{"id":95336,"date":"2009-12-22T23:55:09","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T04:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/?p=136715"},"modified":"2009-12-22T23:55:09","modified_gmt":"2009-12-23T04:55:09","slug":"greenest-shades-of-eco-friendly-electronics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/95336","title":{"rendered":"Greenest Shades of Eco-Friendly Electronics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are various shades of eco-friendly electronics &#8211; choose your green level the next time you need some new electronic gear.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-136716\" src=\"http:\/\/images1.blisstree.com\/files\/2009\/12\/greencomputer.jpg\" alt=\"greencomputer\" width=\"590\" height=\"381\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Greenish electronic gear<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Look for electronics that carry the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.energystar.gov\/\">Energy Star<\/a> label.<\/li>\n<li>If you&#8217;re trading up electronics check online to see if the company who manufactured your equipment has a recycling program.<\/li>\n<li>If you can&#8217;t find a manufacturing recycling program check with Earth 911 to find a place to recycle your electronics.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Greener electronic gear: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Before replacing broken gear with new gear see if you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/thriftymommy\/easily-find-a-lost-manual-online\/\">fix it<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>If you really need to upgrade and your old gear is still good, donate it to a non-profit organization.<\/li>\n<li>Visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/pages.ebay.com\/rethink\/\">Rethink Initiative<\/a> to find information, tools and solutions that make it easy and sometimes even profitable \u2013 to find new users for idle computers and electronics, and to responsibly recycle unwanted products.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Greenest electronic gear: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you&#8217;re shopping for a large business or company check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/articles\/choose-greener-electronics-with-epeat\/\">Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool<\/a> (EPEAT) system to find the best and greenest electronics.<\/li>\n<li>Beyond simply buying greener electronics make your usage green too. I.e. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/articles\/7-ways-to-green-your-computer-time\/\">green your computer use<\/a>, unplug equipment when not in use, and so on. How you use your electronics is just as important as choosing greener electronics.<\/li>\n<li>Before upgrading <strong>REALLY consider<\/strong> if you actually need new gear. Most of the time people upgrade with no reasoning other than they just want a new toy. That&#8217;s not very earth friendly. One of the greenest steps you can take in almost any consumer situation is to buy less stuff.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[image via stock.xchng]<\/p>\n<p>Post from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\">Blisstree<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/articles\/greenest-shades-of-eco-friendly-electronics\/\">Greenest Shades of Eco-Friendly Electronics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are various shades of eco-friendly electronics &#8211; choose your green level the next time you need some new electronic gear. Greenish electronic gear: Look for electronics that carry the Energy Star label. If you&#8217;re trading up electronics check online to see if the company who manufactured your equipment has a recycling program. If you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/141"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}