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Local Business, Google & Chapel Hill

By On May 26, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Here’s video of the Google press conference in Chapel Hill that occurred May 25. Thanks to the folks at RTP for capturing this. AGAIN they provided more detailed coverage than the local media.

He’s the link to the Google Economic Impact info. This is the PDF of data for North Carolina.

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My Local Energy Journey 2

By On October 7, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Part Two

I had a lot of specific requirements for my choice of diesel vehicle. I’m sure most people will too.

Affordable
As I mentioned earlier we don’t have a bunch money right now. So I had to find a way to sell my truck and use the money for another vehicle. It was [...]

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My Local Energy Journey

By On October 5, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Intro

I want to change not just the quantity of energy I consume but the kind. Both where it comes from and how it effects our planet.

Most of the oil we consume in the United States is imported. These assets are controlled by multi-national corporations. Their primary concern is profit. They wage wars and [...]

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Refresh the Triangle at Carrboro Creative Coworking

By On October 8, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Thursday, Oct 23, 2008 from 6:30pm to 8pm Carrboro Creative Coworking will be hosting Refresh the Triangle. This is a great meetup that I’ve been to several times. (Not nearly as often as I’d like though.) Each time I’ve learned something valuable and met great people. We’ll have free pizza and drinks too.

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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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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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Local governments withhold public access TV funds

By On May 14, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Local governments withhold public access TV funds. Get the story from this Independent Weekly blog post by Fiona Morgan called Legislature to consider future of public TV channels.

Both Chapel Hill and Orange County received money for Chapel Hill channel 8, on which The People’s Channel broadcasts.

Yet neither government has passed [...]

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myncCamp – TV Station does a BarCamp

By On April 16, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Before BarCamp RDU gets here there is another event with a serious Bay Area guest. Its called myncCamp and its sponsored by NBC17. (Get more info on the myncCamp wiki.) They have a new portal website called mync.com. The station is soliciting input and is going about it [...]

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Changes in the Local Political Blogosphere

By On January 23, 2008 · 1 Comment

There has been a flurry of activity in the Orange County political blogosphere this month. Changes that interest me as much as who is wining the presidential primaries. (Go Obama!)

First, the big news is the disappearance of the Squeeze the Pulp forum. In its place appears to be a site that could have a [...]

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Social Carolina: Tech Events Calendar

By On November 18, 2007 · 1 Comment

Wayne Sutton is on top of local tech events in our area. So a couple of us asked him to create something to keep track of these events. He set up a blog at socialcarolina.org and I created a google calendar. Plus we have the Twitter user RDCH to follow and stay [...]

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