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What Is Green IT? Take the Greener IT Challenge

Tech Soup

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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Happy Earth Day! 7 Ways to Green Your Technology

NTEN

Here are just a few of the ways you can green your IT, or use IT to green your organization this Earth Day: Conduct a green office audit. Print green. Join the Green IT Consortium on LinkedIn. With web-based software, web conferencing, laptops, and smart phones, it's easier than ever to skip the office entirely.

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350.org Is Greening the Planet with Lean, Green IT

Tech Soup

In a time when climate change and developing the green economy are somewhat passé, nonprofits have not given up on the mission. Find out how they're greening the planet and using the leanest greenest IT possible. They have no infrastructure beyond that, which is why cloud computing is regarded as green IT.

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Why TechSoup Product Donations and Donors Are Green

Tech Soup

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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350.org Is Greening the Planet with Lean, Green IT

Tech Soup

In a time when climate change and developing the green economy are somewhat passé, nonprofits have not given up on the mission. Find out how they're greening the planet and using the leanest greenest IT possible. They have no infrastructure beyond that, which is why cloud computing is regarded as green IT.

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What is Green IT?

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

For a couple of years now we've been seeing talk of Green IT, and as early as 2007 management consulting giants Gartner and McKinsey were addressing Green issues as a major issue facing IT managers. Techsoup offers some suggestions for Greening the smaller workplace.

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Back to School in Tanzania with a New Windows Multipoint Server Computer Lab

Tech Soup

Jim walked out of there with four refurbished laptops preloaded with Windows Multipoint Server and 16 NComputing thin clients. Grace Ministries International's Jim Shemaria picking up the Virtual Computer Package in Seattle. Interconnection supplied: One refurbished i7 laptop. Three refurbished i5 laptops.