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<h2><font face="sans-serif">GreenNet Christmas Newsletter 2009<br>
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GreenNet would like to wish
all our members a very </small><small>peaceful, happy and healthy
holiday time. </small><small>The GreenNet office will be closed from
24th
December until 4th January, although the technical team will be
monitoring the system daily. If you have any urgent problems, please
call us on +44 (0)20 7065 0942 and leave a message on our answer phone
or email support. We will try to help you as far as possible. Make
sure you include any error messages that you are getting and your email
address.<br>
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We hope you are able to turn off your computers and enjoy the holiday
(don't leave them on standby!).<br>
With warm wishes from all of us in the GreenNet Collective,<br>
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Anna, Cedric, Howard, Ian, Liz, Mimo, Marek and Sharif. <br>
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<h2><font face="sans-serif">GreenNet Broadband now even
better value<br>
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Many you have switched to
GreenNet's fast and reliable Broadband deal since we began offering it
a couple of years ago. But did you know that the connection just got
better? We are now offering an unlimited monthly download package at
the same price as our previous 2GB monthly limit, just £24.50 per
month. As always you get GreenNet's full technical support for your
broadband as well as any other GreenNet service you have it bundled
with (email, web hosting, etc.). To switch to us and support GreenNet
through your broadband connection visit: <a
href="http://www.gn.apc.org/services/adsl">http://www.gn.apc.org/services/adsl<br>
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<h2><font face="sans-serif"><font><font>New Sites<br>
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GN's gallery of <a href="http://www.gn.apc.org/services/gallery">new
web projects</a> is proudly listing lots of new sites this year - with
better organised content that's easier to find, creating more impact.
Edited highlights including sites for <a href="http://www.fern.org">Fern</a>,
<a href="http://www.plri.org">Paulo Longo Research Initiative</a>, <a
href="http://www.wluml.org">Women Living under Muslim Laws</a>, <a
href="http://www.developmentinpractice.org">Development in Practice</a>,
<a href="http://www.affp.org.uk">Asian Foundation for Philanthropy</a>
and <a href="http://www.quaker.org.uk">Quakers in Britain</a>.</small></font></p>
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Many of the projects have been developed
in partnership with our wonderful design colleagues at <a
href="http://www.wave.coop">wave</a>. We've been working together on
sites since 2007 and the collaboration has brought a new creative
dimension to our project planning work and much more beautiful designs
for the finished sites. Technical advances have also allowed us to
come
up with better options for multi-lingual content; improved searching
that guides users through their search; online bookshops and
subscription tools for taking orders and processing payments; and
integrated newsletter tools for easy mass mailing to members and
subscribers. <br>
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<h2><font face="sans-serif">Greening IT<br>
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GreenNet uses low-power
server </small></font></h3>
<font face="sans-serif"><small>GreenNet's efforts at reducing
our environmental impact this year have had some modest successes and
some frustrating obstacles - searching in vain (so far) for a UK green
data centre, with predictable resistance from the owners of our data
centre on switching to a green power supply, and no response yet from
Dragon's Den to support us in reducing the carbon footprint of our
hosting set up. We know that some providers are using carbon
offsetting
(buy a tree for each server somewhere on a tree farm) but we've always
believed that if emissions are worth reducing we should really be doing
it ourselves. And so we've been looking more seriously at how we can
make the most difference.<br>
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Luckily our long-standing bike, bus and train habits mean that we're
already on track with transport. And our office building in Leonard
Street has a very good standard of low-power use, low-water use,
composting and recycling. The impact of reduced-energy hosting on
carbon emissions is relatively minimal. For instance, using the lift
less often to get to the 5th floor of our building is probably greener
than some of the measures we looked at! Nevertheless, every little
counts and we have invested in a new server that saves <a
href="http://www.itpro.co.uk/607056/verypc-greenserver-janus-ii/2">approximately
two-thirds of a normal 1U machine</a>, which is an exciting development
for
all of
us here (not just the geeks...).
Let us know
if you're interested in greener hosting options, and also send us your
own energy-saving suggestions. </small></font>
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<h2><font face="sans-serif">New Billing System</font><font
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We are pleased to announce GreenNet's new billing system which will be
on stream early in the new year and will replace the now aged system
which was somewhat past its use-by date. More details on its benefits
will be announced soon. We are also taking this opportunity to review
our subscription services to make them more flexible and
user-friendly.
Look out for these in 2010.<br>
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Regrettably VAT returns to 17.5% in January. Please note this will be
shown on invoices dated after 1 January 2010. </small></font>
<p><font face="sans-serif"><small>And finally thanks to all of you for
your continuing support!</small></font></p>
<p><font face="sans-serif"><small>With
warm wishes for 2010 from all of us in
the GreenNet Collective<br>
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