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Next To Silicon Valley, Nonprofits Draw Youth Of Color Into Tech - capradio.org

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Next To Silicon Valley, Nonprofits Draw Youth Of Color Into Tech - capradio.org : To counter that, a growing number of nonprofits are popping up in Oakland to help young blacks and Latinos break into the industry. I''m trying to do an outline," she says, staring at a page on her laptop that has a lot of links.

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Does the Used IT Market Have a Future?

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During the intervening two years, we have entered the “post-PC” era in which laptop and desktop computers are being superseded by tablets, phones and other mobile devices. And indeed sales of new PCs and laptops are declining. Refurbishers in emerging markets will start to see a higher supply of laptops for refurbishment.

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Is the Used Computer Market Going Away?

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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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Feeding the Hungry in the Land of Plenty

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The prototype of the software is already being used in five cities, including Denver, Colorado and Oakland, California. Each of our three winners received either a refurbished laptop or tablet from our great Refurbished Computer Initiative partners: CDI , InterConnection , and PC Rebuilders and Recyclers. Results That Matter.

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

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The organization has a staff of 40 across three offices (Washington DC, New York City, and Oakland, California). They have an integrated, cloud-based IT system in which everyone has laptops and merely needs some way to get to the Internet to plug in to 350.org. " Jon was very matter of fact.

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

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Washington DC, New York City, and Oakland, California). They have an integrated, cloud-based IT system in which everyone has laptops and merely needs some way to get to the Internet to plug in to 350.org. The organization has a staff of 40 worldwide and also three offices in the U.S. " Jon was very matter of fact.

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What Do You Think of Carbon Offsets?

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To calculate how much carbon dioxide my flight will produce, I entered where I was flying to and from (Oakland to Washington DC) and discovered that the round trip flight is 4,801 miles that produces "personal emissions" equaling 1,872 lbs of CO 2. Ed Begley used TerraPass on Living with Ed (which I love), so I started there.

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