Plone Sites
Advancing Green Chemistry
The mission of the non-profit organization Advancing Green Chemistry is to reduce or eliminate hazardous substances from the manufacture and use of chemical products. To that end, they are building collaborative connections between green chemists - who design the products - and environmental health scientists - who understand how the chemicals interact with biological systems. This initiative includes a major conference, follow on meetings, information sharing, and policy development, all of which are aided by a members-only collaborative website. It includes news aggregated from a variety of sources, discussion forums, areas for members to post relevant papers and bibliographies, primers and analyses of important papers in both fields, collaboratively developed policy statements, and member commenting and discussion on all content. (This site is password protected.)
Aqualogic - rainwater harvesting
Aqualogic provides rainwater harvesting solutions. Rainwater is collected from the roofs of houses, tents and local institutions and can be re-used for garden, toilets, swimming-pool refilling or car washing.
B-Sustainable
Many organizations in the Puget Sound collect and publish indicator data relating to the health of the region. B-Sustainable is a project by Sustainable Seattle to re-publish this data within a sustainability indicators framework to make the information meaningful, accessible, and actionable. Web Collective developed a web site in Plone that implements the sustainability framework design and makes it simple for multiple organizations to manage a vast amount of indicator information.
Bay Area Integrated Regional Water Management Plan
The Bay Area Integrated Regional Management Plan is a nine-county effort to coordinate and improve water supply reliability, protect water quality, manage flood protection, maintain public health standards, protect habitat and watershed resources, and enhance the overall health of the bay. We've developed this portal as a digital library and collaboration space for the IRWMP organization. The site catalogs more than 200 project listings and provides a secure intranet workspace for each. These tools were so effecitve that the IRWMP decided to provide secure workspaces to the Bay Area Clean Water Agencies project. We've also built a custom tool for generating e-mail updates of new site content. The open source software developed in this project is now being reused be several other IRWMP collaboratives in California.
Bay Nature Magazine
Bay Nature is "An Exploration of Nature in the SF Bay Area". They've been one of our favorite magazines since they launched in 2001, and we connected with them to build a web version of their publication. We developed a custom Plone-powered content management system and integrated several 3rd party apps and services including OpenAds, the Pleiades Geocoding engine, a robust Varnish-based caching system, and a bespoke mapping application.
BBC/Participate
Innovative education research project led by the BBC. The Participate Schools website allows participating schoolchildren to effectively communicate and share their opinions and findings relating to a number of environmental science projects within a structured, teacher-controlled online environment:
Bioenergy promotion
The Bioenergy Promotion project will promote the development of a sustainable production of and commercialization of biomass in the Baltic Sea Region. The project started in January 2009 and will last for three years. The Swedish Energy Agency coordinates the project, which is a collaboration between 34 participating partners from ten countries around the Baltic Sea: Belarus; Denmark; Estonia; Finland; Germany; Latvia; Lithuania; Norway; Poland and Sweden. This site is a cooperation between Spiro and APT
Bioneers
Bioneers chose FosterMilo Web Architects to move them from Drupal into Plone as a more robust, industrial-strength CMS. The previous site was cluttered and unfocused in part due to the flat content structure used by Drupal. Nobody knew who had published what and where on the site. This made it difficult for the Bioneers to provide clear answers to visitors' most important questions -- who exactly are the Bioneers and what do they do? Plone offered sophisticated workflow and a folderish content structure that facilitates more organized management of content across many different publishers.
Blades Lawn Service
Blades provides lawn care services to the Evansville, IN area. For Blades, Desktop Doctors created a simple informational site for customers.
Cemagref
Cemagref is a major player in environmental science and technologies and reports to both the Research and Agriculture ministries of France. It is a striking example of integrated environmental research focused on the regional scale and on applied solutions.
Centre for Ecology and Hydrology Intranet
The Centre for Ecology & Hydrology is the UK's Centre of Excellence for integrated research in terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems and their interaction with the atmosphere. As part of the Natural Environment Research Council, we provide National Capability based on innovative, independent and interdisciplinary science and long-term environmental monitoring, forming an integral part of NERC's vision and strategy. CEH's Intranet allows the sharing of information across multiple physical sites and a place for researchers to collaborate.
China Research Hub - Social Science Research Council
The China Environment and Health Resource Hub is a searchable online database of resources on environmental and health issues in China. It includes profiles of people and institutions, and links to relevant books, articles, and reports This information is of general interest to those working on the relationship between the environment and health. The site, which is in Chinese and English, made use of Plone's excellent multilingual features.
CMCC - Centro Euro Mediterraneo Cambiamenti Climatici
The Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change is a research organization that studies climate variability, its causes and its consequences, using numerical models ranging from Global Earth System to Regional models within the Euro-Mediterranean area. The Euro-Mediteranean Centre for Climate Change is a Ltd Company (CMCC S.c.a.r.l.) with its registered office and administration in Lecce and local units in Bologna, Venice, Capua, Sasari and Milan. The society doesn't pursue profitable ends and aims to realize and manage the Centre, its promotion, and research coordination and different scientific and applied activities in the field of climate change study. These activities are developed exclusively for the Center's work objectives, and favour collaboration among Universities, national and international research bodies, territorial bodies and the industrial sector. It operates in these circles in the name and on behalf of its consortium partners. The management of the Centre and the research activities developed by its Divisions follows the guidelines listed at the following URL: http://www.cmcc.it/welcome-at-cmccs-web-site?set_language=en
Colorado Alliance for Environmental Education
The CAEE needed to improve its site appearance and usability, allow non-technical content managers to easily add and update site content, while also enable very flexible and customized search capabilities on its vast database of environmental programs, events, and organizations. Contextual provide site design, database integration, and custom development expertise to make this site a reality on a very lean budget.
Concert'Eau
Collaborative technological plateform for European Water Directive Framework implementation within agricultural context
Conservation Northwest
Since 1989 Conservation Northwest has worked to connect wildlands from the Washington Coast to the BC Rockies for the benefit of wildlife and people. Twenty-three staff, spread out in four different offices around the state, combine outreach, communication, and science skills with passion and innovation to help "keep the Northwest wild."
Contra Costa Watershed Forum
The Forum is an open committee of some fifty organizations, including state and local agencies, local non-profit environmental and education organizations, community volunteer groups, and private citizens. This site provides CCWF with both a public-facing web presence as well as secure intranet workspaces for their various committees. The group uses this site to organize and promote their many activities in the watershed including volunteer creek monitoring, annual creek cleanup day. The site also features spaces for job announcements and a group calendaring solution.
Cosumnes, American, Bear, and Yuba Rivers IRWMP
An IRWMP is a comprehensive planning document prepared on a region-wide scale that identifies priority water resources projects and programs with multiple benefits. This site was built to support the CABY group through the information-intensive process of developing their IRWMP.
Earth Island Institute - Restoration Initiatives
Earth Island works to grow environmental leadership by supporting individuals and organizations that take action to protect the environment. By funding the Small Grants Program of the SCWRP, we fund a process that restores wetlands, educates communities, and builds organizational capacity.