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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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Veterans Organic Garden: An Off-the-Grid Jobs Program

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When we found out about Lovay Wallace-Singleton's new project to build a solar-powered organic garden in North Carolina, one that also brings rehabilitation and jobs to veterans, we had to talk to her. Solar-Powered Technology and Job Skills Training. Job Placement and Support. for disabled veterans. spanhidden.

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TechSoup Global Goes to Congress (Again)

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The briefing was called "Turning E-Waste into Green." We operate our Refurbished Computer Initiative , which provides reliable, warrantied desktop and laptop computers to U.S. that finds that Federal electronics recycling legislation could create as many as 42,000 direct and indirect new jobs. nonprofits and libraries.

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Is the Used Computer Market Going Away?

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The post-PC era was announced in March 2011 by the late Apple founder and CEO, Steve Jobs, during the launch of the iPad2. Forrester Research has also found that total shipments of desktop and laptop computers will continue to rise through 2015. PC shipments in 2015 will be 52 percent higher than PC shipments in 2010.

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Turning Waste into Beautiful Art

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I'm thrilled to say that one of our winning 2015 Green Tech Success Story Contest submissions is TechSoup member Cary Creative Center , or "C3," an organization working to save materials from the landfill by turning them into beautiful art. " Part of a Movement. About the Success Stories Contest.

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9 Amazing Organizations Share Their Tech Success

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No one would expect to have to protect terminally ill children from hackers, but co-founder Brian Westerman discovered that some of the kids the foundation was helping were being spied on through their laptop cameras. This story was written by Jim Lynch, director of green technology at TechSoup. Norton actually corrected all of that."

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