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News
2006 |
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Dear visitors, It is our pleasure to announce that thanks to you we are now able to give
away more computers to the community.
Now even more elderly homes, daycare
centers, and community associations
will benefit from ERA's donation
program.
ERA is here for the community. Any Alberta based charities can
contact us
to receive computers for their
libraries, community access rooms, or
office.
If you have a personal computer to drop off, please make sure to drop it
off at a location that will ensure it
will be reused and
donated here.
If your company wants to donate old computers to this program can also
contact us. |
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Attention Calgary:
Thanks to donations from many of Calgary's corporate giants and some
branches of government ERA was able to
meet the 2005/06 milestone of
computers donated into the community.
Many elderly homes, daycare homes,
libraries and community centers were
setup thanks to donations from
corporations, governments and
individuals.
In 2006/07 ERA's and communities need for computers is greater than
100,000 computers and laptops. ERA
will be issuing large appeals on
behalf of our donation recipients in
the near future for donations of
computers and laptops. Computers no
longer needed by many large companies,
government departments and individuals
can still be very beneficial. Ask us
how, where, or if you are ready to
donate or recycle your computers now,
please fill out the pickup form
here. |
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Attention Edmonton:
ERA is currently in need of 1000's of computers and laptops for donations
to many non profit and charitable
organizations. Please contact our
office for a list of needy places, or
fill out the pickup form
here. |
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Attention Vancouver:
ERA is in the process of moving into a new warehouse. We will only be
able to service our members in the
that time. We are moving into a large
warehouse in downtown Vancouver,BC. |
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ERA is currently in desperate need of laptops, routers, and computers for
many of our projects to setup
libraries and community access centers
in lower income communities, non
profit organizations, charitable
organizations in Calgary, Edmonton,
Vancouver and world wide. Our request
list now breaches one thousand
requests for laptops, routers, and
desktop computers. |
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team, second to none: GO OILERS GO!
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Attention Edmonton: We are
currently
restructuring our Edmonton depot
and
are in desperate need of a
bonded
driver and volunteers.
Volunteers can
earn a computer or computers for
their
time or even just help out.
Volunteers
can help us setup many computers
to
donate to charities and non
profit
groups in Edmonton who are
currently
on a large waiting list to
receive
them. |
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March 2006. ERA and many of
its
corporate donors in Calgary
provide
1,000 refurbished computers into
the
community. Many local charities,
non
profit groups, elderly homes,
poor
people are enabled access to
computers
and technology. It is one of
ERA's
goals to ensure that nobody in
our
society is excluded by not
having
access to computers. Calgary's
many
corporate giants realize that
their
old computers may not be good
enough
for them anymore, but many
charities
and non profits can still
benefit from
them. ERA's new Vancouver
Computer and
Electronics Depot is starting to
collect computers from
Vancouver's
corporate giants who are slowly
starting to realize the social
and
environmental difference by
reusing
and recycling their old
computers. |
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ALBERTA - CANADA - March, 2006.
*** Over
63,000 monitors, 60,000
computers, 33,500
printers"
have been recycled
in Alberta
since the beginning of the ARMA
and
Alberta Government
"Electronic
Recycling Program".
After months and even years of
ERA
insisting that those computers
are
tested for the functionality or
reusability or useful components
ARMA
has so far done nothing about
this.
Thousands of computers are
disposed of
by large universities, colleges,
government departments and large
corporations into this
government ran
recycling program.
Unfortunately the contractors
the
government has chosen take
profits
before helping people. They in
turn
recycle these computers into
dust,
eliminating thousands of
possible
opportunities for poor and
disadvantaged people to access
technology and computers.
Tens of thousands of these
computers
could have been in poor peoples
homes,
in local charities, and not to
mention
in thousands of homes and
businesses
in 3rd world countries. Another
example is that actually
recycling
these computers is more
environmentally hazardous than
reusing
them is a big reason to keep
using
these valuable learning tools.
ERA
hereby calls for an immediate
halt of
the government recycling program
and
the taxes they collect for
recycling
for independent review and
assessment,
to ensure no working computers
are
being recycled and not reused.
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ERA participates in the IT for
Dominica program, providing
computers for schools in
Dominica.
Pictures here. |
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Various
charities in Alberta are
scheduled
to receive donations in
February
and March. We are currently
recruiting
volunteers in each city to
assist
with setting up several
hundred
working computers to donate
to local
charities, non profit
groups, seniors
centers, etc. You can even
earn
a computer for helping, or
just
help. Click
here to apply
please. |
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Thank
you Canada!
In Edmonton and Vancouver
both the
grand opening ceremonies
went well
with many prominent
political and
business figures in
attendance.
Vancouver grand opening
pictures
click here. |
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Calgary's Shaw
TV airs a small feature on
ERA's
computer donation program
and one
of our recipients, the
Calgary Drop
in Center. Click
here to watch. You will
need
Real
Player. |
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ERA
joins Alberta
Government's Alberta's
Promise initiative,
aimed at inspiring and
encouraging
businesses, agencies,
communities,
and individuals to adopt the
Alberta's
promise commitment to
children.
ERA is a supporter of many
children
oriented and other charities
and
non profit groups in need of
computers.
It is a great shame to have
children
not be able to use a
computer at
their daycare, school or
home in
Alberta or elsewhere. It is
one
of ERA's goals to ensure
that every
child can use a computer all
across
Alberta and world wide.
Computers
are very valuable learning
tools
and children and individuals
deprived
of computers are at a
disadvantage. |
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ERA is
proud
to announce expansion of our
depot
system in Calgary and
Edmonton.
Now it will be more
convenient than
ever to donate your old
laptops
and computers. Major
retailers Wal-Mart,
A&B Sound, Zellers,
RONA, and
more retailers which we will
post
on our website soon will
start accepting
donations of laptops and
computers
on ERA's behalf, just like
our current
depots Office Depot and
Staples.
List of places to drop off
your
laptops and computers for
donation
in
Calgary and Edmonton. |
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Alberta and British Columbia
MLA's
speak on computer donations
and recycling
here. |
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Win
a trip to Lake Louise for a
weekend.
We are giving away a paid
getaway
to Lake Louise to one lucky
donor
is January and February. Click
here |
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Starting
2006, ERA offers
revolutionary service
to our residential and
business
clients. We will be able to
dispatch
a computer technician to any
home
or business in Calgary,
Edmonton
or Vancouver. The technician
will
remove any confidential data
from
your computer using the only
RCMP
certified software if
necessary
and pick up the computer or
computers
for donation or recycling.
To book
early please fill out this
form. |
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We
wish everyone happy
holidays. This
holiday season is special
for ERA
as we are just opening our
Vancouver
depot location. During the
holidays
we will be taking some time
off
and wish to reassure all of
our
supporters and members that
2006
brings new things and fully
operational
ERA depots across Canada.
Happy
holidays from everyone at
ERA. |
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The
holiday season brings many
requests
to ERA for donations of
computers
and laptops. In 2005 we fell
short
of collecting our goal of
60,000
computers and monitors by
approximately
30,000 complete units. In
the last
few weeks of this year ERA
is making
that extra effort to collect
more
computers and laptops to use
in
our programs. In 2006 we aim
to
collect 150,000 computer
sets and
laptops in Calgary,
Edmonton, and
Vancouver to use in our
donation
programs, and to prevent
from ending
up in the landfills by being
properly
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ERA
donates some refurbished
computers
to Calgary's St. Mary
Church, after
the church was robbed a few
days
ago, and their computers
stolen.
ERA was able to immediately
replace
the stolen computers with
some computers
that were donated to our
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Calgary's
Drop in Center is also
receiving
some donated computers from
our
program. The Drop in Center
has
a program to provide working
computers
to new home owners and
renters coming
from the Drop In
Center. |
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ERA
has been raising the issue
of reuse
and recycling in Alberta for
the
past few years. We have
always been
the innovators and always
worked
on improving. Recently with
the
introduction of a government
administered
recycling program, ERA has
struggled
to collect working computers
and
monitors. The governments
contractors
and designated
administrators of
the recycling program are
more focused
on profits, rather than the
environment
or recycling. For example it
pays
to smash a computer, rather
than
giving it to a charity to
use. Quote
Alberta Recycling
Authority"***
49,914 monitors, 46,879
computers,
26,301 printers and 22,000
televisions
have been
recycled"
None of these computers or
electronics
have been tested or any
parts reused.
All computers were destroyed
at
a very large cost to
Alberta. Tens
of thousands of these
computers
could have been in poor
peoples
homes, in local charities,
and not
to mention in thousands of
homes
and businesses in 3rd world
countries.
Another example is that
actually
recycling these computers is
more
environmentally hazardous
that reusing
them is a big reason to keep
using
these valuable learning
tools. |
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ERA
hereby calls for an
immediate
halt of the government
recycling
program and the taxes
they
collect for recycling
for
independent review and
assessment,
to ensure no working
computers
are being recycled and
not
reused. |
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ERA
is announcing some major
changes
to our program. Individuals
and
organization that wish to
drop off
computers and electronics
for donation
or recycling can now
directly donate
to ERA at our Computer and
Electronics
Depot locations in Calgary
and Edmonton. |
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Address in
Calgary
is : 1301 34th Avenue SE,
Right off
Ogden Road and Blackfoot Trail
SE |
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Address
in Edmonton is : 11404 143rd
Street,
Right off 142nd Street, next
the
the City of Edmonton
Ecostation. |
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