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Snapshot of Worldwide Electronics Recycling 2013

Tech Soup

According to the International Environmental Technology Center of the United Nations Environment Program. According to Park Young-Woo of the United Nations Environment Program, the Asia-Pacific region now produces more than half of global e-waste. World Snapshot. Most countries of the world (including the U.S.)

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MCON13 Live Blog: Millennial Giving (Alia McKee, Sea Change Strategies and Justin Wheeler, LINK)

NTEN

As an example, an experiment was done to increase hotel towel reuse through changing messages: the traditional ''this many gallons are used to wash towels, please reuse your towel to help us save the environment '' was used as the control message. A third message began '' the majority of guests in this room reuse their towel.''.

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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Even in the tough fiscal environment in Washington, we get good hearings from both Republicans and Democrats. Seoul, South Korea After an almost restful whirlwind of meetings in California, it was off to Seoul for the Eighth Assembly of the World Movement for Democracy. The Marrakesh Treaty. Roger Martin).

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