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Why TechSoup Product Donations and Donors Are Green

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This isn't a comprehensive list of all our donor partners' environmental activities, but this time I'd like to talk about Cisco and Symantec and also about our Green Technology Product Donations. The company is also greening its supply chain. Symantec has formed 18 different Green Teams. Now a bit about us.

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Back to School in Tanzania with a New Windows Multipoint Server Computer Lab

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Jim walked out of there with four refurbished laptops preloaded with Windows Multipoint Server and 16 NComputing thin clients. Energy Conservation Is a Requirement in Africa. Computers are a centerpiece of the school, but they needed super-energy-efficient technology to conserve the scarce electricity. and was off to Tanzania.

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Closing Up Shop Over the Holidays

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This is an update of Anna Jaeger’s great Office Greening for the Holidays: Closing Up Shop. Shut down all non-server computers : Don't leave desktop and laptop computers in sleep mode. Look for those machines around your office that have a little green or red light glowing on them. Green Office GreenTech Green IT'

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Protecting Wild Lands Through Art

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Braided River, a Seattle-based nonprofit publishing company, has undertaken 16 conservation projects to date with just three staff people. 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.

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Protecting Wild Lands Through Art

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Braided River, a Seattle-based nonprofit publishing company, has undertaken 16 conservation projects to date with just three staff people. 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.

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The Environmental Case for Remanufactured IT

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The green argument for electronics reuse goes beyond Williams and Kuehr, however. In his book Natural Capitalism , Paul Hawkin finds that the amount of material that goes into manufacturing a laptop is 4,000 to 1. When you discard a five-pound laptop, you are also throwing away the 20,000 pounds of raw materials it took to make it.

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9 Amazing Organizations Share Their Tech Success

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It's undertaken 16 conservation projects to date with just three staff people. No one would expect to have to protect terminally ill children from hackers, but co-founder Brian Westerman discovered that some of the kids the foundation was helping were being spied on through their laptop cameras. " Braided River.

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