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Green IT Accreditation Goes International

Tech Soup

EPEAT is essentially the only green IT product accreditation program in the world. The big green IT news this week is that the program has now expanded to 40 countries (PDF) worldwide including Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Taiwan, and the 27 countries of the European Union.

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ITWorks & SAP America: Connecting Young Adults To Bright Futures

TechImpact

Upon arriving the students were greeted in the lobby and told about SAP’s Green (LEED certified) building, followed by a tour of the Data Center and Mission Control Center, where a team handles high priority customer trouble tickets. And to end the day, a presentation on mobile apps and software demos was given.

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Vietnam and Indonesia Join TechSoup Asia’s Growing Family

Tech Soup

Indonesia has the world’s second highest level of biodiversity (after Brazil). Its eight major islands (in terms of landmass) are Sumatra, Java, Kalimantan (Borneo), Sulawesi (Celebes), and Irian Jaya (the western half of Papua New Guinea). Its explosion is considered to be the loudest sound ever heard in modern history.

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Writing for Change Conference: An Interview with Elizabeth Pomada

Have Fun - Do Good

I mean, San Francisco is now a green city, and that's right from the heart of Mayor Newsom. And being green is also part of saving the planet, saving the earth. We have Angus Wright , who does books about the political environment in Brazil and saving the rainforest for the world. Britt: How are you making the event green?

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Cybersecurity: What All Nonprofits Need to Know

The Modern Nonprofit

So, HTTPS and a green lock showing don’t alone prove that the website is legitimate, but a lack of HTTPS is a dead giveaway that inputting any sensitive information into this site is unsafe! Keep in mind, hackers can buy security certificates, too.

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Fair Trade Certified: An Interview with Paul Rice of TransFair USA

Have Fun - Do Good

PR: I was in Brazil a few months ago, and in this village in Brazil there are about eighty or ninety families that are all very small coffee growers. It's about three hundred dollars a year to send a kid to high school in this region of Brazil. And when we say small in the coffee world, we're talking about one or two acres.

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Snapshot of Worldwide Electronics Recycling 2013

Tech Soup

Four countries in Latin America now have e-waste laws or rules: Costa Rica, Colombia, Peru, and Brazil. Brazil is particularly active with its Brazilian Association of Electric and Electronic Recycling Companies and its emerging comprehensive e-scrap policy with a target of 17 percent by 2018. Latin America.