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Office Greening for the Holidays: Closing Up Shop

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Look for those machines around your office that have a little green light glowing on them. According to Green Home Huddle "Your cell phone charger, iPod charger, laptop charger, etc. keep drawing electricity even if your phone/iPod/laptop/etc isn't charging. If you can, shut them down or unplug them.

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Office Greening for the Holidays: Closing Up Shop

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Update: This post was originally published in December 2008, but since it holds lots of useful information for closing your office over a holiday break, we wanted to update it and put it at the top of our list for the 2009 holiday. Look for those machines around your office that have a little green light glowing on them.

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Is 2012 The Year of the Ultrabook?

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Just after the show, Sean Nicholson from Microsoft sent me a roster of new green Windows PCs , including the Toshiba Portégé Z835 ultrabook that has a mercury free-LED display and halogen-free printed wiring board. Ultrabooks are light, thin, laptop computers with long battery life and that cost under $1,000.

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Protecting Wild Lands Through Art

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She explained that the publishing industry changed drastically around 2008 during the economic recession. We are delighted to honor TechSoup member Braided River as a winner of our 2015 Green Tech Success Story Contest. Learn More About Our Green Tech Winners. Images: Braided River. spanhidden.

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Protecting Wild Lands Through Art

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She explained that the publishing industry changed drastically around 2008 during the economic recession. We are delighted to honor TechSoup member Braided River as a winner of our 2015 Green Tech Success Story Contest. Learn More About Our Green Tech Winners. Our first-place winner was Boulder Food Rescue.

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Have E-Waste? Consider Best Buy

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In June of 2008, we posted information about US consumer electronics retailer, Best Buy, starting a pilot program to collect discarded consumer electronic devices at some of their locations in the United States. Tags: Green Office GreenTech Hardware Recycled & Refurbished Computers.

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Is the Used Computer Market Going Away?

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By "post-PC," Jobs meant essentially that computing and Internet use for both work and pleasure will no longer be dominated by PCs, but that there will be an array of smart devices including smartphones, tablet computers, smart TVs, laptops, and even sensing devices in our clothes and cars and other every day items.