Drupal may be a very silly word, but it's also a very powerful open-source content management system. And they have a camp, too, which is nice.
Several Mightybyters took some time out of their frenetic schedules to attend DrupalCamp, where "Sessions [were] proposed by community volunteers and programming decisions [were] made based on the interests and Drupal experience level of the attendees," according to their literature. What a user-friendly sounding camp!
Tim, our fearless leader, is often coming up with ideas to improve our business. When he suggested recently that our company go green, we all cheered.
Perhaps referring to him as fearless is a tad extreme. When I say he's fearless I mean he doesn't fear irrational things, like, oh, cake. He fears no cake. But he does have rational fears, about things like, say, we humans screwing up our environment so badly that poor ol' Mother Earth can't fix herself back up again. And we, his employees, share that fear.
"But what's the first step in going green?" I asked in a trembling, afraid-of-new-things kind of way.
"Take a look at the 'eco-Andersonville Sustainable Business Certification Program Worksheet'" he boomed in a commanding baritone. Baritonally commanded, I did so. Once finished printing the sizable document I shook my fist at the heavens, suddenly realizing the irony of printing out on mashed-up trees a document specifically dedicated to reducing the amount of things we print out on mashed-up trees. Damn. Karma-wise, I deserved to be chopped up into cubes and scattered about the roots of a young sapling as fertilizer.
In Drive, Daniel H. Pink digs deep to discover what really motivates us in our personal and professional lives.
Do you wake up every day and get excited about the idea of going to work? If not, have I got a book for you. In his follow up to A Whole New Mind, Daniel H. Pink explores the many facets of things that motivate us on professional and personal levels. Using the tenets of a phenomena he calls Motivation 3.0, in which our desire to learn, make choices, and achieve supersedes any sort of 'carrot and stick' rewards-based system, Pink offers many rich examples of companies and individuals who have aligned their lives, businesses and culture around these principles to great success.
‘Industrial agriculture as it exists today is a ticking time bomb that has placed human and environmental health in great jeopardy. The sustainable food movement is transforming both public opinion and the food industry.'
As part of Andersonville Green Week, Free from Harm, an educational and advocacy resource, is staging a multimedia event: Highlights of Sustainable Agriculture in the Media and Film—a montage of footage ‘from some of the leading films and non profits of our time, including Dirt The Movie, Fresh The Movie, Farm Sanctuary, celebrated authors Michael Pollan and David Kirby, as well as Wes Jackson, founder of The Land Institute, to name a few.’
Do you know what ‘fracking’ is and how it affects our air and drinking water? It’s time you do.
Mightybytes is proud to co-sponsor the Chicago theatrical premiere screening of GASLAND: A Film by Josh Fox, along with Andersonville Green Week, and the Peace on Earth Film Festival.
Presented by Chicago Filmmakers, GASLAND is a Special Jury Prize Winner - Sundance Film Festival 2010.