Month: January 2007

“Open source software is like free trade, and the invisible hand of the market has the mouse now.”

It used to be so easy, just a few months ago it seemed that planting trees would be enough to offset my carbon footprint and, at the same time, help prevent soil errosion and other enviornmental problems in degraded environments.

CNN ran a report on their blog about presidential politicians’ efforts to secure domain names for their efforts. Among the list of candidates covered in the story was Tom Tancredo.

I am pretty sure I have sung the praises of “Inside Renewable Energy” before, but if you haven’t listened, take a listen to the review of 2006 episode from last week. I like listening to I.R.E. because it highlights so many amazing renewable energy projects that are taking place around the world. it is also…

A followup to my post last night about the effect of “watching the meter” on power consumption. Today’s NYT ran a front page story on a project in Chicago to give rate payers hourly electricity cost information. According to the article, those in the program are using less energy at peak times reducing overall peak…

This was an interesting week in the New York Times. Thursday’s House and Home featured a cover story about home solar (photo voltaic) installations mostly in NY and California where tax incentives encourage home owners to add solar panels.

I just read of Charles Leadbeater’s book project, We-Think on World Changing. Leadbeater and his publisher have pre-released his book about new forms of collaboration and organization. From the introduction:

At CivicActions we know all about open WiFi networks, and I often get asked by friends about “internet security” and specifically, how secure their activities are when they are on open networks. David Pogue covered the issue in his column today. While he believes his wifi traffic is not worth snooping (“Frankly, I consider the…

Bruce Byfield wrote a nice article for Linux.com about the work of our client, the Free Software Foundation in this past year including the DefectiveByDesign campaign.