ChildHonouring.org Goes Live!

Our latest, greatest project went live recently! ChildHonouring.org is up and ready for you. Please visit and check out all the wonderful information on Raffi’s transformative philosophy, including free book downloads, free songs, and lots more. CB&F has...

Climate Action Day

Saturday, 24 October 2009, is the Global Day of Action for Climate Change. If you haven’t heard about it yet, please visit 350.org for just a few minutes, and read about the thousands of events around the world organized to bring attention to the threat of...

Car Free for Five Days

I saw this in the paper, but forgot about the online version. I went “car free” for five days a while ago, and earned $50 for my trouble. The current thought is to use this as seed money for a “yellow bike” sharing program for Ganges, here on...

Abundance vs. Scarcity Thinking in Tech

Chris Anderson, Wired Magazine’s Editor in Chief, has written a thought-provoking article for the latest edition of said magazine. Tech Is Too Cheap to Meter: It’s Time to Manage for Abundance, Not Scarcity presents views from his latest book about how the...

130% Wind Powered Servers

The computers that run all of our hosting here at Charles Buchwald & Friends can use a lot of energy. Despite the fact that the hardware we use is Energy Star compliant, it’s still a lot of heat and energy required to keep them running around the clock,...

One Dollar Diet Project

I stumbled across this blog a while ago. This couple decided to see what it would be like to eat on USD $1 per day, and they wrote about it every day for a month. It was such a simple thing, but powerful. Maybe reading it all at once won’t have the same impact,...

BikeCommuters.com

Now that Spring has officially sprung, it’s a great time to think about more biking. What’s not to like about healthy exercise that cuts down on car use and puts us more in contact with the world around us? (Well… if you live where I do, I suppose...