Site Colophon & Environmental Statement

Our Infrastructure & Environmental Principle

"We oppose speculative, land-intensive energy development that disrupts local agricultural zoning, destroys prime topsoil, and fragments critical ecological corridors. Conversely, we support highly efficient, minimal-footprint digital infrastructure built on verified environmental stewardship."

This public repository is hosted on an unmanaged, low-footprint virtual private server provided by Hetzner Cloud (Ashburn, VA data center park).

• 100% Renewable Energy: Our hosting infrastructure operates under 100% renewable energy coverage via regional wind and hydro Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs).
• Extreme Energy Efficiency: The facility operates at a Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) of ~1.1 to 1.13, compared to the traditional data center industry average of 1.5–1.8.
• Zero Evaporative Water Cooling: Our host uses direct free-air cooling rather than consuming municipal water supplies via evaporative cooling towers.

Technical Stack

• Operating System: Workstation authoring and server runtime powered by Fedora Linux
• Application Framework: Built using Python and Flask, served via Gunicorn WSGI
• Spatial & GIS Database: PostgreSQL with PostGIS extensions for vector boundary analysis, parcel evaluation, and spatial querying
• Web Server & Security: Caddy Web Server providing reverse proxying, TLS/HTTPS encryption via Let's Encrypt, and zero-runtime-overhead static asset delivery
• Deployment & Versioning: Fully declarative infrastructure-as-code deployed via secure SSH/rsync pipelines directly from local developer workstations
• GIS Source Data: Fair use of a Richland subset of parcels from Kalamazoo County Michigan Parcel Viewer . In turn, the parcel viewer makes these acknowledgements:
  
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Privacy & Access Logging

In keeping with public-interest advocacy, this site does not utilize third-party trackers, persistent advertising cookies, or cross-site analytics scripts. Server access logs are recorded in structured JSON format solely for security verification, denial-of-service mitigation, and monitoring public intake traffic.