If you use notebooks, choose brands that use 100% recycled post-consumer waste paper, if you can. These are sometimes sold in shops, but easier to find online. Whether you use notebooks to make your to-do list and write down life plans, jot your thoughts or simply use for a shopping list, choosing recycled paper helps…
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How to Clean (and speed up) Your Laptop
Heather Stillufsen Often slow laptops are not broken, they can be ‘fixed to factory settings’ for £50 by taking it into a laptop repair shop for a professional clean. Always install recommended updates too and let your laptop have a rest to cool down (too much heat can damage the battery). Also read how to…
How to Prevent (and recycle) Techno Trash
Technotrash refers to the huge amount of e-waste like clunky desktop computers, printers, scanners, cables etc. What do you do with it? Don’t send it to Africa or Asia, that’s what. These continents don’t want all our rubbish. Ghana’s main ‘digital dumping ground’ at Agbogbloshie is where most of the world’s e-waste ‘goes to die’….
High Rent? How to Share Your Work Space
This London co-working space is set in a converted Victorian church. With the huge rise in rents and long leases, co-working is taking off. This is for people who work alone, and then you just ‘hot-desk’ with others, renting the desk and anything else (fax machine, voicemail telephones, meeting rooms) a few hours a week,…
How to Simpify Your Computer
Most of us own a computer (laptops are more common these days, and some people only surf on their phones). Like electricity, computers can be used for good or bad. They can be used to educate and inspire, find lost pets, create and find jobs or sell artisan wares. Or they can be used for…