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Microsoft's Ecohero: How Sean Nicholson Is Saving the Earth

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These programs are one big reason why refurbishment is now a significant part of the global recycling industry. This interest may have been kindled when he was an ICT advisor to the government of Namibia before he came to Microsoft. Image: Sean Nicholson. Refurbishing can also be lucrative. spanhidden.

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Conquering a Cruel Continent for a Cause

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TechSoup Global's vice president for Africa David Barnard did. The Namib Desert in Namibia (has the highest sand dunes on earth). Images: David Barnard. At the end of every day, your legs would be like rubber, and you'd be completely and utterly exhausted. Would you do it for charity? spanhidden.

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Traveling Postcards: Interview with Founder, Caroline Lovell

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The cards are unique and beautiful and carry the voices of women (and some men) depicted in images and words and offer compassionate healing for those who both make them, and for those who receive them. I feel that art is able to translate beyond language, and communicate a much larger vision of personal connection. We have come a long way!

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

Tech Soup

According TechSoup’s Global NGO Cloud Survey , cloud storage and back-up is one of the most useful cloud technologies out there. in Namibia is showing the way for providing Internet access in Africa. Find my piece, “ Will Facebook’s Internet.org Bridge the Global Digital Divide? MyDigitalBridge.

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