Read this story by Campus Progress Advocacy Associate Tommaso Boggia, who on Dec 2 attended the White House’s Youth Clean Energy Economy Forum, a landmark conference with the president’s administration on what they are doing to address climate change.
Tommaso quoted me in the story:
“A Clean Energy Economy Forum hosted by the White House would have [...]

Ancient papyrus, modern newsprint, radio and television broadcasts. By way of these media have we consumed information in the past. No more.
ABC, CBS, NBC dictated our reality yesterday, but Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube define the times today. In remarkable ways does this highway of new media networks enable The People to communicate. We are the [...]

It’s been a while since I last wrote about my (volunteer) work for Sustainable Alachua County. Back in March of this year, I started to build a social network for the Gainesville nonprofit using BuddyPress, an impressive suite of plugins for the WordPress MU platform.
But I put the BuddyPress project on hold when my colleague [...]

I’ve been helping my grandmother manage a blog she uses to document her past and present travels. In the last couple of months, she’s written 35 well-researched articles (in Spanish), complete with scenic photos of her trips. Her dedication to blogging is inspiring, and I’m sure she will see success given some time.
When you first [...]

Did you know only 9 fonts are considered “web safe,” since they are the only ones installed by default on both Windows and Mac computers?
The good news is you now have a reason to quit arguing with your design team about what obscure fonts to use on your website. The bad news is that, in [...]

Riding a bike in Miami is an act of humility.

It is to ride on sidewalks poorly-paved, swerving constantly to avoid bus benches placed right on the pavement and dead palm tree branches strewn across your path.
It is to tolerate motorists, many in SUVs, who are in a rush and have no experience dealing [...]

At the Power Shift ‘09 workshop I attended called “Your Email Crisi-tunity: Building Your List, Organizing Fundraising & Connecting With Your Base,” Iain Keith of Avaaz.org and Jon Warnow of 350.org took down our email addresses to get back to us later with more information.
They created a Google Group called “powershift09 email workshop” and invited [...]

I was just looking at some photos from Power Shift 2009 and recalling all the energy that was in D.C. last weekend (Feb 27).
12,000 young people went to Washington to address the climate issue — which Iain Keith from Avaaz.org called a “crisi-tunity” in his workshop on email campaigning.
“Crisi-tunity,” a supposedly-Chinese word coined [...]

It’s more rewarding to blog when you know people are actually reading, one reason why I made it a point to think of a way to get people to subscribe to the Gators for a Sustainable Campus (GSC) website.
What we did was send a message out to our 500+ member Facebook group asking people [...]

The website for Sustainable Alachua County (SAC) is evolving. Today I set up a community foundation for the site using BuddyPress, an open source social networking platform based around WordPress Mu. The website is starting to become what I want it to be.
Although the current design is nothing impressive — and a logo for [...]

Ekendra Dasa from Gainesville writes an insightful story about the pleasures of riding a bicycle.

I’ve got a simple website up now for Sustainable Alachua County (SAC). We recently had an inspiring stakeholder meeting to discuss how SAC can be a virtual & physical hub for sustainability in Gainesville. My focus is primarily on the virtual part.

The site right now is not much more than a few static pages with [...]

I recently returned to Miami from a 6-week study abroad stint in Utrecht, the Netherlands, and I’ve been thinking a lot about the way we organize our society compared to the Dutch.

I used to think we could remedy the destructive car culture we have in the United States simply by adding more bus routes, bike [...]