We’ve launched our new website design today.
If you catch any bugs or glitches, please let us know about them.
Also, Brent and I will be out of town for the next week working at Coachella with The Do LaB. We will not be able to respond to any emails until the 28th. Sorry for any inconvenience.
Green Gurus is on the prowl for some new tech-driven team members.
Our team is comprised of a wide-range of talents from sustainable energy systems designers, feature film miniature and mechanical engineers, sustainable architects, Second Life programmers, and a host of other skills. Our projects range from multi-thousand person events, to on-air consulting, to feature films, to eCommerce, to manufacturing, and much, much more.
We’re well connected and very active in the Los Angeles underground modern tribal scene (cliche yes, but it fits the part), utilizing a vast range of science, technologies and metaphysics.
Here are our current task priorities:
1. Our site: GreenGurus.net
We’ve got to nail down a site design fitting of our name and team’s skills. We’ll have a much better conversion rate in closing new clients if we get this locked down.
2. Our keyword domains
We’ve got around 500 domains, most of them green-themed: We’re looking into monetizing a bunch, selling some and building out others.
3. Green eCommerce platform
One of our other companies, Distinctivefabric.com has an extensive, proprietary code base that we’re looking to overhaul into a green eCommerce platform and then license and/or sell.
4. Solar powered web hosting
We’re working towards our own solar powered data center chain, but until we’ve raised the money to put that together, we’ll be running on a dedicated server through AISO.net, configuration with them happening right now, should be up and running within the next week.
If any of these projects appeal to you and you think you’d like to explore a potential partnership with us to help manifest any of these items, then please let us know. We’re only able to pay through profit-sharing, performance-based pay and/or sweat equity right now. Assuming we get our site up to snuff, we can really start creating some exciting and meaningful compensation opportunities.
We continue to receive steadily increasing inquiries, have got some great natural page ranking on Google, especially under “green consulting” search terms, our team member’s individual projects and companies continue to complement our own here, and much more.
You are adept in any of these programs/languages/CMS:
PHP, MySQL, Python, Perl, Ruby, RoR, Ajax, Java/JavaScript, XML/XHTML, Drupal/Joomla/etc., WordPress (including installs), Apache/Debian, Photoshop/The Gimp, Illustrator, Quark, InDesign, AutoCad, Maya, Flash, ActionScripting, API interfacing, version control systems, Unix, ProTools, Logic, Ableton Live, and any other language or science you’re competent with in producing results.
You have experience from school and/or on-the-job training, can provide live and close to or fully completed projects online, have a working/proficient understanding of iterative, agile and atomic coding techniques/philosophies, and are otherwise a bad-ass online.
Preferably: you work in open source, off a Mac or Linux box, but have some working understanding of PC to get around should the need arise; live within the US, ideally w/in CA > Los Angeles…if not, possibilities still exist. Telecommunicating okay.
Please submit any relative content, links, resumes, or other media format…just be creative, inventive, entrepreneurial, and socially/eco-conscious in your approach to contacting us.
Also, see our ad on Craigslist.
This past week has been a very productive and exciting week for us.
We’ve officially added three new team members (who I’ll announce shortly below), made the most comprehensive set of site updates since we first launched, met with a great, new potential client that’s got some amazing insight into some sorely neglected elements to the current, green wave, scheduled our solar powered, green web hosting server setup (along with a meet and greet of our data center providers), and a slew of other details.
Before I go any further, let me first announce our new team members.
First up is Dr. Ryan Wartena, serving as electrochemical engineer and energy systems designer. Here’s all his relative metadata:
B.S. in Chemical Engineering from UCSD with minors in philosophy and psychology; Ph.D. from Georgia Tech in Chemical Engineering with a minor in International Information Business Technology Management, Post-Docs at the Naval Research Laboratory (’01 – ‘03, Advanced Electrochemical Materials Section) and MIT (’04 – ‘07, Department of Material Science and Engineering) developing small battery technologies (3D architectures, bio-materials-based electrodes), energy systems, carbon nanotube structures and nanoparticle assembly techniques.
Co-founded and co-directed the Burn Clean Project that helped create the pathways to bring biodiesel generators and fuel to the Burning Man festival in ’06 and ’07 and successfully advocated for the use of biodiesel fuel in generator sets owned by commercial vendors. Co-organized the Burn Clean Project’s BIOBUS 2007 shuttle between Reno Airport and Black Rock City, NV. Assisted in the development of MIT’s solar house (Solar 7) entry into the 2007 Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon. Co-designed MIT’s 1.102 Spring 2007 course on building applied energy generators in the forms of wind turbines, a rowing machine, an exercise bike, a pedal station and a merry-go-round. Co-Developer of Growing Architecture (’97 to Present) Currently designing integrated PV applications as VP of E,R & D at Nano Sol Systems, Inc.
Next is Brent Heyning, our technical energy specialist and builder. All his bits and pieces include:
University of California, Los Angeles CA, Production Design, Art Direction, ’93 – ‘96;
BA Fine Arts: Engineering, Theatre - Technical Arts, University of Memphis, ’85 – ‘92
Technical Director - Toyshoppe Productions, Los Angeles, CA ’04 - Present; Power/stages at LightningInABottle.org, Sound/power at Black Rock City, OYA Energy installation (with Ryan Wartena, Elizabeth Marley, Evonne Heynig), technical robots and craft for film/tv, custom LED design for clients such as Disneyland and the CW Network, television appearances include Monster House (2005) & voice talent for shorts & commercials.
And last but far from least, Evonne Heyning: Green Fairy, Interactive Artist, Writer and Producer. Bringing new worlds together:
B.A., Religion/Chaplaincy, Business, Communication Arts, Eastern Nazarene College, Quincy, MA, September ’93 – May ‘98
Post-fire cleanup & sustainability planning for Madre Grande (’07), OYA/Green Man Pavilion, Many international bridge building & resourcing projects with Amoration/International Humanities Center (’04 – ‘07), Founded/organized the first AltWheels festival in New England (’03), Artist/Teacher at Apeiron Foundation (building a sustainable, all-natural ecocenter, 2001-2). Television appearances as an artist for Blind Date, Monster House & Black Rock City documentaries (’05). Frequent speaker on the use of virtual worlds for international gatherings, saving the cost of carbon by interactively working together.
So, our team is becoming even more well-rounded and with its collective, multi-disciplinary experience is eager to dive into its next project. Throughout the course of the last several weeks we’ve been engaging in some very exciting discussions pertaining to the services we currently offer and those we plan to offer.
In the meantime, site work continues with minor content changes, though we’ve just recently hired an experienced programmer to help start tackling various projects, as the company’s finances allow. Current recent updates include the addition of a new page for green, getting started steps that offers several levels of detailed suggestions, questionnaires and even an introduction to the art and science of biomimicry, along with some about and services updates.
Lastly, earlier this past week I met with another highly committed socially conscious entrepreneur to discuss our mutual companies and see how we can best serve each other’s needs. More on this as things develop…
Yes we know our blog posts’ permalinks aren’t working…
We know what the problem is and will get to it just as soon as we can. We’ve got higher-level matters demanding our attention at the moment, but should get to it in another day or two.
Thanks for bearing with us.
We recently received a postcard from someone by the name of Lisa.
Thanks for catching our typo and informing of us of it! The postcard you sent is gorgeous and we’ve hung it on one of our office walls, so no need to worry over the recycling issue. 
FYI - she sent it by snail mail because she was having some technical difficulties with her email.
Also, our website has remained in limbo these last few weeks as everyone is just so darned busy with one too many other projects. I’ve often found it ironic when a company is so freaking busy that it can’t find the time to tend to its own basic needs but, we’re working on that and many items are in store for both our site, our services and more as the year comes to a close.
More on this soon, thanks for your understanding and patience!
While things have been pretty quiet on our website recently, we’ve been quite busy behind the scenes with the filing of our LLC status, redefining our mission statement and much more. Read on below for more info on all the latest…
First of all, we’d like to welcome our newest team member, Elizabeth Marley, our first resident, sustainable architectural designer. She’s a graduate of the Los Angeles-based school, the Southern California Institute of Architecture.
Also, our mission statement has been coming along and we’ve posted it on our about page here. Feel free to let us know what you think of it, we’d appreciate the feedback, just as we would on anything else about our company.
Lastly, we’ve begun work in earnest on our non-profit side of operations over the last few weeks, and things are moving along nicely. Our website is registered, hosting has been activated, a blog and other info will be up in a few days, and much more.
Check it out here, soon:
www.greengurus.org
We’ve created a 10 Steps 2 Green list for people and businesses to refer to when evaluating where or how to begin, on their own path towards sustainability.
Some of the items listed are quite simple while others quickly reach a level of
complexity and cost not all of us can yet obtain. So really it’s just a nice spring-
board from which one can quickly and easily evaluate and than implement those
steps most fitting to them.
We’ll be expaning upon this in the future with more detail, product and service
provider recommendations, and some similar lists of recommendations or steps,
for other area’s not mentioned already.
And of course, highly customizable plans based on your needs are available via
our consulting services. Feel free to contact us for a quote anytime.
Our website is finally beginning to take some shape and direction.
In all honesty, there is quite a bit yet to do and realistically, have launched it a bit prematurely
but we’re just so eager to get ourselves out there, to do the work that’s needed…that we just
couldn’t restrain ourselves.
Speaking of ourselves, here’s a little bit about what we’re about and who we are.
Anyway, expect to see consistent changes over the coming week. Our apologies for any confusion
during this period, as we expect some content to migrate and certainly evolve throughout that
time. Our blog template, provided by WordPress, seems a bit buggy but we are working to set
that straight soon (for instance, our blogroll is currently MIA).
We look forward to the coming weeks of progressive change here and hope to get your feedback
regarding our growth, design choices, etc. We’re especially open to your suggestions as to what
will make our site more appealing and aren’t afraid of any constructive criticism. 
