Ivan Enviroman

E-Billing: the Most Overlooked Green Practice?

Posted by Ivan Storck | Filed under Uncategorized

I use FreshBooks for billing via email. It makes great looking estimates and invoices. And, it allows online payment via Visa, Mastercard, Amex, PayPal, and Electronic Checks.

Billing clients and consumers electronically saves time, money, and the environment. So why are you still sending paper bills?

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Tags: accounting, billing, business, ebilling, freshbooks

Read more | Comments (0) | October 20, 2008

AppLoop brings automated application development to the iPhone

Posted by Ivan Storck | Filed under Web Design

With the iPhone SDK , Apple is pioneering a new mobile development platform that is ahead of it’s time; however, this innovation comes with a major caveat: It requires Cocoa (or Objective-C ) programming knowledge. … AppLoop is a brand-new service that allows anyone with a web browser and RSS feed to create an application similar to the AP News app and submit it to the App Store — without ever writing a single line of code.

Tags: iphone, rss, Web Design, webdesign

Read more | Comments (0) | October 20, 2008

Eco Friendly CDs

Posted by Ivan Storck | Filed under Uncategorized

Mirror Image Media Solutions offers many “Green Solutions” for your printing and packaging needs. While they continue to offer standard packaging in plastic and vinyl, they have added recycled and organic products to address current environmental concerns.

Ink: All are vegetable based. (Linseed Oil-mild and ecologically sensitive.) Blanket wash fluid has the lowest VOC content available. [...]

Tags: cd, dvd, marketing, packaging

Read more | Comments (0) | October 20, 2008

Making Carbon Offsets Actually Work. Affordably.

Posted by Ivan Storck | Filed under Sustainability

The path from offset purchase to impact made has been muddied by lack of transparency on how much of your money paid goes to purchasing actual offsets versus to the company you bought them from.
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Tags: Uncategorized

Read more | Comments (2) | October 17, 2008

WHM XML API Ruby

Posted by Ivan Storck | Filed under Web Design

I’m working on a ruby wrapper to the WHM (Web Host Manager) XML API. It is on GitHub and it is under an MIT open source license.
This code can be used to manage a reseller account on a web host that uses the WHM/Cpanel system. It can install new accounts, suspend/unsuspend accounts and other [...]

Tags: api, github, opensource, ruby, web host manager, web hosting, whm, xml

Read more | Comments (0) | October 12, 2008

404 error pages in Rails

Posted by Ivan Storck | Filed under Web Design

I’m always trying to encourage visitors to my website to find the right information. I’m also pretty lazy with typing and want to be able to just guess at URL’s and see if they work.
The new website system for Sustainable Websites, built in Ruby on Rails, has articles (called posts in WordPress) and pages. I [...]

Tags: 404, rails, ruby on rails, rubyonrails, Web Design

Read more | Comments (0) | October 1, 2008

Vertical Reponse Email is Green and Free

Posted by Ivan Storck | Filed under Uncategorized

Well, it’s free for 501(c)3 nonprofits, up to 10,000 emails a month. Vertical response is a Email marketing company that offers email newsletter services. I am also impressed with their green activities in their office.

Tags: email, email marketing, green business, marketing, technology

Read more | Comments (0) | September 30, 2008

Strategies for Good Trades, Partners, and Billable Work

Posted by Ivan Storck | Filed under Uncategorized

I am a consultant and I usually bill my services hourly. Some clients seem to be confused about what type of work is billable, and what the line between “partnership” and billable work is. Also, I’ve been getting a lot of requests for trades (bartering) lately, so I’d like to clarify what makes a good [...]

Tags: business, consulting, partners, trades

Read more | Comments (0) | September 29, 2008

Today is Earth Overshoot Day

Posted by Ivan Storck | Filed under Sustainability

It’s the day our demand surpasses nature’s budget. I dig getting an email notification of this event every year.

On September 23rd this year we mark an unfortunate milestone: As of today, humanity will have consumed all the new resources the planet will produce this year, according to Global Footprint Network calculations. For the rest of [...]

Tags: earthovershoot, globalfootprint, Sustainability

Read more | Comments (0) | September 23, 2008