Welcome. This is the story of the motivation behind The Climate Source.
I have been researching and teaching about climate change, technology and society for many years. The idea for this website evolved from earlier, more cumbersome efforts to gather and share climate-related teaching and educational resources. Colleagues, students -- and sometimes even a curious neighbour -- would come to me with a request for more information on a specific climate-related topic or issue. I would then spend a few minutes scanning old syllabi, bookmarked hyperlinks, or keyword searching to follow up on these requests. This took time. Instead, why not gather all this information in one place? That was the catalyst for this online educational resource guide for teaching and learning about climate change and society.
The website took about six months to design and build. None of this would have been possible without guidance, encouragement and technical support from over at fitzsim.org. Fitzsim helped me to learn enough about GNU/Linux, GNU Emacs, HTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to get this project off the ground. The design is intentionally low tech and free of any JavaScript. This minimalistic approach draws less CPU processing power thereby reducing energy demand from the local grid. One day I hope to run the site on a solar powered server, as they do over at Low-Tech Magazine. A less ambitious task for another day is to measure the power demand for hosting this website on a server in my basement.
Visit the homepage if you want to learn more about the purpose and objectives of this website. If you have comments or resources to share you can email me at: mtegel at posteo dot net.
Postscript -- This was my first foray into text editing with Emacs.
The learning curve looked like this. Total trip!