Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Just after the show, Sean Nicholson from Microsoft sent me a roster of new green Windows PCs , including the Toshiba Portégé Z835 ultrabook that has a mercury free-LED display and halogen-free printed wiring board. Ultrabooks are light, thin, laptop computers with long battery life and that cost under $1,000.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Green Hosting. There are a ton of hosting companies claiming that they are “green hosting.&# Green hosting companies are just like any other hosting company. And they become “green&# by purchasing renewable energy credits, or by purchasing carbon offsets. 6) Would it bring joy and satisfaction to life?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 24, 2012

The big computer makers are not the only ones who offer free and responsible end-of-life recycling of their PCs that have finally reached the end of their usefulness. Our RCI free end-of-life takeback program is really due to our great refurbishment partners, Redemtech and InterConnection. RCI) does as well.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2015

One is for consumers interested in donating laptops and phones. How Individuals Can Donate Laptops and Phones. InterConnection now offers a free mail-in donation program allowing anyone, anywhere in the country to donate a working laptop, smartphone, or tablet by simply mailing it in to Interconnection. Image 1: InterConnection.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 17, 2017

According to Williams and Kuehr, adding additional life to computers saves 5 to 20 times more energy than recycling over the computer's life cycle. It's much better for the environment to extend the life of a computer for an extra two or three years than to buy a new one every three to four years.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2014

We've hit something of a benchmark in this successful program: we've distributed a little over 50,000 refurbished devices through RCI — including laptops, monitors, servers, and tablets. We have also championed reuse or extending the life of electronic devices through refurbishment and repair. Learn how to avoid the junk.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2013

According to Williams and Kuehr, adding additional life to computers saves 5 to 20 times more energy than recycling over the computer's life cycle. It's much better for the environment to extend the life of a computer for an extra two or three years than to buy a new one every three to four years. Image: lungstruck.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Adding additional life to computers saves 5 to 20 times more energy than recycling over the computer's life cycle. It's much better for the environment to extend the life of a computer for an extra two or three years than to buy a new one every three to four years. Half the Periodic Table in That PC or Mobile Phone.

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Tech Soup

JULY 13, 2010

The display and sleep idle features are very important for power savings and battery life. However, you might be able to adjust them so that they better suit your work-style and may even help you extend the life of your battery, if you are using a laptop. The easiest ways to save power and extend battery life are: read more.

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

" Braided River's Seasons of Life and Land book on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge was held up on the floor of the Senate during a debate on a bill proposing drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; the bill was ultimately defeated. Learn More About Our Green Tech Winners. The Last Polar Bear project reached 26.5

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

" Braided River's Seasons of Life and Land book on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge was held up on the floor of the Senate during a debate on a bill proposing drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; the bill was ultimately defeated. Learn More About Our Green Tech Winners. The Last Polar Bear project reached 26.5

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Actually the biggest need was for laptop bags to serve as suitcases for refugees. ” Her bio in the book sums her up: “She shares her life with happy dogs, grumpy cats, box turtles, and some rare humans. Acquiring Technology GreenTech Recycled and Refurbished Computers Green IT refurbished computers'

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

The Refurbished Computer Initiative supplies low-cost, warrantied, refurbished desktop and laptop computers through TechSoup Stock's Web site to nonprofits and libraries anywhere in the US. RCI also offers free end-of-life recycling when you're done with the equipment. Buy your computers new or buy them used?

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Introduce the coffee lover in your life to the benefits and deliciousness of organic, Fair Trade coffee. For example, A Green Mountain Coffee Roasters sampler of Organic Breakfast Blend, Organic French Roast and Organic Sumatran Reserve is $26.95. Give a Child a Laptop, Get a Child a Laptop.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2012

At the time, we had a very limited selection of offers, comprised only of desktops and laptops, most of which had Pentium III processors (you get the idea). How Green Is Refurbished IT Equipment? They’re urging everyone to donate their discarded laptops to InterConnection as part of this work. Using the U.S.

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2015

Our recently completed 2015 Green Tech Success Story Contest winners and finalists are an impressive group, showcasing the broad reach and impact of TechSoup member charities doing environmental work. Maryn Winn, the cofounder and executive director of the Shoreline Solar Project, says: "I can't imagine life without TechSoup."

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

By "post-PC," Jobs meant essentially that computing and Internet use for both work and pleasure will no longer be dominated by PCs, but that there will be an array of smart devices including smartphones, tablet computers, smart TVs, laptops, and even sensing devices in our clothes and cars and other every day items.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

As smartphones mature, we’re doing more on them and less on our laptops. There’s a ton of information on all this, but I still like Time Magazine’s now ancient 2012 article, Your Life Is Fully Mobile , which is part of their larger Mobile Tech Special Edition. And never the twain shall meet.

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AFP Blog

JULY 27, 2009

Slum children go digital in Johannesburg - Passport - Boston.com: "JOHANNESBURG -- With the help of a little green-and-white plastic laptop, two Boston sisters are changing the way a handful of South African slum kids think about their future -- and the world around them.The Kliptown squatter camp, occupying a small corner of Johannesburg’s Soweto, (..)

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2013

How Green Is RCI? The RCI program also has a free end-of-life takeback program , in which anyone with an RCI computer can call and get free shipping when the PC is ready for recycling. They're urging everyone to donate their discarded laptops to InterConnection as part of this work. Using the U.S.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

InterConnection now supplies RCI with warrantied laptops and desktop computers that go to nonprofits and libraries in the United States. InterConnection also runs a free RCI end-of-life Take Back Program , in which nonprofits and libraries that receive RCI computers can have them responsibly recycled at no cost.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2011

I got to talking last week with Kiera Butler of Mother Jones magazine about the best ways to keep the rechargeable batteries in laptops and mobile phones healthy and long-lived. Dell says that a full life span for a garden-variety lithium-ion laptop battery is 18 to 24 months.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Tablet sales are up 53% while laptop and desktop computers are down 11% from the previous year. Green Technology. In hardware life extension news, the grand award winner for software in Popular Science's Best of What's New 2013 this year is a server/software technology called Neverware Juicebox. What this means?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Looks like Zen and the Art of Technology scored the Sony Vaio Picturebook laptops. where you vote for one of the finalists in the NTEN Video Content or watch a machinima about Nonprofits in Second Life. Random Thoughts on Life and Work points us to an excellent resource on wiki adoption patterns. There's also dogooder.tv

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

We have different agencies that come to assist the individuals in our program with things such as job search assistance and other life skills and basic needs. Aside from some of them being used by our staff for internal organization functionality, some of them are used by our program partners.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

In this blog post, I'll compare costs and energy usage for a WMS setup versus a conventional setup in which every user has a laptop or desktop computer. WMS can also use legacy hardware, such as old laptops or desktop computers. A WMS computer system has less upfront hardware costs, as well as less maintenance and software costs.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 16, 2007

I talked to Chris Messina of Citizen Agency and Ivan Storck of SustainableMarketing.com about their green coworking space in San Francisco, Citizen Space for the Big Vision Podcast and have posted a transcript of the interview below. Britt Bravo: What is coworking, and how can you make it green? You can even save your money.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2013

Besides the latest and greatest smartphones and tablets, the conference is a forum for innovation, ranging from green technology to accessibility. For example, you can work on a document in the new Microsoft Office on your Windows 8 laptop, take a break, and then pick up where you left off on your Windows Phone. Mobile Green Tech.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2014

Our goal is to teach everyone how to repair the stuff they own—whether it’s laptops , snowboards , toys , or clothes. Although we’ve been told otherwise, there is no such thing as a “green” cell phone or computer. User-replaceable batteries are key to lengthening the life of electronics like cell phones.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

The venue, a historic theater with small table seating, made it feel more like a cafe except everyone in the audience had a laptop or hand held device for blogging, taking notes, and tweeting. The context at Blogpotomac was the question, "Did turning your Twitter avatar green in support of the Iraniian protests" really mean anything.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

Child's Play Charity targets gamers as a donor community, by Penny Arcade , raising millions mostly to provide games and equipment to child life programs at leading hospitals around the world. DaveTV has a campaign to support the One Laptop Per Child effort. Zonbu has announced a laptop version. Here's why.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

Lotusmedia posts about the RootsCampSL's Smashing Success -- Avatars Against War in Second Life. See Ethan Zuckerman's post offers some thoughts about the content that will be loaded into the One Laptop per Child laptop.) Other blog coverage here. A reminder from Democracy in Action about accidental email spamming.

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