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  1. Posted by derek on Friday, January 27, 2012.

    Cleanweb Hackathon NYC

    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 Interactive Telecommunications space.

    Hacking

    Image credit: @greenskeptic, Instagram

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  2. Posted by derek on Wednesday, January 25, 2012.

    The top 3 things I saw at the Detroit Auto Show

    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. Derek at the auto show

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  3. Posted by Ian on Monday, January 23, 2012.

    New data from Northstar Travel Media

    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 energy use and emissions.

    A key piece in this process is the hotel database we just purchased from Northstar Travel Media.

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  4. Posted by Andy on Thursday, January 19, 2012.

    Join us at Cleanweb Hackathon NYC this weekend

    We’re psyched to be sponsoring—and participating in—this weekend’s Cleanweb Hackathon in New York City.

    Yoga at EcoHackNYC

    As usual, we’ll be holding a series of Healthy Hacker activities over the course of the weekend. (Above is a shot of the Healthy Hacker yoga class we held during EcoHackNYC in November.)

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  5. Posted by Seamus on Wednesday, January 18, 2012.

    Fuzzy match in Ruby

    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 Aviation Administration:

    screenshot of the BTS aircraft data source screenshot of the FAA aircraft data source

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