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Technology and the Environment

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OK, well, not so unrepentant or unabashed since I’m writing this post on the varied factors around technology and the environment, and have been thinking about this issue for myself for a long time. There is some argument as to whether or not cloud computing is good or bad for the environment. Just Google it.

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Tech for Good at Mobile World Congress

Tech Soup

If you decide you like it, you can pay to have it published in either the Google Play app store (for Android) or in Apple's App Store. A China-based company, Beijing Bing Ben Technology, is making SIM cards from recyclable materials. You can build and test an app for free. Accessibility. SmartVision. Mobile Green Tech.

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Best Internet Marketing for a Cause 2006

Have Fun - Do Good

View the National Memorial for the Mountains on Google Earth. Among the videos up right now is footage of police dispersing student protestors in China, UCLA police using a taser gun on a student in a library, and video shot by journalist Brad Will during the protests in Oaxaca, right before he was killed. For more info.

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Is Direct Mail Dying or Dead? Hogwash! - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Yes, NGOs can and should be raising more $ online (and here in Greenpeace China we are doing just that) but I have yet to see strong data that supports us shutting off the DM facet just yet. Even if you think your past is safe from change, ask yourself how soon Google will be replaced? My 2 cents. How soon will mail be gone?

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Live Blog: Is Technology Really Good for Human Rights

Amy Sample Ward

That ethos continued until the last three years or so with issues in Burma, Iran, and China. Panelists include: Susan Pointer, Google’s Director of Public Policy & Government Relations. Today, a China official said the internet is a new battlefield without gun powder. Kevin Anderson, blogs editor of the Guardian.

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

Have Fun - Do Good

You don't want to write about everything, because then people won't find you in the same way as when they search on Google about "homelessness issues", or "the environment." It's best to pick a topic that's sort of a niche topic, or. My path was really environmental work, environmental policy work. We don't use that much wood.

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