[AEN] GTA Newsletter: Launch Party Change, Green IT Forum & Survey

Fri Jun 6 00:26:18 CDT 2008

From: Michelle Naquin michelle.naquin at greentechnologyalliance.org

GTA Newsletter  Issue 3 Date: June 05, 2008   
   Seeding the Alliance... One contact at a time  
In This Issue:
	* Green IT Forum (thank you to everyone that attended)  
	* GTA Survey (create the organization you want to join) 
	* Change to the Launch Party 
	* Events Calendar  (help us plan our next events) 
	* Green Tip of the Week (calculate your ecological footprint) 
	* Green Articles (learn about the waste hierarchy or the 3 R's and sustainability)  

GTA News... 
  Green IT Forum

Click here to read the press release.

The Green Technology Alliance of Austin hosted its kickoff forum, with green business industry leaders from Microsoft, Hitachi, IBM and Sychron.  The half-day symposium was a great success and attended by over 60 committed Green professionals.  

 Click here  to read the KUT post on the GTA:  

An Austin organization is trying to green up Austin’s IT firms for the good of the city’s economy.
The Green Technology Alliance says IT companies waste lots of energy running program and electrical hardware and software that can be easily turned off. 

GTA Membership Survey

Please participate in our short survey to help us develop the organization you want and need.  Based on extensive feedback we have developed a simple survey to help us better create the programs you need and want.  

The survey takes less than 5 minutes and could help the GTA green the world!  Go to survey here...

Newsletter Changeover

While the membership and event registration site is fully functional their mailing list option did not provide the tracking of delivery and click through analysis or ability to send out HTML newsletters.  

Note: please use the 123 links to update your profile, opt out of the newsletter etc. NOT the iContact link because we will continue to register people and link membership and event registration etc. through 123.  I corrected the previous issue so this should work now. 
Upcoming Changes to Website

Watch the website for exciting new changes.  We will be adding additional information on the GTA alliance model, the roll-out plan for the next year and much more.  

General membership information on programs and benefits will also be added as the feedback from the survey rolls in.  GTA Events 
Register now for our... 

Watch for more events coming soon. If you would like to suggest an event please contact us at partner at greentechnologyalliance.org

7/16 GTA/door64 Happy Hour  
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Please review the newsletter and our beta websiteif you are in support of the GTA please:  

1.  Complete our 5 minute survey!
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Launch Party...  
While we would love to throw a rocking party the reality is that to do so would be extremely expensive and not the best use of our time or the funds.  

So we are returning to our original plan for the launch.  On June 18th all the founding members and member organizations will be announced in a press release.  Within a few weeks of the launch (target July) we will have our mission in action event.  Please pre-register via the event description to help us determine the appropriate venue and format for our mission in action conference.

Learn more about our ideas and "pre-register" if you are interested in our mission-in-action event here...  
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 Where Tech Meets Green

Date: July 16th
Time: 6-9 pm
Location: Six
Cost: Free

door64 Austin and GTA Austin invite you to this free networking event for Central Texas technology professionals.  Our last one in March was drew a huge crowd of software, hardware, semiconductor, and IT folks.  Here's another chance to meet your industry peers while enjoying free food, drinks, and door prizes at Six downtown!
register here...

Green Tip of the Week

Calculate your EF!

Your ecological footprint will surprise you and help you find easy ways to reduce your impact on the environment.  

Go to www.myfootprint.organd take the quiz.  

Then commit to making 1 or 2 simple changes to improve your EF!  

Waste Hierarchy

The waste hierarchy refers to the "3 Rs" reduce, reuseand recycle, which classify waste managementstrategies according to their desirability. The 3 Rs are meant to be a hierarchy, in order of importance.[1]

The waste hierarchy has taken many forms over the past decade, but the basic concept has remained the cornerstone of most waste minimisationstrategies. The aim of the waste hierarchy is to extract the maximum practical benefits from products and to generate the minimum amount of waste.

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Green Technology Alliance
Fax  : 512-366-9875
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