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 Ride to School and Ride to Work.

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.

And in other watery matters, we work with the Great Ocean Road Coast Committee, providing their web-services. A project that is dear to our heart is their work to help protect the endangered Hooded Plover, a dear little coastal bird, and only a few hundred of them left. 

There are two things that you don't want to see being made: laws and sausages. That adage has certainly proven true in the mucky, raucous process that has delivered us the carbon pollution reduction scheme, or 'carbon tax' if you prefer.

The one thing that was missing from the debate was the reason we need this thing, namely the potential for catastrophic climate change. The floods in Victoria, NSW, Tasmania and now Queensland show us that, no matter how resourceful we humans may be, we rely on the stability of our weather to be able to carry on normal lives. More frequent extreme weather events will have a massive impact on our abilities to lead happy lives. 

Politics in its brawling, mud-fight way has at last yielded some action on climate change at a governmental level. Now it's up to the rest of us to get behind it and quietly, calmly and persistently keep making the case for why it is so needed. How the scientists and politicians stand the abuse, I don't know, but at least we can say thank you.