Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2011

This month, David Moschella of Computer Sciences Corporation touched off the latest flap in a recurrent debate on what the most important part of green IT is. It should be dealing with e-waste and getting some decent electronics recycling in place worldwide.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

You move tasks from the idea phase to various stages of in-progress and finally to completion. It is so much easier to start out with tools and processes than to wait for your nonprofit to grow to the point that everything is unwieldy and then try to get a chaotic environment under control. And, it’s free!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Cara Matteliano, VP of Programs, gave a presentation about three different initiatives designed to create the environment for local news including GrowWNY.org. The project is a hyperlocal source of information about living green–powered by network of environmental activists, nonprofits, and grassroots organizations.

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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. It is used up in the production phase. But I digress.

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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. It is used up in the production phase.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 17, 2017

They wrote Computers and the Environment: Understanding and Managing Their Impacts. It's much better for the environment to extend the life of a computer for an extra two or three years than to buy a new one every three to four years. The energy is used up in the production phase. billion humans.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 2, 2007

My two closest peers in California have both gotten MacArthurs (Victoria Hale this year and David Green two years ago). Under our new CTO, Patrick Ball (see my last President's letter), we are building a tech team to work on our incredibly varied list of projects in literacy, human rights and the environment.

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