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Since the beginning of October APC have been convening on Thursdays on social media (mostly Twitter, also Facebook and Instagram) around ICTs and sustainability / the environment. Every #EcoThursday we've had interesting conversations - so far we've touched on the impact of e-waste and ways to address it, extractivism and alternatives to it, and the right to repair and reuse.

On Wednesday 23rd June 2021 GreenNet moved office from The Green House in Cambridge Heath to Oxford House in Bethnal Green. The new office is only a short walk, bus trip or bike ride away from the old one. The new address is:     GreenNet     Oxford House,     Derbyshire Street,     London E2 6HG Our support telephone number remains 0330 355 4011. Our other telephone numbers will also remain unchanged.

On Friday 22nd and Saturday 23rd November 2019 GreenNet's website and most of our online services, including most of our customers' websites, went offline for several hours on two occasions. Our technicians became aware of the outage on Friday lunchtime and worked remotely and at our data centre until the small hours of Saturday morning to identify the fault and restore access to websites and emails.

More Reflections from RightsCon in Tunis and Edward Snowden's appearance at ORGCon, At ORGCon, Big Brother Watch’s Silkie Carlo, referred to our current situation as the “New Tech Crisis” – that’s the first time I have heard this phrase being used to describe the topic that in hindsight has been the main theme of the three international events I’ve attended during the past few months: these two and RightsCon Tunis.