Author: Unknown
•Wednesday, May 13, 2009
So this isn't exactly CHAC related, but it is Civic House related since Diana Funk (one of this year's PennCORP coordinators) is working for Google over the summer.

Instead of using lawn mowers, Google's using goats to trim their grass. That's right, 200 goats feast on Google's grass for a week.

Since they're trying to cut down on their carbon emissions, I guess it's better than using cows, which apparently fart so much they contribute to global warming (that's so awesome).


First link: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/mowing-with-goats.html
Second link: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/GlobalWarming/Story?id=2723201&page=1
Author: Unknown
•Friday, May 08, 2009
Hey Everyone!

Welcome to the CHAC Tracker! So hopefully this will be a place to post all our adventures, learnings, quibblings, and miscellaneous stories over the summer. Everyone's Google accounts should be added to the blog, so you all should have authorship to it through Google. Once you accept being an author, I'll promote you to administrator so you can customize the site and other stuff as you want, such as adding additional gadgets (like the chat box!) on the side.

For those going on trips, I tried to find a decent map gadget you could map your travels, but they all required the traveller to create an account. You guys could go here (http://www.blogabond.com) if you wanted to do such a thing or create your own travel blog (apparently that site's specifically to make travel blogs or something). And if you guys are keeping your own blogs and will have sparse internet access and are worried about not being able to post on two different blogs, let me know your blog address so I can repost your content here.

So, with that, I'll open the floor to you guys!