Results show an upward trend toward sustainability. How does your company fare?

Climate Counts is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization that strives to fight climate change by helping consumers use their choices and voices to put pressure on the world’s largest companies to take corporate climate action. Results from their 5th Annual Company Scorecard Report seem to show that global corporations are increasingly acknowledging climate change as reality and are adopting measures to reduce their emissions and environmental impact.

Developers and designers from as far away as South Africa and Australia recently journeyed to Brooklyn for The 2011 ExpressionEngine CodeIgniter Conference. Tai and James were among them. Here’s what they learned.

Mightybytes has built a number of our favorite sites in EE, including: The Chicago Diabetes Project, Court Theatre and most importantly, our own site, mightybytes.com. ExpressionEngine is a unique product; although it’s built on the CodeIgniter open-source framework and popular with an open-source-minded development community, the CMS itself remains a commercial product from EllisLab. Unlike many commercial CMS’s, ExpressionEngine is very in touch with its user base and values its community highly, and the EECI conference made this quite apparent.

Far from the high-powered Drupalcon Chicago in March, EECI took place at the Invisible Dog Art Gallery, former factory for the 80’s fad toy. (Allegedly, when the current owners took over the space, they found all of the raw materials for toy assembly still in the basement.)

Today is the 1st annual Food Day. But what's Food Day you ask?

Food Day is a grassroots event sponsored by the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest to improve the U.S. food system. Its efforts include reducing diet-related diseases such as diabetes, expanding access to healthful food, and promoting locally sourced and sustainable food options.

Our final Lunch-n-Learn was a feast where Tim put together an amazing assortment of vegetarian options.

As we wound down our Lunch-n-Learn season we all reflected on everything that we’ve eaten and discussed throughout the summer.

There were so many inspiring presentations in CUSP Conference 2011 that I could not cram them all into one blog post. So here is the rest of the best.

The CUSP Conference experience has been described as inspirational, funny, thought-provoking, informative, humbling, touching, creative and the list goes on. After attending the event, I got to see why first-hand.