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October 26, 2006
Recycling computer groups
NY Times: Home Front: Refurbishing Computers, and Lives, Too -- Per Scholas upgrades desktop computers that corporations discard as obsolete and distributes them to schools and families.
There's also FreeGeek.org, a group in Portland, Ore., that I have followed for several years.
Posted by eubie at 9:46 PM permalink
Google goes solar
WSJ: Google Campus to Get Solar Power -- Google plans to install a massive solar-power system at its headquarters, as technology companies' support for alternative energy is on the rise. and NY Times: Search Power Takes a Stand for Sun Power -- Google said it would build a large solar electricity system to provide electricity to its office complex in Mountain View, Calif.
Also Wired News: Aussies Eye Sun to Beat Blackouts -- Hoping to keep the juice flowing despite a predicted energy shortfall, Australia plans to build the world's biggest solar power plant.
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