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What Is Green IT? Take the Greener IT Challenge

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Green technology, particularly green IT has been one of TechSoup’s missions for many years. Green IT Defined. I’m fond of the overly clever antimetabole we came up with a few years ago: green IT uses technology to reduce environmental impact and reduces the environmental impact of technology. Green webhosting.

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Why TechSoup Product Donations and Donors Are Green

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We like to feature their corporate social responsibility efforts this time of year, especially what they're doing to improve our environment. The company is also greening its supply chain. Symantec: Focusing Even More on the Environment in 2015. Symantec's primary CSR focus in the coming year is the environment.

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Go Green with Video, Audio, and Web Conferencing

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Many of us still travel a lot to attend meetings, but we can be certain that rising fuel prices are also a fact of life. Travel also creates huge carbon costs to the environment. In fact, one of the most significant ways that IT can help the environment is that it enables us to meet with each other online or in "virtual meetings."

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RCI Free End-Of-Life Takeback Program

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The big computer makers are not the only ones who offer free and responsible end-of-life recycling of their PCs that have finally reached the end of their usefulness. Just like Dell and HP, we want make sure that our RCI computers are as environmentally responsible as possible at no extra cost to nonprofits and libraries.

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The Environmental Case for Remanufactured IT

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At TechSoup, we love to supply good, solid, low-cost refurbished or remanufactured IT equipment to nonprofits and libraries. They wrote Computers and the Environment: Understanding and Managing Their Impacts. The green argument for electronics reuse goes beyond Williams and Kuehr, however. billion humans.

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Environmental Case for Refurbished IT Equipment

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One of our missions at TechSoup Global is to supply low-cost refurbished IT equipment to nonprofits and libraries. 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. The Basis for the Environmental Benefits of Refurbished IT.

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Environmental Case for Refurbished IT Equipment

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One of our missions at TechSoup Global is to supply low-cost refurbished IT equipment to nonprofits and libraries. Adding additional life to computers saves 5 to 20 times more energy than recycling over the computer's life cycle. The green argument for electronics reuse goes beyond Williams and Kuehr, however.

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