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How to Make Sustainable Practices Make Sense for Your Business

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in environmental sustainability, says businesses have impacted society and the surrounding environment in positive and negative ways for hundreds of years. However, in the past couple of decades, changes in the environment are now having a serious impact on how businesses operate,” Finnegan says.

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Eco Mobile and Broadband

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Electronic waste often contains highly toxic materials that can negatively impact the environment for decades or even generations. You can use major search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing to find companies that specialize in purchasing and recycling or refurbishing old cell phones. Using a green cell phone. Green applications.

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EarthTalk: Impact of Spending Time Online

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Google, Facebook, and Amazon.com are already deeply committed to the cloud computing model, with Microsoft, Yahoo and others following suit accordingly. The company recently released environmental footprint scores for several of its data centers. In an April 2011 report entitled “How Dirty is your Data?”