GreenAscension.com stands on the shoulders of giants; we built this site entirely using open-source software:

• The content and layout are created with the Drupal open-source content management system, with many additional community-contributed modules and add-ons.
• The site is hosted on Linux servers running Apache server software.
• Our spam control systems use BadBehavior, Akismet and SpamAssassin
• We use the RSS open standard, both to aggregate and to syndicate news that is relevant to our readers.
• We use AWStats to analyze our website’s visitor and traffic patterns.

We are making our website construction open and public so that anyone can duplicate our community-building efforts.  If you want to build a similar system, feel free to contact us, and we would be happy to give you any advice and guidance we can offer.