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

Tech Soup

Jim Lynch is TechSoup's director of green technology (here's the part where I embarrass him — he's also pretty much the man as far as electronics refurbishing and recycling goes). Congress multiple times regarding e-waste policy. TechSoup has a long and proud association with electronics recycling and refurbishment.

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Using Data to Improve Health Policies and Outcomes

Forum One

For health data to impact health outcomes and related policies, the data must be made accessible to policymakers, health advocates, and other interested parties. Making key health data easy to understand can change how people think, how policies are made, and, quite literally, save lives.

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Social Media: Before You Get Started, Get Organized!

Nonprofit Tech for Good

You can schedule tweets and status updates in advance (ideal for nonprofits with international audiences), easily monitor trending topics, and get access to useful statistics about your brand and its buzz on the Social Web in real time. Create a Simple Media Policy. Get Buy-in from Executive Staff.

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How Cell Phones and Tablets Enable Telework

Tech Soup

There is a ton of info on how telework helps the environment and is considered part of green technology. TechSoup: Telework Policies. It generates pie charts and bar graphs that provide managers with a statistical look at how teleworkers are spending their time. Telework and the Environment. Find their report here.

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NRDC Research Study: Is Your Server Room Being Overlooked?

Tech Soup

We hope to get some solid statistics on the server efficiency potential in small business markets, and use that information to inform state policies and utility efficiency programs. We're an environmental nonprofit and don't want your money, and we will not disclose your organization's name or survey responses to anyone.

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Interview with Temra Costa, Author of Farmer Jane: Women Changing the Way We Eat

Have Fun - Do Good

Temra Costa's book, Farmer Jane: Women Changing the Way We Eat features the stories of over 30 women and how they are changing our food system for the better as farmers, educators, mothers, chefs, businesswomen, and policy wonks. Sometimes I'll be eating, and I'll ask, "Are there organic greens?" Is it really local?

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The Future of Mobiles for Nonprofits

NTEN

The Dartmouth Green. One was seeing two coeds standing on either side of the road at the Dartmouth Green talking on a cell phone to each other as I walked by. He and his brother knew we had a "no questions asked" policy of picking them up wherever and whenever they were unable to drive or ride with someone they didn't trust.

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