Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

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. Green Hosting.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 28, 2013

Jim Shemaria from Grace Ministries International walked in to Interconnection in Seattle and asked for a 20-station computer lab that he could fit in his luggage and take with him on the plane to a school in Africa. Jim walked out of there with four refurbished laptops preloaded with Windows Multipoint Server and 16 NComputing thin clients.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2013

The scientific basis for the environmental case for refurbished IT equipment is primarily from Dr. Eric Williams of Rochester Institute of Technology in his book, co-authored with Ruediger Kuehr, Computers and the Environment, Understanding and Managing Their Impacts. Half the Periodic Table in That PC or Mobile Phone. Image: lungstruck.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

The scientific basis for the environmental case for refurbished IT equipment is primarily from Dr. Eric Williams of Rochester Institute of Technology in his book, co-authored with Ruediger Kuehr, Computers and the Environment, Understanding and Managing Their Impacts. Half the Periodic Table in That PC or Mobile Phone.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

The briefing was called "Turning E-Waste into Green." We operate our Refurbished Computer Initiative , which provides reliable, warrantied desktop and laptop computers to U.S. We co-founded and organized the International Computer Refurbishers Summit for many years. nonprofits and libraries. are reused.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

Call us what you will, the International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts that by 2015, a bit over 37 percent of the total global workforce will be made up of mobile workers. As smartphones mature, we’re doing more on them and less on our laptops. Telework and the Environment. It’s a really big part of our world.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 16, 2007

I talked to Chris Messina of Citizen Agency and Ivan Storck of SustainableMarketing.com about their green coworking space in San Francisco, Citizen Space for the Big Vision Podcast and have posted a transcript of the interview below. Britt Bravo: What is coworking, and how can you make it green?

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