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#Fakecommute: A Ritual for Work-Life Balance When You #WFH

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If we learned anything during 2020, work-life balance is much harder when working from home. Walking as exercise has documented mental and physical benefits. Create a conscious shift from work to life and life to work. Don’t take your phone on your walk or put it into airplane mode if you are using the camera.

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How Cell Phones and Tablets Enable Telework

Tech Soup

To be able to telework, people usually need five things: a computer or tablet, broadband Internet, access to work email, access to work documents, and a phone. The processing power of our mobile phones roughly doubles every 18 months as does storage capacity, as do Internet speeds with the advent of faster 4G and 4G LTE mobile networks.

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The Environmental Case for Remanufactured IT

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According to Williams and Kuehr, adding additional life to computers saves 5 to 20 times more energy than recycling over the computer's life cycle. It's much better for the environment to extend the life of a computer for an extra two or three years than to buy a new one every three to four years. billion humans.

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Walking While Working

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A lot of my work consists of sitting — working on a computer, talking on the phone, or attending meetings or conferences. As Nilofer Merchant points out in this Ted.com talk , people are sitting 9.3 The benefits of walking to “clear your brain” or build relationships is not a new leadership technique.

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Environmental Case for Refurbished IT Equipment

Tech Soup

The Basis for the Environmental Benefits of Refurbished IT. Adding additional life to computers saves 5 to 20 times more energy than recycling over the computer's life cycle. Half the Periodic Table in That PC or Mobile Phone. The green argument for electronics reuse goes beyond Williams and Kuehr, however.

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Technology and the Environment

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Will the move to, for instance, tablet and phone computing be a net positive or negative benefit in terms of resource consumption? And, parenthetically, although it’s not really about the environment, check out this information about Coltan , a necessary ingredient in many electronics, including mobile phones.).

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Environmental Case for Refurbished IT Equipment

Tech Soup

The Basis for the Environmental Benefits of Refurbished IT. According to Williams and Kuehr, adding additional life to computers saves 5 to 20 times more energy than recycling over the computer's life cycle. Half the Periodic Table in That PC or Mobile Phone. But I digress. How Much Does Reuse Save?

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