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Green Technology Summit Heads to Europe (and It's Kind Of a Big Deal)

Tech Soup

Jim Lynch is TechSoup's director of green technology (here's the part where I embarrass him — he's also pretty much the man as far as electronics refurbishing and recycling goes). One example of great refurbishing work is Banco Informatico Tecnologico e Biomedico (TechSoup Italia) in Italy.

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Mobile for Good: Trends to Watch at Mobile World Congress

Tech Soup

This week, the world is gearing up for mobile's biggest global tradeshow, Mobile World Congress (MWC). Besides being a launch pad for shiny new gadgets, MWC has also been a forum for green technology news, digital inclusion efforts, low-cost smartphones, and other mobile for good innovations. Image 1: miuet.

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TechSoup’s Refurbished Computer Initiative: You’ve Come A Long Way Baby

Tech Soup

And then the program really got going with a major grant in 2007 from California Emerging Technology Fund. How Green Is Refurbished IT Equipment? Refurbished Computers in the TechSoup Global Network. To be specific, they are our partners in Australia , New Zealand , Germany , France , Italy , India , Poland , and Romania.

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

Have Fun - Do Good

You can use different technologies for these things, as easy or as difficult as you want. So for me, I actually often pick my parents [when writing about technology], because they have dial-up, and they're not very tech-savvy. How can we uplift people out of poverty with this new green boom and not leave some people out.

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