WiserIT
So that we don't forget about the impact of IT
How much energy does a laptop use? Where do batteries go when we "recycle" them? What's the kilowatt cost of our data centers? This group was started mainly to talk about our increasing dependency on IT to do our work in the non-profit/ngo world, and how we may often overlook the impact of using this technology. After all, if we go on strike to protest t ...learn more
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365 Ways to Change the World
365 Ways to Change the WorldHow to make a difference... one day at a time Michael Norton"He's a one-man 'ideas factory' whose new book suggests some whacky ways in which, with a little bit of effort, ...more
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Ceres Principles
Ceres Principles
In the fall of 1989, Ceres announced the creation of the Ceres
Principles, a ten-point code of corporate environmental conduct to be
publicly endorsed by companies as an environmenta ...more
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California to promote reuse, recycling
Thanks to two groundbreaking state laws, you'll finally be able to recycle that old cell phone and junked computer monitor. The problem is, they could end up anywhere from the recycling heap to the sh ...more
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 | added by Janine about 1 year ago |
China Becoming a Technological Superpower - A Narrow Wind...
Abstract:
This working paper shows China's technological advance, its basis in
using foreign technology combined with its own manpower resources, and
its clever integration of regional ambitions with ...more
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 | added by lookatme about 1 year ago |
Blackle: The Energy-Efficient Google
Here’s a great example of “every little bit counts: Nicknamed the Black Google, Blackle
was created as a more energy-efficient version of the white-paged
Google. The site comes in response to a blog p ...more
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| added by lookatme about 1 year ago |
Buy a Laptop for a Child, Get Another Laptop Free
"One Laptop Per Child, an ambitious project to bring computing to the developing world’s children, has considerable momentum. Years of work by engineers and scientists have paid off in a pioneering lo ...more
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| added by lookatme over 2 years ago |
A Consumer's Guide to Buying Clean Energy
A whopping 68 percent of the electricity used in the United States comes from burning polluting fossil fuels. The rest is created by nuclear power plants and hydropower, with only a tiny fraction comi ...more
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 | added by paxlizzie over 3 years ago |
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