Introducing: Marc Robinsone Nicholas Caballero

These days, it's a rare occasion to come across someone that shows any genuine passion for personal and cultural values. It's an even rarer occasion that this person happens to be a developer willing to work for a startup with no funding and no big-name supporters.

But then again, Marc Robinsone Nicholas Caballero isn't your typical developer–he's a humanist, an eminent pedagogue, and a courageous supporter of free and open source software. It would be a massive understatement to say that we're excited to have Marc on our team.

Marc joins ONE-EARTH.com at a critical juncture. After several months of literally searching all over the world for potential developers to fill this position, we're confident we found the right person. Under our guidance, Marc will help take the site into beta stage; a task that we believe only Marc is capable of carrying out because of his unique education, skill set, and undeterred passion.

Marc is proud to declare his home in the metropolis of Makati–the Philippine's business district. He was born and raised in Baliuag, a first-class municipality in the province of Bulacan, Philippines. After graduating Magna Cum Laude from Asia Pacific College in 2007, he had the opportunity to follow many of his colleagues and classmates overseas to Japan, Korea, Dubai, London, or the US to pursue a financially better career. But Marc had other plans. Instead of leaving the Philippines, he chose to stay and has since become a role model for his generation, inspiring many to believe that there is hope in a better future at "home."

When he's not balancing multiple jobs in Information Technology (IT) and Graphic Design, Marc hosts software workshops and seminars for the youth and elderly to help them adapt to the fast pace of IT (the Philippines is approximately five years behind the US).

We share Marc's passion and beliefs. We're very happy to welcome him to our team.

collaboratively written by,
Steven, Founder and CEO
Thomas, Technology Leader
Nicholas, Marketing Visualization Coordinator

First of Many Posts

It's about time we created a 'progress' blog for one-earth.com...

First of all, thanks to the sixteen people who wrote articles for one-earth.com. They turned out great and we're excited about seeing them on the site when it launches.

Thomas is working extremely hard at managing the developers and ensuring that we're on target to launch by October 13. Tomorrow, we're beginning a new phase of development with a new development team, which we hope will be able to wrap up the site development on time and on budget.

Structurally, the site is complete. Check it out here; looking at the way the site is organized, you can see why we refer to it as a "craigslist for environmentalists." We have a few major features to add and few minor design tweaks and we'll be finished. One of the major features we'll be adding is the ability for users to save actions, businesses, organizations, etc., just like delicious.com allows you to save your favorite web sites. It'll be a convenient way for everyone to save and share their favorite actions, businesses, and organizations.

Last month, Nick filmed and edited an intro video for the homepage, which will help visitors understand the purpose and function of the site (in case it isn't completely obvious already). Thanks to Lila and Hired Gun for making it possible. When the site gets closer to the launch, we'll post it.

collaboratively written by,

Steven, Founder and CEO

Thomas, Technology Leader

Nicholas, Marketing Visualization Coordinator