article thumbnail

Blockchain for Impact: Blockchain Revolution Global Event Wrap-Up

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Everledger process is also being used for things like recovering rare earth minerals (cobalt, lithium) from batteries, in the sustainability space. She is the CEO and principal of the social enterprise consultancy, Good Plus Tech , with a focus on leveraging emerging technologies like blockchain and artificial intelligence.

Global 107
article thumbnail

Recycle Your Rechargeable Batteries!

Tech Soup

Most mobile phones and laptop computers use lithium ion rechargeable batteries. Find out where to recycle them at Call2Recycle.org.

Lithium 56
professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

SOCAP: The Market at the Intersection of Money and Meaning

Tech Soup

I hope you'll pardon me if I start with a green tech thing. She said that it generates more electricity at a lower cost than lead-acid and lithium ion batteries. I thought it might be fun to recount a perfectly random cross-section of folks who came by chat at the TechSoup booth on a Tuesday at the SOCAP event. SeaWave Battery.

article thumbnail

Mobile, Voice-Operated Everything, and Security, Oh My! Top Nonprofit Tech for 2016

Tech Soup

Lithium ion battery failures were big again this past year. Lithium ion batteries will continue to power our mobile devices — and continue to catch fire now and then, but not that often. Now the perpetual horror story of nonprofit tech and all of IT for that matter. He is an unsung hero of nonprofit tech no longer.

Voice 36
article thumbnail

How to Get Long Life Out of Laptop and Cell Phone Batteries

Tech Soup

Dell says that a full life span for a garden-variety lithium-ion laptop battery is 18 to 24 months. Also it doesn't harm lithium-ion batteries to keep your laptop plugged in to AC power most of the time when you're using it because modern chargers are designed to shut off when the battery is fully charged.

Laptop 65
article thumbnail

iFixit’s Basic Phone Repairs that Most of Us Can Do

Tech Soup

In the last 10 years, iron ore production has increased by 180%, cobalt by 165%, and lithium by 125%. The demand for quicker, thinner gadgets has also increased the demand for raw materials. And getting those materials out of the ground has environmental consequences.

Phone 47
article thumbnail

What’s in your social media measurement tool box and why?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I sent out a query nonprofit tech colleagues who are social media mavens and ask that age old question, “ What’s in your social media measurement tool box ?” Kami Huyse , Zoetica, points to Lithium , a monitoring and measurement tool. You don’t need the bells and whistles if you’re just starting out.”.

Measure 115