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Find a few well chosen calculators that we recommend to calculate your environmental impact by discovering how much energy your electronic devises use, and also how much CO2 and toxic emissions you can save the planet by recycling and reusing computers and other IT equipment.
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GreenTech: Nonprofit Environmental-Impact Reduction Resource
Welcome to the TechSoup GreenTech Initiative!
The GreenTech Initiative is about the technology products you choose and how you use them to reduce your environmental impact. These pages are a place for social benefit organizations to share and learn more about technology choices that can help to reduce our overall impact on the environment.
10 Green Technology Resolutions for 2009 (30 KB PDF)
Congratulations to the winner of the Reduce Paper Use Challenge: Big Brothers Big Sisters of Berrien and Cass, Inc in Michigan.
The organization has already put a host of activities into practice to reduce their paper use, including buying recycled paper, tracking paper usage, and implementing policies around document margins. Their first step, however, was to simply start sharing educational information via email instead of printing it. Congratulations to BBBS of Berrien and Cass! They have won a free 5-year MyFax account that will help them further reduce their paper use. Find out more in our press release.
Try a smart power strip in your office to automatically turn off accessories when you turn off your computer. (GreenTech receives a portion of the proceeds as a donation when you click here and complete a purchase.) Also, they have versions with Fax/Modem or Modem/Coaxial Surge Protection built in.
From Amazon: Kill A Watt EZ Electricity Usage Monitor
Shows the amount of electricity used to power your electronics like your computer, printer, fax machine and copier. These items use a surprising amount of power even in standby mode.
Other Holiday Products From Amazon:
Nonprofits can get warranted, low-cost desktop and laptop computers from TechSoup Stock's Refurbished Computer Initiative (RCI).
Find links to nearly all TechSoup computer recycling and reuse content, research, and listings.
Refurbishers can obtain very low-cost Microsoft Windows and Office licensing for computers that go to charities, schools, and low-income families from the Community Microsoft Authorized Refurbisher program.
Nonprofit refurbishers can get discounted Blancco industry standard hard drive wiping software.
Environmentalism is a grassroots movement... tell us about your GreenTech tips or successes that you would like to share.
Got stuff to give away or stuff you need: http://www.freecycle.org/
Are you a nonprofit looking for free stuff: http://www.ireuse.com/
