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The Impact of Planned Obsolescence on Our Environment and Economy
Everyone has a drawer full of unrepairable and outdated, lagging electronics. Devices you’ve accumulated over the years that simply couldn’t keep up with our fast pace of innovation. Consumer electronics have taken an enormous toll on the environment. But what if you were told that this was partly by design? The strategy…
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The Future of Urban Living: An Introduction to Smart Cities
With smartphones, chat apps, and the flow of data, we are now more connected than ever before. As the world becomes increasingly interconnected through global offerings of goods, services, and ideas, global value chains remain focused on developing a more affluent world. But the issue of interconnectedness is more local…
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Save the Planet by Adding These Green Tech Gadgets to Your Home
Living a sustainable lifestyle does not have to be complicated or expensive. Often, simply doing and buying less is the best way to go. However, considering that our homes are usually already connected to older energy networks, certain eco-friendly gadgets can help us reduce the impact our homes have on the environment…
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10 Ways to Repurpose That Old Computer
Have you ever thought about the environmental impact of your old electronic devices? From computers to TVs to phones, e-waste significantly contributes to pollution worldwide. The average person in the US generates more than 21 kg of e-waste per year, but only 15% of it is recycled. If we want to save the planet, we must…
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The Best Eco-friendly Tech Gifts this Holiday Season
Tech gifts are hard to beat - especially when they're eco-friendly. At both the packaging and product levels, sustainability and environmental awareness are more important than ever in the tech world. This holiday season, shop for more sustainable versions of your favorite devices. E-waste is a huge problem in our world.…
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Acer's Commitment to Business Sustainability
The world’s population recently reached eight billion people. We live in a world that’s evolving quickly as its population accelerates past a milestone number. With an elevated population come opportunities. But this new population milestone is not without potential dangers. Eight billion people means a planet that’s as…
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ENERGY STAR Certification: Proof of Energy Efficiency
If you're shopping for a new computer, you've likely seen the blue ENERGY STAR® logo and wondered what it means and if it is worth it. We will answer some common questions about ENERGY STAR computers to help you decide. For many, when buying a new computer, it's about speed and power. But energy efficiency is increasingly…
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ESG: What Is It & Why Is It Important?
Our world is rapidly changing. The way corporations have existed and operated in the past is now changing. External and internal pressures are shaping the way corporations do business and how they affect the world around them, both positively and negatively. Out of this transformation come initiatives like Environmental,…
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Acer Green Day Recap
Acer successfully hosted Green Day on August 24th, 2022. The event featured influential speakers who spoke alongside Acer team members and their message was broadcast to millions of viewers online. The main theme of the event was to share updates on Acer’s progress toward a more sustainable future, as well as paint a…
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Eco Friendly Smartphones
A smartphone is about 40% metals, 40% plastics, and 20% ceramics and resin. As well as the “conflict minerals” tungsten, tin, tantalum, and gold, phones also contain silver, nickel, and lead in the circuit board, cobalt, zinc, and copper in the battery, and arsenic, chromium, and selenium, all of which can leak during…
