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    <description>The Federal Electronics Challenge (FEC) is a partnership program that encourages federal facilities and agencies to: Purchase greener electronic products, Reduce impacts of electronic products during use, and Manage obsolete electronics in an environmentally safe way.</description>
	
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       <title>December 14, 2011 - All UNICOR Electronics Recycling Facilities R2 Certified</title>
	   <link>http://www.unicor.gov/recycling/</link>
	   <description><![CDATA[UNICOR has announced that all seven of their electronics recycling facilities have achieved Responsible Recycling (R2) certification. Federal agencies and facilities may use UNICOR as their electronics recycler without any further due diligence, and use of UNICOR will meet federal requirement to ensure environmentally sound recycling of used federal electronics.<br /><br />]]></description>
	   <pubDate>December 2011</pubDate>
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       <title>November 9, 2011 - New Executive Order on Promoting Efficient Spending Targets IT and Printing</title>
	   <link>http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/11/09/executive-order-promoting-efficient-spending</link>
	   <description><![CDATA[An Executive Order signed by the President on November 9 encourages federal agencies to take steps to limit the number of IT devices issued to employees; consider appropriate agency-wide IT solutions that consolidate IT activities; and consider using the Federal Strategic Sourcing Initiative&rsquo;s Print Management program.<br /><br />]]></description>
	   <pubDate>November 2011</pubDate>
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       <title>October 3, 2011 - FY2011 Annual Reporting Forms and 2012 Award Applications Available on FedCenter</title>
	   <link>http://www.fedcenter.gov/fec/</link>
	   <description><![CDATA[FEC reporting and award forms for FY2011 are available for submission on FedCenter.gov. Facility Partners may submit their FY2011 Annual Reporting Forms and 2012 Award Applications; and Agency Partners and FEC Champions may view summary reports for their participating facilities, through the FedCenter site.<br /><br />]]></description>
	   <pubDate>October 2011</pubDate>
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       <title>September 30, 2011 - GAO Issues Report on ENERGY STAR Changes</title>
	   <link>http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-11-888</link>
	   <description><![CDATA[The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released report GAO-11-888, Energy Star: Providing Opportunities for Additional Review of EPA&rsquo;s Decisions Could Strengthen the Program. The GAO concludes that EPA and DOE have made considerable progress in their ongoing efforts to implement significant changes to the Energy Star program, but recommends EPA develop a process for independent review of adverse agency decisions related to setting specifications and disqualifications.<br /><br />]]></description>
	   <pubDate>October 2011</pubDate>
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       <title>August 5, 2011 - FEC Announces 2011 Award Winners</title>
	   <link>http://www.federalelectronicschallenge.net/winners11.htm</link>
	   <description><![CDATA[The FEC is proud to announce the winners of the 2011 Federal Electronics Challenge Awards. This year, the FEC is recognizing thirty-nine Partners with 2011 Federal Electronics Challenge Awards, including seven Platinum Awards, four Gold Awards, twelve Silver Awards and sixteen Bronze Awards.<br /><br />]]></description>
	   <pubDate>August 2011</pubDate>
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       <title>July 28, 2011 - GAO Issues Report on Green Information Technology</title>
	   <link>http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-11-638</link>
	   <description><![CDATA[The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released report GAO-11-638, Green Information Technology: Agencies Have Taken Steps to Implement Requirements, but Additional Guidance on Measuring Performance Needed. The GAO highlighted federal successes in green IT and identified leading practices that they recommended the federal community adopt.<br /><br />]]></description>
	   <pubDate>August 2011</pubDate>
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       <title>July 20, 2011 - FDCCI Issues Updated Guidance for Data Center Consolidation</title>
	   <link>http://www.cio.gov/documents/FDCCI-Update-Memo-07202011.pdf</link>
	   <description><![CDATA[The Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative (FDCCI) issued a memo providing an update on federal data center consolidation activities, which included a updated timeline for agency and FDCCI action items.<br /><br />]]></description>
	   <pubDate>August 2011</pubDate>
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       <title>July 20, 2011 - CEQ, EPA and GSA Announce National Strategy on Electronics Stewardship</title>
	   <link>http://www.epa.gov/epawaste/conserve/materials/ecycling/taskforce/index.htm</link>
	   <description><![CDATA[The National Strategy for Electronics Stewardship lays the groundwork for federal actions to improve the design of electronic products and enhance management of used or discarded electronics. The Strategy was developed by an interagency Task Force and was released in July 2011.<br /><br />]]></description>
	   <pubDate>July 2011</pubDate>
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       <title>July 14, 2011 - ENERGY STAR Launches Most Efficient Initiative</title>
	   <link>http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/1e5ab1124055f3b28525781f0042ed40/26e61b6a9a9d8c2d852578cd0057a2aa!OpenDocument</link>
	   <description><![CDATA[ENERGY STAR has launched a new initiative to identify products that are the most energy-efficient in their categories among those that have earned the Energy Star label. Products that receive the Most Efficient designation demonstrate exceptional and cutting-edge efficiency performance that environmentally-minded consumers and early adopters value.<br /><br />]]></description>
	   <pubDate>July 2011</pubDate>
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       <title>June 30, 2011 - Save the Date for 2011 GreenGov Symposium</title>
	   <link>http://www.greengov2011.org/</link>
	   <description><![CDATA[The White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) announced that its second annual GreenGov Symposium, which aims to bring together leaders from government, the private sector, non-profits and academia to identify opportunities to green the Federal Government, will be held in
Washington, DC on October 31 through November 2, 2011. This year&rsquo;s event will be co-sponsored by CEQ and the Association of Climate Change Officers (ACCO).<br /><br />]]></description>
	   <pubDate>June 2011</pubDate>
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       <title>June 23, 2011 - New Branding for EPEAT Green Electronics Rating System</title>
	   <link>http://www.epeat.net/</link>
	   <description><![CDATA[The EPEAT green electronics rating system has launched a new website and logo. The new logo is intended to be easier to recognize and the website has been redesigned to coordinate with the new logo and with a more user friendly navigation.<br /><br />]]></description>
	   <pubDate>June 2011</pubDate>
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       <title>June, 2011 - Call for Nominations for the 2011 GreenGov Presidential Awards</title>
	   <link>http://www.fedcenter.gov/opportunities/awards/greengovpresidentialawards/</link>
	   <description><![CDATA[The GreenGov Presidential Awards honor exceptional Federal personnel, teams, projects and facilities, and programs that exemplify President Obama&rsquo;s charge to lead by example in sustainability. Nominations must be submitted by a Federal employee through the FedCenter website, <a href="http://www.fedcenter.gov">www.fedcenter.gov</a>, by June 24, 2011.<br /><br />]]></description>
	   <pubDate>June 2011</pubDate>
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       <title>January 21, 2011 - New Partner Services Website Launched</title>
	   <link>http://www.federalelectronicschallenge.net/partnerlog.htm</link>
	   <description><![CDATA[The FEC has launched a new Partner Services website, in an effort to bring additional resources to program partners. Partner Services replaces the Member Services site.<br /><br />]]></description>
	   <pubDate>January 2011</pubDate>
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       <title>October 20, 2010 - FEC Reporting Moved to FedCenter</title>
	   <link>http://www.fedcenter.gov/fec</link>
	   <description><![CDATA[The FEC program has moved all program reporting to FedCenter.gov. Facility Partners may submit their Baseline Surveys, Annual Reporting Forms, and Award Applications; and Agency Partners and FEC Champions may view summary reports for their participating facilities, through the FedCenter site.<br /><br />]]></description>
	   <pubDate>October 2010</pubDate>
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       <title>September 21, 2010 - GEC Releases Report on Environmental Benefits of EPEAT Product Sales in 2009</title>
	   <link>http://www.epeat.net/FastBenefits.aspx</link>
	   <description><![CDATA[The Green Electronics Council (GEC) released a report enumerating the environmental benefits from the global sales of EPEAT-registered products in 2009. Since the system’s launch in 2006, more than 317 million EPEAT-registered products have been purchased, with remarkable environmental benefits: the equivalent of nearly 6 million U.S. homes’ annual energy consumption saved; and cost savings to manufacturers and users of more than $6.5 billion.<br /><br />]]></description>
	   <pubDate>September 2010</pubDate>
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       <title>September 15, 2010 - Federal Agency Strategic Sustainability Performance Plans Available</title>
	   <link>http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ceq/sustainability/plans</link>
	   <description><![CDATA[The White House announced the release of Federal Agency Strategic Sustainability Performance Plans, which define how agencies will work to achieve the environmental, economic and energy goals called for in the Executive Order 13514, “Federal Leadership in Environmental, Energy and Economic Performance.” These plans include a section outlining the electronics stewardship goals for each agency, and their strategy for meeting these goals.<br /><br />]]></description>
	   <pubDate>September 2010</pubDate>
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       <title>August 6, 2010 - Registration Open for 2010 GreenGov Symposium</title>
	   <link>http://www.gwu.edu/explore/aboutgw/eventscalendars/greengov</link>
	   <description><![CDATA[Registration is now open for the 2010 GreenGov Symposium, to be held October 5-7, 2010 at the George Washington University campus in Washington, DC. Registration is open to Federal employees, Federal contractors and vendors, interested private sector companies, non-profits, and state and local government representatives.<br /><br />]]></description>
	   <pubDate>August 2010</pubDate>
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       <title>June 25, 2010 - Save the Date for the 2010 GreenGov Symposium!</title>
	   <link>http://www.fedcenter.gov/calendar/conferences/greengov2010/</link>
	   <description><![CDATA[The White House Council on Environmental Quality announced that it will hold the first GreenGov Symposium on October 5-7, 2010, hosted by The George Washington University on its Foggy Bottom Campus in Washington, DC.  The GreenGov Symposium replaces the Federal Environmental Symposium, and will have a full track on electronics stewardship and data center issues.<br /><br />]]></description>
	   <pubDate>June 2010</pubDate>
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       <title>June 11, 2010 - Data Centers Can Now Earn ENERGY STAR Label</title>
	   <link>http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=prod_development.server_efficiency</link>
	   <description><![CDATA[The ENERGY STAR program announced that data centers have been added to the Portfolio Manager tool, allowing facilities to benchmark their data center energy use and earn ENERGY STAR recognition if the data center is a top performer.<br /><br />]]></description>
	   <pubDate>June 2010</pubDate>
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       <title>June 11, 2010 - Presidential Memorandum on Unneeded Federal Real Estate Addresses Data Centers</title>
	   <link>http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/presidential-memorandum-disposing-unneeded-federal-real-estate</link>
	   <description><![CDATA[A Presidential Memorandum on disposing of unneeded federal real estate specifically highlighted data centers as assets requiring consolidation and elimination, as appropriate. The Memorandum also ordered agencies to immediately adopt a policy against expanding federal data centers beyond current levels.<br /><br />]]></description>
	   <pubDate>June 2010</pubDate>
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       <title>May 20, 2010 - GEC Releases Results of EPEAT Verification Round 2010-1 (PDF, 237K)</title>
	   <link>http://www.epeat.net/Docs/Verification%20Round%202010-01%20FINAL%2005142010.pdf</link>
	   <description><![CDATA[The Green Electronics Council (GEC) released a report summarizing the outcomes of the first round of verification in 2010 of subscriber registrations on the EPEAT Product Registry.  A primary focus of Verification Round 2010-01 was to expand the investigation of compliance with the recycled content and biobased material criteria, and a high percentage of non-conformances were found.<br /><br />]]></description>
	   <pubDate>May 2010</pubDate>
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       <title>April 28, 2010 - FEC Announces 2010 Award Winners</title>
	   <link>http://www.federalelectronicschallenge.net/winners10.htm</link>
	   <description><![CDATA[The FEC is pleased to announce the winners of the 2010 Federal Electronics Challenge Awards.  The FEC is recognizing thirty-eight Partners with 2010 Awards, including eight Gold Awards, fourteen Silver Awards and sixteen Bronze Awards.  The activities of these award winners in fiscal year 2009 had significant environmental benefits, including reducing greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to taking 7,000 passenger cars from the road for one year.<br /><br />]]></description>
	   <pubDate>April 2010</pubDate>
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       <title>April 15, 2010 - FEC Releases 2009 Accomplishments (PDF, 109K)</title>
	   <link>http://www.federalelectronicschallenge.net/resources/docs/accomplishments09.pdf</link>
	   <description><![CDATA[The FEC has released its 2009 summary of program accomplishments, which includes a qualitative assessment of program activities and a quantitative summary of program accomplishments, based on partner reports for FY2009.  More partners reported achieving program goals, compared to 2008, which resulted in a noticeable increase in the program’s environmental results.<br /><br />]]></description>
	   <pubDate>April 2010</pubDate>
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       <title>March 22, 2010 - National Cell Phone Recycling Week is April 5-11!</title>
	   <link>http://www.epa.gov/cellphones</link>
	   <description><![CDATA[For information on setting up a cell phone collection event at your facility, please contact <a href="mailto:Poliwka.Annette@epa.gov">Annette Poliwka</a> (Poliwka.Annette@epa.gov).<br /><br />]]></description>
	   <pubDate>March 2010</pubDate>
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       <title>March 16, 2010 - FEC Award Requirements for 2011 Posted</title>
	   <link>http://www.federalelectronicschallenge.net/alevels.htm</link>
	   <description><![CDATA[Facility Partners may apply for a 2011 Federal Electronics Challenge Award for electronic stewardship activities completed in fiscal year 2010 - between October 1, 2009 and September 30, 2010. Complete 2011 award applications will be due January 31, 2011.<br /><br />]]></description>
	   <pubDate>March 2010</pubDate>
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