Environment

Bicycles are fantastic: they replace greenhouse gas-emitting vehicles with pollution-free health and fitness machines. We are proud to be Bicycle Victoria's major online software developer because, as well as promoting bicycle riding and providing great member benefits, they are transforming the traffic landscape of Victoria. 

As well as Bicycle Victoria's website, e-commerce and membership management system, we have also developed the software for their active transport campaigns such as Ride2School.

Waterwatch Victoria manages volunteers across the State who monitor the quality of local waterways. The Waterwatch website includes easy-to-use authoring tools that can be securely distributed to content experts who work around the state. We are now working with Waterwatch to redesign their water quality database.

Port Phillip and Westernport Catchment Management Authority needed to promote its land reclamation project, Grow West, and reduce the cost of publishing information. Boojum developed the Grow West website.

The lack of outcomes from the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Conference seems to show that the political climate is harder to change than the planetary one. We have been unable to push our governments towards effective action.

Climate change deniers are analogous to the tobacco lobby, who prevented medical researchers from stating the link between lung cancer and smoking for 30 years. We don't have 30 years to win the climate change argument.

It is tempting to become sceptical; the majority has been out-manoeuvred by various lobby groups, like coal and (de)forestry. They are doing their job as they see it. We need to do ours.

Individual action is great, but we need to get better at collective action if we are to demolish the political roadblocks to effective change. Community organisations are key.