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 Status: In Development
Description: CleanEnergy BioFuel collects used cooking oil from restaurants and industrial kitchens in parts of Tennessee and Georgia. They then convert that oil, through a patented process, to make “biodiesel” fuel for large fleets of trucks and buses in the region. The oil collected is used exclusively for clean fuel transporation, thus helping to reduce air pollution in the region and reduce greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. All collections are done free of charge. CleanEnergy BioFuel is an initiative of the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE), a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that promotes responsible energy choices that solve global warming problems and ensure clean, safe and healthy communities throughout the Southeast.
Role: Web Development, SEO, Marketing
 Classical TV's new website Status: Launched
Description: The future of music and arts television has finally arrived! Now that high-speed broadband is widely available, and mainstream audiences are watching longer-form videos online, Classical TV brings a global audience the largest and best destination for performing arts videos online - with the most impressive content and the most prestigious content partners. Classical TV is a viewer-friendly, ever-changing destination at www.classicaltv.com, offering videos of the best classical performances from around the world. The site combines frequent live and as-live special events - hot-ticket performances from the world’s great opera houses, theaters, and concert halls - with an exclusive library of full-length videos of current and recent performing arts events, all available for streaming on your home computer. In addition, Classical TV offers a wealth of lively, informative, and decidedly unstuffy feature articles, topical playlists, insider columns, and cultural news that give fresh insights into the exciting world of classical performance. New features are added all the time. Classical TV’s roster of writers and commentators includes some of the world’s most respected cultural journalists.
Role: Specialized Outreach
 THE HEIGHTS at Avery Heights Status: Launched
Description: THE HEIGHTS at Avery Heights is one of Conneticut’s premiere retirement communities. This spring they launched their new website, which was really more of a facelift to their existing website since they were essentially happy with it. The site now more accurately reflects all tha Avery has to offer: a new aquatic center, walking trails, fitness center, upcoming media center, villager gift store, activities and events, independent living, and a continuum of health-related services. The site was designed is for viewing by those who might be visually challenged, with a text size button on every page to ramp up the font size.
Role: design, development, copy editing, SEO
 CT Valley Driving Club Status: Launched
Description: I recently produced a new website for the Connecticut Valley Driving Club for which I chose the same theme used for my own website. I added a few more features, such as: a resident FLICKR photo album which auto pulls and cache’s those photos on the club’s FLICKR site; MP3 player; an events calendar with Google maps; the Share This social networking feature; auto-rotating banner; RSS feed, and so forth. Like many developers, I’m like a kid in a candy store with the continually evolving WordPress Content Management System. It’s very robust, and of course with the open source community of developers and foolproof interface, it’s like a dream come true for those of us who have been doing this sort of thing for a long time!
Role: Soup to Nuts on this one
Status: Awaiting Phase II CPB Decision, spring ‘09
Description: During Phase I Prototype Development, the Center on Congress and its partners began to develop an innovative 3-D virtual role playing game called Oceana: A Virtual Democracy, along with companion television, website, and a Professional Development program to support teachers and all learners of civics, including parents, community organizers, school boards, politicians, and the press. The prototype phase has received grant support from CPB, the MacArthur Foundation, the AT&T Foundation and the Paul Ogle Foundation of Indiana. The project now progresses to phase II production and deployment. The Honorable Lee H. Hamilton leads the Center on Congress at Indiana University, which has established partnerships with the Center for Civic Education, the Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools, The Close Up Foundation, and WTIU, Bloomington.
Role: Web and Educational Outreach direction and support.
 Clean Energy's Footprint Blog Status: Launched
Description: Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE), a leading voice for energy reform to protect the quality of life and treasured places in the Southeast for more than 20 years, has launched its new Clean Energy Footprints Blog. Founded in 1985, SACE is the only regional organization primarily focused on developing clean energy solutions throughout the Southeast. The nation’s growing interest and awareness of energy issues and climate change has quickly increased opportunities for the organization to work toward its mission. In 2003, Georgians for Clean Energy (formerly Campaign for Prosperous Georgia) merged with SACE, and now SACE has offices and staff throughout the Southeast.
SACE is made up of a hardworking, dedicated group of talented professionals, equipped with a diverse set of skills and expertise to tackle our energy challenges, harness economic opportunities and address environmental consequences like climate change. We are committed to ensuring that communities throughout the Southeast never have to choose between a healthy environment and a stable economy. The Clean Energy Footprints Blog is the news outlet for the organizations talented staff.
Role: Web consultant on implementation of blog and staff training, in alliance with Top Floor Studios.
 Andrew Hyra Status: Launched
Description: Andrew Hyra has launched his new website with improved content management features, music player and store. Hyra is founding member of the melodic folk/rock duo Billy Pilgrim with Kristian Bush of Sugarland. Hyra and Bush were Atlantic recording artists with MTV and VH1 appearances. Hyra has shared the stage with uch artists as John Mayer, Melissa Etheridge, the Cowboy Junkies, Richard Thompson, and Dan Hicks. His next CD, CURIOS, will be released in 2009. Select Billy Pilgrim CDs now available on iTunes.
Role: Design through launch, all aspects.
 Southern Alliance for Clean Energy's website Status: Launched
Description: As the leading voice of renewable energy issues in the Southeast, the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy has officially launched a new multidimensional Web site, created to enhance communication between diverse audiences. Visit www.cleanenergy.org to see this newly designed communication tool providing up-to-date information about energy news in the Southeast.
“This unique Web site provides opportunities for residents throughout the Southeast to influence the energy revolution SACE is calling for,” said Stephen A. Smith, executive director for the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy. “While our nation and our world face great challenges surrounding how we produce and consume energy, this Web site will provide insight into the solutions we need, such as energy efficiency techniques, renewable energy and smart grid technologies.” Within the new site, visitors have an opportunity to “Calculate your Impact,” or “Take Action,” two areas which provide users the chance to directly affect the issues they care about. And because SACE provides solutions in five key states – North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Georgia and Tennessee – a custom web page has been created for each of these areas to help residents track important environmental developments near their home.
Role: Web Consultant on behalf of SACE working with Top Floor Studios in Asheville, NC.
 David Hoffman's Sputnik Mania! Status: Launched
Description: SPUTNIK MANIA is a fascinating, award-winning film by David Hoffman, based on Paul Dickson’s bestselling book Sputnik: The Shock of the Century. The film is being released to theatre and tv audiences by History (Channel) Films. Hoffman, has 40 years of movie-making experience, including over one hundred television specials and four feature documentaries. Actor Liev Schreiber narrates the film with his dramatic and instantly recognizable style of storytelling. The film leads us through the first year following the launch of Sputnik. In 1958, a nuclear weapon was tested in the atmosphere by either Russia or the United States every three days. By the end of that year, nothing was the same. Sputnik spurred us into an arms and space race, necessitating the creation of an academic army of scientists and engineers.
Role: Educational website, educational materials development and outreach
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