Independent. Austin based.
Top ranked by Google, treehuggers, dirtworshippers, and just plain folks since 1994.
Free services
- This site (SustainableSources.com) including free postings to our popular Sustainable Building Calendar
- Strawlocator.com, a free place to post ads for selling and buying straw bales and straw construction tools (donations appreciated but not required)
- Willing Workers in Appropriate Technology networking list,
- The Straw Bale Building Registry
- and more.
Paid services
- Web site design & development:
A good web site is your worker 24/7, taking messages, explaining your business, providing references, portfolios, contact information, selling your service or product.
We make a web site that works for you. - Web hosting:
Web hosting from $15/month. - WordPress Monitoring, Updates, & Backups.
WordPress website monitoring, updates, & database and file backups for sites hosted elsewhere, starting at just $7/month! (Included free if hosted with SustainableSources.) - WordPress Site Hardening.
WordPress has become very popular, therefore it has become a target for hackers. We help you become less of a target! - Hack Recovery.
Has your site been hacked? We know what to look for and can get your site cleaned and back up and running. - We have switched to a new Domain Name Registrar. The site is easier to navigate and the company’s politics are cleaner, too.(If you registered your domain yourself through us before 2012 you probably did so through the old domain name registrar. We encourage you to transfer to the New Registrar at your earliest convenience.)
- We run Apache2 servers with PHP5.5.x and PHP7.x. Available databases are MySQL5.5.x, MariaDB10.x and PostgreSQL9.x. Server software is updated daily (or more frequently as needed in the case of security fixes).
- Nightly/weekly/monthly/annual backups.
- 100% renewable energy powered.
We can design your site, give it a tune up, and help you keep your content fresh. From $65/hr, with discounts for enviros.
- Sorry, We are not currently taking new web development clients.
Thanks for all the hard work you put into the new website. It looks great and the transition went so smoothly. I’m already getting great feedback from customers!
–-Hunter Butler, President
Blue Escapes LLC
Easy site updates
- Maintain and update your site without special computer knowledge using WordPress.
- If you know how to use MS Word, you know most of what you need to keep your site up to date.
Donated services
Giving back to the green community and other worthy folks
Since 1994, we have donated web development and hosting services in full or in part to the following (and more):
- Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems (CMPBS)
- Austin Environmental Directory
- Houston Environmental Directory
- Rio Grande/Rio Bravo Basin Coalition
- PEC4U.org
- Africa Bound
- Austin Eco Network
- Strawbale Building Registry
- Austin Sustainable Building Coalition
- East West Cultural Institute
- Greening The Heartland Conference
- Renewable Energy Roundup
- Austin Community Design and Development Center
- Radiance community
- Senegal Neem Foundation
- Willing Workers in Appropriate Technology
- Design~Build~Live
- Straw Bale Association of Texas
- Austin Zen Center
- Green Prairie Foundation
- The Last Straw Journal
- Medicine Horse Studio
- The Alley Flat Initiative
- CoServ Watchdogs
- Lincoln Green Building Group
- The 2007 Natural Building Colloquium, Texas
I want to let you know how much I appreciate the postings on your site. In fact, I found an item that is critical to a project I’m working on in Del Rio. You announced and had a link to the new ASTM listing for Earthen Construction. I bought and downloaded it then and there!
If there’s ever a greenbuilding hall of fame, you should have a statue in there… well, at least a decent plaque!