Environment

The Center For Climate and Energy Solutions Make An Impact Project works with corporations, their employess and surrounding communities to educate and motivate individual action to reduce carbon footprints.  The Schools Challenge works with students at schools across the country to reduce their family's impact through a pledge to reduce energy consumption and recycle.

CivicActions (CA) was approached by Chedd Angier Lewis (CAL) to submit a joint proposal in response to RFP issued by The Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) for website development to complement the Human Origins exhibition launching in April 2010.

The Great Turtle Race returned with a different course after the massive success of the first year (this time sponsored by one of the original sponsors, Drexel University). Once again the CivicActions team designed an accessible way to bring awareness to the annual migration of these lovable leatherback turtles.

Over a series of training sessions and periodic consulting we have worked with Good Food Strategies to develop social media strategies involving Twitter, a listening program using Google Reader that feeds into a weekly news headlines communication for the organizations stakeholders and clients. Gregory Heller continues to provide expert consulting to support Good Food Strategies' team in their important mission to promote good food policies at the local, state and national level.

EcoTuesday is a social venture startup that needed a website to tell its story, connect members to one another, and make it easy for participants to sign up for events.

We began our engagement with a detailed discussion of strategy to determine the priority of features, as well a solution to meet the future needs of a growing organization. Open source tools were the preference of the client, which aligned with their core value of sustainability.

Architecture for Humanity came to us with a highly-customized site they had built with an early version of Drupal. However, when the site was launched many features were not functioning properly or working as they desired. Additionally, the lack of on-going maintenance of the contributed modules they used provided little flexibility to move forward with further development.

Conservation Strategy Fund (CSF) came to CivicActions to upgrade and update their Drupal 4.6 site with a visually appealing, Drupal 6 site showcasing CSF analysis projects, research publications and training programs. The site also incorporates CSF's new geo-economic HydroCalculator tool. By using a site taxonomy that includes both topics and geographic terms, users are able to filter by geographic location or topic.

CivicActions worked with the Conservation Strategy Fund to build an online geo-economic HydroCalculator tool that empowers citizens, conservationists and scientists worldwide to make informed judgments about the effectiveness of proposed and existing hydro-electric power stations and understand and evaluate better and more accurately projects with excessive environmental, social or economic costs or low energy potential.

After the successful launch of RealitySandwich.com in 2007, the editorial team behind that project came back to CivicActions with a plan for a site that added more social networking functionality and user generated content -- Evolver.  Evolver is a social network for conscious collaboration. It provides a platform for individuals, communities, and organizations to discover and share the new tools, initiatives, and ideas that will improve our lives and change the world. Evolver promotes sexy sustainability, yoga glamour, and shaman chic.

JustCauseIt.com is the online community and social media companion to the JUSTCAUSE Magazine - first issue launched in July 2009. The site features social networking and groups functionality and aims to shine a bright light on individuals, corporations and change agents who are working for the greater good.  Users can create "Causes" and ask others to join them in making positive change in their local community or the world at large, post blog entries, or events alongside editorial content that will appear in the magazine.