Green Business in Orange County

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 becomes [...]

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RIP Robert Rauschenberg

Robert Rauschenberg, American Artist, Dies at 82 source: NY Times
This man is an important influence on my creative work. Such an amazing innovator. (Thanks for the link to that one @10ch)

Fearless Experimentation
It’s no secret that experimentation (and the failure that goes along with it) is at the core of innovation. While we’ve all probably absorbed [...]

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Graffiti IS Art

Mark Schultz over at the N&O’s Orange Chat blog writes:

Graffiti or Art?
So we sent staff photog Leslie Barbour to shoot a town worker painting over some gang symbols at the Chapel Hill Community Center this morning.
I was talking to Leslie about the story later this afternoon, and she said we shouldn’t call the gang symbols [...]

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Edwards and Permanent Military bases in Iraq

A few months ago I was invited by Sen. John Edwards to attend a dinner with several local bloggers. It was a exciting and wonderful evening of good food and excellent conversation. I was nervous and wondered how I ended up there. I suppose its because of my blog post Mr. Edwards, help teach others [...]

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US out of Iraq now!

In case I haven’t said it recently, the US military needs to leave Iraq now. Every single last solider, public or private, needs to leave Iraq. No permanent military bases. No covert military presence. No hired guns. Let Iraqis rebuild their country in peace with restitution paid by their former occupiers.

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Keeping Carrboro Green

The News&Observer has a story today about the Carrboro Greenspace effort.
A group is trying to raise the down payment on $1.4 million it needs to save a green hillside near downtown from buildings, cars and pollution.
The Carrboro Greenspace Collective is trying to preserve about 10.5 acres off of Old Pittsboro Road, where the “Old [...]

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