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Chapel Hill vs Carrboro

By On September 13, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Chapel Hill and Carrboro are related but they have significant differences. I love them both like family. I feel like their little brother constantly annoyed with one or the other but will remain steadfastly in love with them both till the day I die.

Many of my fellow Chapel Hillians do not understand these differences. [...]

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Christiania of the Carolinas

By On June 7, 2010 · Leave a Comment

For a few decades now people have been calling Carrboro, NC the “Paris of the Piedmont“. I won’t go into its origins here. Some folks are pretty fed up with the phrase. We never like being pigeonholed it seems.

Here I offer a new phrase to replace the old. One a bit more [...]

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High-speed Internet must be a part of Carrboro’s infrastructure

By On January 15, 2009 · Leave a Comment

People who live, work and visit Carrboro love the free wireless Internet. But the Town of Carrboro’s wireless is a victim of its own success. I’ve heard from a lot of people who have problems with it and wish it worked in their homes. Fact is, the area the wireless signal covers is too small, [...]

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The Journey to Build a Coworking Space

By On October 22, 2008 · Leave a Comment

More specifically its a journey to build a sustainable coworking space. By sustainable I mean it should financially support itself and its operator (me) plus employees. I’m doing the best I can to document this unique journey. Mostly on the biz blog at carrborocoworking.com.

So far I’ve recorded five videos. Hope to do more. You [...]

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Carrboro Creative Coworking Opening Tomorrow

By On October 5, 2008 · 2 Comments

Carrboro Creative Coworking opens this Monday October 6, 2008. Our initial business hours are 9am to 6pm Monday to Friday.

I’ll be posting a lot over at CarrboroCoworking.com. Please check out the blog there for the latest. One day I’ll have time to write here again.

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Carrboro Coworking is moving along

By On August 21, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Yesterday I signed a lease for office space in downtown Carrboro! After almost two years of work its FINALLY starting to happen. But this is only the beginning. So much more to do before we open. So much to do to run the space.

Last night I shared with friends and supporters the news.

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Green Business in Orange County

By On August 1, 2008 · Leave a Comment

I’ve just added a few posts to this blog about Green Business. I’m espcially interested in seeing it grow in Orange County, North Carolina. (That includes Chapel Hill and Carrboro.) So you’ll see on the top right of this blog a link to all the posts in the Green Business category. I hope this [...]

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Is Orange County ready for Renewable Energy?

By On August 1, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Al Gore calls for “100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources within 10 years.” What are our local governments doing to take this challenge and make it a reality locally?

This was originally a comment on a thread at OrangePolitics.org.

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Create Green-Collar Jobs in Orange County

By On August 1, 2008 · Leave a Comment

A few weeks ago I had the privilege of seeing Van Jones speak. He co-founded the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights and is founder and president of Green For All. He spoke convincingly of a future of increased equality and how one of the roads to this future is green [...]

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Carrboro Coworking gets a new Website

By On July 31, 2008 · Leave a Comment

My business Carrboro Creative Coworking is about to pick up speed. Back in June the Board of Alderman at the Town of Carrboro approved a loan. Now we’re at the lease negotiation stage. Very soon I’ll be announcing a location. Its been a long journey. Almost two years ago I started this business in [...]

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