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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.
Through our articles, services, surveys, and blog you can find out what other organizations are doing and how you can make effective, earth-friendly changes within your organization. We also will be featuring technology products and services that can assist you with your efforts.
Blog Posts
Articles
- Energy Saving Tips - Is Your Nonprofit a Hummer?
- Virtualization 101
- A Nonprofit's Guide to Green Printing
Forum Threads
Research
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/
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.
