Our technology writing
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Fuzzy match in Ruby
Our fuzzy_match library for Ruby can help link (cross-reference) records across data sources̵...
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Stamp PDFs with Prawn and Pdftk
In order to generate PDFs with a standard template, Brighter Planet uses a combination of Prawn a...
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Add node.js/CommonJS style require() to client-side JavaScript with browserify
While working on Careplane recently, I ran into a problem that was made easier by JSONPath. I was...
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Stream parser with Ragel and Ruby
You can use Ragel to make simple stream parsers in Ruby. By “stream parser,” I mean o...
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A Pattern for JavaScript Events
While working on Hootroot and Careplane, I found myself getting frustrated with the way I was hav...
Our open source software
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Top corporate sustainability trends to watch in 2012
As sustainability practices continue to mature, recent events and trends have set the stage for significant shifts in 2012.
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Greening the Workplace 2011
Engaging Employees to Benefit the Planet and the Bottom Line — the findings from our second biennial survey on the extent and nature of staff sustainability initiatives include industry trends and keys to success
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Growing the Green Apps Ecosystem: Best Practices for Data Providers
Green apps have enormous potential to mitigate increasing threats to the environment by using new data to power more sustainable decisions. This paper explores best practices data providers, such as government agencies, can use to facilitate the development of green apps.
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Air Travel Carbon and Energy Efficiency
Brighter Planet, using an advanced flight carbon and energy model, analyzed more than a decade of commercial airline databases to reveal new details of disparities between the most and least environmentally friendly airlines for travelers. This report presents our findings, including detailed airline efficiency rankings, an examination of the five key drivers of energy efficiency, and an analysis of the huge economic and environmental benefits of the past decade's fuel efficiency improvements.
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Eco-efforts Take On Supply Chain
Improving the quality of carbon emissions data is critical to facilitate accurate and efficient reporting of travel emissions and to support travel supply chain decision- making.
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The American Carbon Foodprint
Understanding and reducing your food's impact on climate change
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Employee Engagement Survey Report
An Analysis of the Extent and Nature of Employee Sustainability Programs
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Carbon Modeling Methodology
The philosophy, architecture, equations, and data sources behind our carbon emissions models.
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Transparency in scientific software: Brighter Planet's approach
Brighter Planet strives to be clear and open on each of the three fundamental building-blocks in a scientific calculation: model design, reference data, and calculation execution.
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Tronprint: A new solution for measuring the impact of cloud apps
One of the major factors contributing to an organization’s sustainability, especially for web application companies, is the carbon footprint associated with IT operations.Brighter Planet has developed an innovative new program, Tronprint, to take an “inside-out” approach to determining the energy usage for applications written in Ruby.
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Zero-downtime deploys for critical web services
Moving to the cloud can provide many advantages. However, how do you achieve 99.9% uptime if you have to take your web services down completely whenever you make an update? Brighter Planet’s CM1 product is one of our core services and we consider any downtime unacceptable.