Gregory Heller

Month: August 2006

  • CivicActions is looking for Engineers

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    <p>From the CivicActions Blog:<br /> <cite><br /> CivicActions, LLC is a "virtual" company specializing in delivering F/OSS applications to a growing list of progressive non-profits, political campaigns, and socially responsible businesses. We build LAMP web apps for our clients using Drupal. We are seeking the right people to join our team of over 20 practitioners…

  • Who Killed the Electric Car?

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    I went to see “Who Killed the Electric Car” over the weekend. It is a nice little documentary that will make you really mad if you are anything like me. Big oil, and big auto have way to much control in our government.

  • "These are people who are politically driven…"

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    <p>The New York Times reported a quote from George Bush earlier this week (it might have been last weekend, i tore the quote out but didn't note the date). that caught my eye for the extreme absurdity of it.</p> <p>"No, these are people that are politically driven. They want to impose their vision on other…

  • NPR and PRI stories worth listening too

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    There were to good stories on NPR and PRI about technology today. The All Things Considered bit is about back to school technology, back to school sales and what is “wanted” vs “needed”. Market Place ran a story about wireless email access and vacations.

  • Going “off-site”: Amsterdam 2006

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    In mid September nearly the entire CivicActions team will converge in Amsterdam for our fourth Quarterly “off siteâ€?. It is an anniversary of sorts, we were in Amsterdam in October of 2005 for our first offsite. As a virtual firm, distributed across the world, we make it a point of coming together on this periodic…

  • Sure has been a while…

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    <p>It sure has been a while since I last blogged over here, or over at <a href="http://www.civicactions.com/blog">CivicActions</a>. I've been pretty busy with work, and catching up on things here in NY. I am getting ready to head out in about a week for Seattle, but I won't be there for long, I fly to Amseterdam…

  • Calculate the CO2 pollution from your flights

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    TerraPass a company that allows the public to buy carbon offsets in the cap-and-trade system (you buy carbon polution that companies are selling basically) to offset CO2 polution from driving has introduced a flight calculator. Visit the

  • Al Gore’s Penguin Army video paid for by Exxon PR firm?

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    Never mind that the penguins look like a little L:inux Penguin, or that the video is actually not funny at all, it seems that this piece of YouTube ephemera mocking Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth” has an inconvenient truth of it’s own: the video seems to have been paid for by a PR firm that counts Exxon…