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How to Get Long Life Out of Laptop and Cell Phone Batteries

Tech Soup

It is mined mainly in Chile and there are also large deposits in Bolivia. Lithium-ion batteries are actually pretty benign environmentally. EPA classifies them as non-hazardous waste, but lithium is an alkalai metal that is flammable.

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Nancy Jo Craig’s Lifetime Achievement Award In Nonprofit Computer Refurbishment

Tech Soup

After she co-founded the Foundation For Friends of Nature in Bolivia, a million acres of natural habitat were put in to public trust. She is a poet, an environmental activist, and a nonprofit management expert with a masters degree in public administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.

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Announcing the Third Impact Lab on Climate Justice

Saleforce Nonprofit

Before her time in Sacramento she worked for environmental NGOs throughout Arizona, California, and Bolivia. Isabella received her B.S. in Environmental Science with a minor in Latin American Studies and her M.S. in Environmental Management with a concentration in Water Management, both from the University of San Francisco.

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See3 Celebrates Blog Action Day

See3

Bloggers, activists and friends gathered at our office to watch The New Silver , a film about a woman in Bolivia who is fighting to build a better life for her family with the help of microcredit. This year’s topic was poverty so See3 decided to host a screening of the Dollar A Day film series released by GlobalDevelopmentMatters.

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5 Ways to Gain The Upper Hand in Facebook’s Newsfeed

Connection Cafe

Facebook recently announced a test in Sri Lanka, Bolivia, Slovakia, Serbia, Guatemala, and Cambodia. So the Newsfeed algorithm tries to predict what each user wants to see in their Newsfeed. But no algorithm is perfect. So they test and tweak. Users in these countries can only see Page posts that their friends comment on or share.

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

Have Fun - Do Good

You can just go on there and you can be talking immediately to women in Bolivia, and in Nepal, and drawing strength, courage, and support from them, and vice versa. They're coming from Nepal, the Philippines, and Bolivia. What they're coming up with, what they're saying, and how they're organizing. It's just accessible.

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Record Revenue, Double Digit Hike For GivingTuesday

The NonProfit Times

This year Benin, Bolivia, Denmark, Panama, and Sri Lanka launched national GivingTuesday movements, and GivingTuesday launched its Europe Hub, which joins the Africa, India, Latin America & the Caribbean, and U.S. & Participants who volunteered in the U.S. was estimated at 9.2 was estimated at 16.6 million, a 17% jump.

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