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Meet our turbocharged lodging model 23 Feb 2012 | 05:00 pm
We’ve just rolled out the latest version of our hotel energy and emissions model, and it includes a number of new advancements that make lodging sustainability quantification more accurate, broadly ap...
Keystone: "XL" is pretty apt 13 Feb 2012 | 05:00 pm
We’re in the midst of 24 Hours to Stop Keystone XL, a day-long push by 35+ organizations to send half a million letters to Senators asking them to stop the pipeline. It’s a worthy, urgent cause and we...
New wind offset project 30 Jan 2012 | 05:00 pm
Time for a new offset project - this time it’s wind turbines on two family farms in northern Iowa. Image credit: NativeEnergy Once again we’re working with our partner NativeEnergy to support a smal...
Cleanweb Hackathon NYC 27 Jan 2012 | 05:00 pm
We’re back from the Cleanweb Hackathon! It was a great weekend of meeting entrepreneurs in the clean tech space, joining forces with some of New York’s finest hackers, and hanging out at NYU’s Interac...
The top 3 things I saw at the Detroit Auto Show 25 Jan 2012 | 05:00 pm
One of the benefits of living in Michigan is getting to swing over to the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. Here are the most interesting sustainability themes I noticed this year. M...
New data from Northstar Travel Media 23 Jan 2012 | 05:00 pm
We’re close to finishing some exciting updates to our Lodging model: soon it will be able to identify the actual hotel a client stayed at and use that property’s physical characteristics to calculate ...
Join us at Cleanweb Hackathon NYC this weekend 19 Jan 2012 | 05:00 pm
We’re psyched to be sponsoring—and participating in—this weekend’s Cleanweb Hackathon in New York City. As usual, we’ll be holding a series of Healthy Hacker activities over the course of the weekend...
Fuzzy match in Ruby 18 Jan 2012 | 05:00 pm
Our fuzzy_match library for Ruby can help link (cross-reference) records across data sources—for example, match up aircraft records from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics and the Federal Aviatio...
Why the Brighter Planet API uses POST 16 Jan 2012 | 05:00 pm
Have we really created a RESTful web service? If so, why are we specifying that users send POST requests to get calculations? I asked this question to the rest of my team and a lively debate ensued am...
285 million pounds and counting 21 Dec 2011 | 05:00 pm
As of today, Brighter Planet’s cardholders have offset more than 285,000,000 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions. By simply using your Brighter Planet credit and debit cards in your daily lives, you’ve...
