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From the CivicActions Blog: 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…
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.
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. "No, these are people that are politically driven. They want to impose their vision on other…
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.
In mid September nearly the entire CivicActions team will converge in Amsterdam for our fourth Quarterly “off site”. 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 basis to meet each other, share ideas, get aligned, and do amazing things. (You can see photos from earlier offsites on our Flickr group .) This year, as last, our retreat is times to coincide with DrupalCon , this time in Brussles. Arthur, Dan and Ethan will be staying on for DrupalCon. CivicActions is a Gold Sponsor of the conference which will play host to many wonderful discussions about nodes, permissions, relationships and other drupalish things. This will be the third DrupalCon that members of our team have participated in.
It sure has been a while since I last blogged over here, or over at CivicActions . 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…
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 Flight Tracker to calculate the CO2 pollution from specific flight routes. You can then buy a Terra Pass to offset the impact of your flight. Or you can buy Trees For the Future and help repair ecological damage in developing nations at the same time as you remove CO2 from the atmosphere.
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 as a client. Perhaps the Republican firm, DCI, should have given the film maker a bit more direction, they could have attacked Gore on the merrits as in this opinion piece that points out Gore’s hypocracy: owning multiple very large homes, lots of air travel, family ownership in oil stocks and a mining concession that has been accused of polluting on his own property.