This year we have again used TerraPass to purchase carbon offsets for our home, cars and air travel. While this isn’t my idea of an ideal solution, or even a solution at all really, it is at least a step in the right direction. Read More…

I’ve been re-introduced to some social networking tools this past few weeks. I was thinking I’d build a custom Joomla website for the Patagonia Tools for Grassroots Organizer’s Conference I’ll be attending at the end of the month, and then had the idea that I was really missing an opportunity to do something better — and easier.

Instead of a Joomla site, I’ll be using Ning. Read More…

WhatAreTheyWaitingFor.com

If you have the opportunity to ask a politician where they stand on global climate change, do it. Get him or her on record. Share that record. Make a difference.

I heard at work this week that I’ve been selected to attend the Tools for Grassroots Organizers Conference to be held at the end of April at the Stanford Sierra Conference Center. I’m excited to attend but hope some day to be selected to present as well. I think I have a lot to offer NGOs with regards to how to setup a professional web presence without a huge price tag

In the coming weeks, I plan on writing a blog outlining the web tools I would recommend for any Tools conference participant.

After six months, I’ve finally gotten back to some work on Advocacy - my Joomla component for providing non-profits and NGOs with a tool for creating email and letter writing campaigns. I originally worked on this component for the Nevada Wilderness Project during a Patagonia Internship and it was pretty bare boned at that time.

Now it’s feeling pretty polished. Read More…