from Oil and Plug-in Bay Area

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When this program sprang up, Rainforest Action Network, had been involved in campaigns surrounding the crushing of the EV1 a decade ago, which happened here in California -- with the car mandate -- many people have now seen Who Killed The Electric Car , and it goes into explaining that story quite well.

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iFixit’s Basic Phone Repairs that Most of Us Can Do

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But at iFixit , we talk a lot about a fourth R—one that people often forget: Repair. But repair-unfriendly policies certainly don’t make sense to me: those policies hurt customers and they hurt the environment. In the last 10 years, iron ore production has increased by 180%, cobalt by 165%, and lithium by 125%.

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