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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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This isn't a comprehensive list of all our donor partners' environmental activities, but this time I'd like to talk about Cisco and Symantec and also about our Green Technology Product Donations. The company is also greening its supply chain. Symantec has formed 18 different Green Teams. Now a bit about us.

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Pottsboro Area Library: The Winner of TechSoup’s February Success Story Digital Connector Challenge

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Pottsboro Area Library in Texas. We of course got lots of great stories, and our winner is the Pottsboro Area Library. When librarian Dianne Connery came to the library a few years ago, she found a classic small town library situated in a converted post office building with the requisite institutional green paint job.

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Go Green with Video, Audio, and Web Conferencing

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ReadyTalk is available to qualifying nonprofits, foundations, and libraries on TechSoup for an administrative fee of $45 for a one-year subscription. Citrix GoToMeeting is available to qualifying nonprofits, foundations, and libraries on TechSoup for an administrative fee of $280 for a one-year subscription.

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La Conner Regional Library: Windows MultiPoint Server Case Study

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Basically, it allows one computer to serve several people in a lab or library at very low cost and with minimum maintenance. La Conner Regional Library was one of our test sites. It is a small, rural library that serves 5,000 people in the Skagit Valley in northern Washington State. She became the library tech person by default.

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La Conner Regional Library: Windows MultiPoint Server Case Study

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Basically, it allows one computer to serve several people in a lab or library at very low cost and with minimum maintenance. La Conner Regional Library was one of our test sites. It is a small, rural library that serves 5,000 people in the Skagit Valley in northern Washington State. She became the library tech person by default.

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What Are Social Enterprises, Anyway?

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Van Jones , founder of the grassroots think tank Rebuild The Dream , CNN contributor, and author of the visionary The Green Collar Economy , is one. She turned one of the big regional Goodwills into a thriving green organization. TechSoup is now helping to improve technology for charities and libraries in 40 countries.

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