Month: January 2008

Over the last few days there were some emails traded back and forth internally about the 2008 US Presidential race. We’ve got an international team and some of the folks who do not live in the US, as well as some who have relocated to the US were expressing some level of bewilderment about the…

Seattle, Oakland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York… And the airports of those cities are just some of the places I’ve worked from in the last two weeks. I get through security and my eyes shoot furtive glances at the bottom 2 feet of walls searching (sometimes in vain) for a power outlet, preferably one…

At CivicActions we talk a lot about the lifestyle implications of the way we work. Many “remote” or “virtual” workers will rave about the freedom of working from home, or the benefits of not having a commute. But I think we all know that there are challenges that come with the benefits, and each of…

I am at Jenn’s house for the upcoming project managers’ retreat, and have been playing with an XO (OLPC). After spending far too much time trying to open it, and far too much time trying to save a document, and far too much time playing with TamTamJam (the music program) I decided to try to…

Sign the petition demanding that political reporters ask the presidential candidates about climate change.

In my ongoing campaign to think and be carbon neutral, and spread the message far and wide, I asked the DrupalCon Boston organizers to post information about offsetting the carbon footprint associated with traveling to DrupalCon in March.I hope that individuals and shops will consider purchasing offsets for their DrupalCon associated travel, as well as…

Just before the holiday break, I spoke with Alyssa Royce, Editor of JUSTCAUSE about non profits, the internet and the social networking (full disclosure: they are one of our clients, and I worked with them on the site which launched at the end of the summer).  Alyssa was researching an article on nonprofits and social…

CivicActions has been a proud sponsor of all manner of Drupal events, most recently our Gold Sponsorship of DrupalCon in Barcelona, September 2007, but also Drupal Camps in New York, Seattle, Toronto and Berkeley.  Last year when the Drupal Association started accepting donations a number of our partners and contractors made donations.

GOOD Magazine’s January/February 2008 IDEAS! issue features the WITNESS Video Hub.

As folks might know, I’m a bit of an eco-geek.  I’ve been talking about my carbon footprint for a few years now and can remember when it might cause someone’s eyes to completely glaze over.  But then we learned about An Inconvenient Truth, a new island was discovered after part of Greenland’s ice sheet melted,…