OK, so we know. It’s been a while. Not good. But, we’ve been hard at work, beavering away creating some groovy little sites. A lot of which are very close to launch.

So, one we have finished is up and running: Western Metropolitan Regional Council. It’s a bit hard to explain exactly what they do, but essentially they’re responsible for all the Waste Management in a number of suburbs in the west of Perth. Now, that conjurs up images of garbage men travelling around the city, and an odour that’s none too pleasant. That’s part of the deal, but there’s so much more cool stuff happening beyond that.

One example is that WMRC, in association with EarthCarers, run education programs that help people begin recycling programmes, minimise their waste and become all around good earth type people.

Perhaps the coolest thing of the lot is the ORT Alliance. This is basically a bloody huge pressure cooker, that just takes a lot of rubbish (scraps, paper, food etc) and cooks it until it’s a less than appetising “slurry”, which they then sell to market gardeners. Who then, of course, produce the food that is going to make tomorrows food scraps.

Anyway, we did the site. We like it (of course). Like all of our websites, it’s another RubyOnRails extravaganza, with an admin area that basically lets WMRC change anything on the site that they want to.