http://www.pascalsview.com/pascalsview/2008/03/being-green-starts-with-responsible-recycling-of-old-electronics-at-green-citizen.html Focused Commentary on the Family Enterprise, Entrepreneurship, Board Governance Best Practices, Venture Capital, and Public Policy Sun, 26 Jun 2011 21:12:29 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.pascalsview.com/pascalsview/2008/03/being-green-starts-with-responsible-recycling-of-old-electronics-at-green-citizen.html/comment-page-1#comment-228 Andrew Fife Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:41:00 +0000 http://pascalsview.chime.com/?p=408#comment-228 If you want to go a couple of steps further to help children and the environment (even more) at the same time, I suggest donating your computer electronics the the Alameda County Computer Resource Center (www.accrc.org). ACCRC will refurbish your older computer with the latest Ubunutu/Linux and distribute them to low-income schools. This is possible because Linux is so much lighter weight than Windows. Re-use is better than recycling and this gets computers to kids that need them the most. ...oh and the ACCRC doesn't charge any fees for drop offs at their Berkely or Novato facilities! I recently organized an installfest with the ACCRC that refurbished 350 computers for schools. You can check it out here: http://www.untangle.com/installfest If you want to go a couple of steps further to help children and the environment (even more) at the same time, I suggest donating your computer electronics the the Alameda County Computer Resource Center (www.accrc.org).
ACCRC will refurbish your older computer with the latest Ubunutu/Linux and distribute them to low-income schools. This is possible because Linux is so much lighter weight than Windows.
Re-use is better than recycling and this gets computers to kids that need them the most.
…oh and the ACCRC doesn’t charge any fees for drop offs at their Berkely or Novato facilities!
I recently organized an installfest with the ACCRC that refurbished 350 computers for schools. You can check it out here:
http://www.untangle.com/installfest

]]> http://www.pascalsview.com/pascalsview/2008/03/being-green-starts-with-responsible-recycling-of-old-electronics-at-green-citizen.html/comment-page-1#comment-227 Sean Keller Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:04:54 +0000 http://pascalsview.chime.com/?p=408#comment-227 This lack of accountability is in away a good thing I think since we need a way to revive our economy. reducing this kind of waste can help us chip our way back into a steady economy. also, entreprenuers in other areas besides the bay area CA are likely to adopt similar business models as Green Citizen This lack of accountability is in away a good thing I think since we need a way to revive our economy. reducing this kind of waste can help us chip our way back into a steady economy. also, entreprenuers in other areas besides the bay area CA are likely to adopt similar business models as Green Citizen

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