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Share Your Green Tech Story and Win a Laptop or Tablet!

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Using TechSoup products or educational resources to stay GREEN ? Interested in winning a free refurbished laptop or tablet? Dell Core Windows 7 Laptop from InterConnection. HP EliteBook 8440p Core i5 Windows 7 Laptop from PCRR. Not sure which products from TechSoup qualify as "green tech"? Interested?

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Share Your Green Tech Story and Win a Laptop or Tablet!

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Using TechSoup products or educational resources to stay GREEN ? Interested in winning a free refurbished laptop or tablet? Dell Core Windows 7 Laptop from InterConnection. HP EliteBook 8440p Core i5 Windows 7 Laptop from PCRR. Not sure which products from TechSoup qualify as "green tech"? Interested?

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Tech Tip: Make Your Next Computer Purchase a Laptop

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Laptops are about four or five times more energy efficient than desktop computers. A laptop computer typically uses 30 to 40 watts of electricity during moderate use. Laptops also have low-energy modes to save on battery usage and energy. If you don't need a big desktop computer, make your next computer purchase a laptop.

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Change the Way You Work with the Lenovo ThinkPad T410 Laptop

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Donor partner Blackbaud has generously donated the T410 laptop, refurbished by partner InterConnection. Not only does the T410 laptop include enhanced productivity and security, the 14.1-inch inch backlit widescreen LED display consumes less power while offering brighter colors, making it easy to go green. Lenovo ThinkPad T410.

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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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Office Greening for the Holidays: Closing Up Shop

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Look for those machines around your office that have a little green light glowing on them. According to Green Home Huddle "Your cell phone charger, iPod charger, laptop charger, etc. keep drawing electricity even if your phone/iPod/laptop/etc isn't charging. If you can, shut them down or unplug them.

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How to Buy (New) Green IT Equipment

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I thought it was probably a good time to update everyone on what's new in the world of buying new, green IT equipment. TreeHugger often covers exotic new green electronic devices in their coverage of the yearly Consumer Electronics Show. Here are a few general precepts on buying new green IT equipment: read more.

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