Computer

Upgrade your computer

Buy a laptop instead of a desktop

Donate your old computer to charity

Choose an ENERGY STAR computer

Buy an EPEAT computer

Install a power strip

Power mobile devices with a hand crank or solar charger

Use green web products and applications

Comments

10/02/2008
1:57pm
step.it.up

hm. tip #10 could be inclusive of green web products, not just search engines. for example, the browser Flock released an eco edition offering a bunch of cool green features: http://browser.flock.com/eco/

07/23/2009
7:51am
pierre

You can use less computers by using 25x faster software, see TrustLeap G-WAN:

http://gwan.com/

-and wonder why not all software is made to be efficient.

08/10/2009
9:22pm
Mark Terranova

No mention of using Linux. Donations of hardware usually end up in the trash at thrift stores.
Windows can create an artificial need to throw out a perfectly good computer. If you are lucky enough to be near a Free Geek location; they can give a tax deduction & make sure it is used/recycled properly.

If you are in Northern California you have a few places to take it. Our donations help people locally. Our older hardware we send to Belize & the Philippines. Computers can have many YEARS of great service if you run Ubuntu Linux.
http://gidgetkitchen.org/

09/05/2009
9:44am
jeffbkill

Windows perpetuates a cycle of 'upgrade and dispose'. To keep up with Microsoft you have to upgrade every 5 years.

Our charity also uses Linux to make use of perfectly good older hardware that can no longer run the latest Microsoft OS.

The great thing with Linux is the ability to use custom distributions such as Qimo for a computer geared towards children: http://www.qimo4kids.com
You can't do that with Microsoft!

Computers for Charity is based in Bowling Green, Ohio. Our website is: http://computersforcharity.webs.com/

08/11/2009
11:53am
Tiferet

What happened to the tip about using blackle? I know it got reviewed somewhere...

09/05/2009
9:48am
jeffbkill
08/29/2010
3:06pm
slord

This is really interesting. A lot of computer manfacturers, hosts, and so on are now concentrating on green energy.. which I think is really nice since it makes our planet "greener"

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