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Blockchain for Impact: Blockchain Revolution Global Event Wrap-Up

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Everledger process is also being used for things like recovering rare earth minerals (cobalt, lithium) from batteries, in the sustainability space. Amy Neumann is a social good fanatic who has been working professionally to help create positive change since 1994.

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SOCAP: The Market at the Intersection of Money and Meaning

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A woman named Gail Work stopped by to chat about her new non-toxic green battery company in Silicon Valley called SeaWave Battery. She said that it generates more electricity at a lower cost than lead-acid and lithium ion batteries. She was trolling SOCAP looking for new ways to fund the good work they’re doing.

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

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Dell says that a full life span for a garden-variety lithium-ion laptop battery is 18 to 24 months. This technique works for computers but not for most cell phones, which don't provide a reading on the percentage of the charge on the battery. Lithium-ion batteries are actually pretty benign environmentally.

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Mobile, Voice-Operated Everything, and Security, Oh My! Top Nonprofit Tech for 2016

Tech Soup

Lithium ion battery failures were big again this past year. Lithium ion batteries will continue to power our mobile devices — and continue to catch fire now and then, but not that often. The migrant humanitarian crisis has been rocking governments and dominating NGO humanitarian work for the last two years. The effect?

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

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We're also working with those cities on generating some demonstration projects. So it is highlighting those hypocrisies and working to spread the word and generate more support amongst the public, and to put more consumer and reputational pressure on automakers for them to clean up their act and match their words to their deeds.

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What’s in your social media measurement tool box and why?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” It was always a terrific conversation starter with nonprofit techies because knowing the right tool for the job is important. As I’ve been working on “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” with co-author KD Paine, we’ve come to the chapter on measurement tools.

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