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Deron Beal
AS Profile The Freecycle Network began life more than six years ago as a single email sent by founder and current executive director Deron Beal to a handful of friends and not-for-profits in the US. Today the not-for-profit... [29 Sep 2009]
Yahoo! opens up for future
News The winning hack this year was Open FreeCycle which makes the online recycling community Freecycle searchable using the Yahoo Mail API, the Yahoo! Yahoo! is putting it's faith in openness to attract more... [15 May 2009]
Olympics IT gets lean, mean and green
News Click here for all there is on Green IT, from Freecycle to virtualisation. The London 2012 Olympic Games will rely on green tech to control costs and waste amid the worst economic slump since World War II. [05 Mar 2009]
Is five per cent of your IT budget the green piece?
News Click here for all there is on Green IT, from Freecycle to virtualisation. Despite the recession, companies are still setting aside a large chunk of their IT spending for green technology projects, a new study claims. [04 Mar 2009]
Netbooks a nail in Microsoft's coffin?
Comment Click here for all there is on Green IT, from Freecycle to virtualisation. What's behind Microsoft's hard times? It's not just the economic downturn, says Quocirca's Simon Perry. It's also a fundamental shift in... [29 Jan 2009]
Is going green still a priority in credit crisis?
News Click here for all there is on Green IT, from Freecycle to virtualisation. A survey conducted by the organisers of Storage Expo 2008 has concluded that IT budgets are getting tighter because of the credit crunch but that... [15 Oct 2008]
Defra to ditch desktops and PDAs
News Click here for all there is on Green IT, from Freecycle to virtualisation. A Whitehall department wants to scrap desktop and handheld computers in favour of lone laptops. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural... [16 Jul 2008]
UK worst in Europe for green IT
News Click here for all there is on Green IT, from Freecycle to virtualisation. UK businesses are the worst in Europe for embracing green IT say tech directors. The majority of IT leaders in the UK, 60 per cent, gave the... [08 Jul 2008]
SAS becomes sun worshipper
News Click here for all there is on Green IT, from Freecycle to virtualisation. Business intelligence software company SAS is to build a solar electric power farm at its headquarters in Cary, North Carolina. [26 Jun 2008]
Power down PCs to save millions, gov't told
News Click here for all there is on Green IT, from Freecycle to virtualisation. The Office of Government Commerce (OGC) is urging public sector workers to turn off their PCs overnight to slash carbon emissions and cost. [22 May 2008]
Gov't department readies for Vista rollout
News Click here for all there is on Green IT, from Freecycle to virtualisation The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) will start to roll out Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system from June. [15 May 2008]
UK workers urged to avoid office for the day
News Click here for all there is on Green IT, from Freecycle to virtualisation. National Work from Home day is here again this Thursday 15 May and silicon.com is aiming to repeat the success of last year's great working from... [14 May 2008]
Editor's Blog: My Freecycle identity crisis
Comment If you've not come across it before, Freecycle is a group that enables you to donate unwanted goods to the local community. There also seems to be no limit to weird and wacky items offered on Freecycle -... [01 Apr 2008]
Freecycle Diaries: Serendipity at last
Comment In the final instalment of the Freecycle Diaries, Natasha Lomas clears a ragbag assortment of items from her flat - and pairs up a giant accountant with a giant calculator. In a last-ditch effort to clear what has... [08 May 2007]
Freecycle Diaries: Anyone for tennis?
Comment In the latest episode of the Freecycle Diaries, Natasha Lomas finds it easy to unload a last will and testament pack but can't give away a tennis racket, no matter how hard she tries. I fear I may be evincing the first... [30 Apr 2007]
