Techmamas

Tech Is The New Green

In our family we talk regularly about ways we can go green (yes, I am even going to buy a compost bin). My husband is obsessed with eco tech - and I am just getting up to speed. Please share with me links to posts about eco tech that families can use.. Here are just two posts from today:

1. Dell's Green Machines on Forbes.com
2. Amazon has a new green idea that is brown (as in packaging will be brown)
3. NASA Electric Moon Rover  (for kids interested in eco-tech and space)
4. Alltop's Green section has tons of juicy eco-tidbits

Recycling Technology Gadgets

Dory Devlin from Yahoo Tech posted with some information on the second life of unwanted gadgets. I found this very interesting because I am in the middle of preparing my current computer to pass on to my oldest son. And to further this "recycling trend", my new computer happens to be a re-furbished HP laptop from their business line. And to make things even more fun, we passed a really old keyboard to my son as a science experiment. He carefully took apart the keyboard and put on a show for his twin preschooler brothers on how a keyboard works.

I searched online for computer recycling centers and found a link to the green citizen that services San Francisco and Silicon Valley, Computer Recycling Center and a comprehensive post from BlogHer that discusses nonprofits and computer recycling.