[bit.ly] # Wow, I've never been on the North Haven ferry in the dark…creepy cool! # No garbage trucks, recycling scavengers, sirens, Ian is only waking up once per night and Grandparents to help makes a happy dad in [...]
Great looking sustainability posters
[...]Whether you’re a photographer, graphic designer, Web designer or any other kind of visual artist, WordPress makes an excellent starting point for developing your online portfolio. And with the wealth of plug-ins and ready-made themes available, you can usually get a perfectly presentable website up and running in a matter [...]
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master by Andrew Hunt
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
A little dated if you’re using a framework like Ruby on Rails, but definitely worth reviewing and further study. Lots of great practices. I [...]
I wrote an article on the Sustainable Websites Blog on a quick program to Generate Random Passwords.
[...]I got a DSLR camera! Thanks Nicole! I am super excited to use it. Not all of these photos are from it, just the last ones.
[...]If you have a mac and use Mac Mail, I found a great step-by-step tutorial on how to set up your mac to send and receive encrypted email.
Why you would ever need to send encrypted email? Well, if you are a web site owner or designer, you should never [...]
Since the Federal Trade Commission filed three complaints against retailers in early June, manufacturers have certainly taken notice and are re-evaluating the way they introduce environmental claims.
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Your business has been designing more environmentally friendly products for the past 15 years. Your marketing team is trained to make accurate and truthful environmental claims about your products. Your company wholeheartedly believes in its sustainability efforts. Think you're immune to' [...]
If an advocacy group is successful, companies and individuals may one day be able to promote their environmental and sustainability initiatives on the Web with a .eco domain name.
Dot Eco LLC is petitioning ICANN, the [...] 
The American Marketing Association (AMA) in coordination with public relations firm Fleishman-Hillard, has been studying the state of sustainability during the down economy from a communications perspective and found that things are not dire. In fact, discussions about sustainability are soaring at America’s corporations. According to [...]
The ability to easily bookmark or share content on popular social media platforms is now a must have feature for web sites. It’s also important that this feature isn’t over looked by web site visitors. So it’s always a good idea to use icons when linking to social media sites. [...]
The green movement is bigger than your crunchy granola friends from college. And the web is a tool to meet, inform and motivate people who want to make the world a better place. At our afternoon web panel at Green:Net, participants shared captivating observations about how their audiences and members [...]
Greener World Media is accepting inquiries for innovators from both small and large companies to do lightning-fast (6-8 minute) presentations at Greener by Design, May 19-20 in San Francisco.
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The White Tiger: A Novel by Aravind Adiga
My review
rating: 4 of 5 stars
Great read for vacation. Let me know if you want to borrow it.
A new report from GreenBiz.com looks at the ways companies are successfully reaching their customers with green messages, and in this interview with the authors of the report, we explore some of the strategies and pitfalls in the green economy.
[...]A new report from GreenBiz.com looks at the ways companies are successfully reaching their customers with green messages, and in this interview with the authors of the report, we explore some of the strategies and pitfalls in the green economy.
When upgrading an old ruby on rails 1.2 application to rails 2.2.2, I ran into a frustrating, somewhat un-google-able error, so I’m writing down the solution here.
If you get a render with invalid options error, the solution is to uninstall the textmate footnotes plugin, and use the rails-footnotes plugin instead.
Thanks [...]
Each year, Hollywood’s finest parade down the red carpet in hopes of fetching one of the film industry’s top honors: an Academy Award. In the spirit of the upcoming Oscars, SustainLane is giving out green film awards - for the best green films. They’ve listed favorites from 5 different [...]
SustainLane, your everything go green web portal has launched a page with articles and resources for evangelical environmentalists. Also known as the topic of Creation Care, the greening of [...]
Get your geek on for the one and only 1234567890 day. On this Friday, Feb 13 at exactly 3:31 (PST), Unix time (WTF is Unix time?) will equal ‘1234567890′.
[...]Get your geek on for the one and only 1234567890 day. On this Friday, Feb 13 at exactly 3:31 (PST), Unix time (WTF is Unix time?) will equal ‘1234567890′.
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A variety of industries have been racing to eliminate toxic substances from their products, and the t-shirt screen printing business is no exception. California entrepreneurs Peter Imai and David Whitaker have taken advantage of this trend by creating Ecoprintworks.com, a site that [...]
Environmental financing has exceeded $3 billion, past its goal of providing $1 billion in commitments to Earth-friendly projects and doing so two years earlier than expected. “Our environmentally-focused investments and loans are a significant new area of business for Wells Fargo,” said Barry Neal, director of Environmental Finance…
New research by Moen Inc., a plumbing products manufacturer, found that consumers are more likely to choose green products when they offer both long-term value and third-party certification of greenness, Kitchen & Bath Design News reports.
When Moen asked consumers, ?If a retailer raised prices to be more [...] 
One thing that I find increasingly anachronistic on the Web is the stubborn persistence of the PDF download. I really don’t need to download more junk onto my computer, especially if it is only something I am going to look at once or twice. Every document should just [...]
No, this post is not about about some African bluegrass band.
SustainLane’s show about helping kids go green is called Green Gorilla. This new episode is about mountaintop removal. Mountaintop removal is a radical form of coal mining in which entire mountains are literally blown up — and [...]
Congrats to Chellie and Hannah and the Working Waterfront for a great article about how island politics being intensely local has lessons for national politics and sustainability.
Hannah is the youngest woman ever to be elected as speaker of any state legislature in the country, according to Millie McFarland, clerk [...]
The Inside AdWords blog announced the beta launch of Google's Search-based Keyword Tool. To some degree the tool is a Compete.com knock off, but with a number of exceptions
Anyone who got into Rails a few years ago should remember a very popular "building a weblog in 15 minutes video" by David Heinemeier Hansson. It was potentially responsible for most of Rails' ongoing success as the video demonstrated all of the beauty of Rails in [...]
Posted by Tom_C
I like talking about link building - it is, after all, one of the most important rankings factors (hey Rand, when's that going to be updated?) and also one of the things people struggle with the most in the SEO industry. So here are some [...]
Typically, the windows on envelopes that come with your bills and other mail are made from plastic. While even just a small percentage of the envelopes, the plastic can take decades to finally breakdown, but only after slowly leaching chemicals into the soil. Plastics also inefficient because [...]
