The 100 year old museum is the largest museum in America devoted to the history of the American whaling industry and its greatest port, New Bedford.

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Steve Wood from Concrete Couch just sent me images of a recent public art project he completed with The Courthouse Center for the Arts in southern Rhode Island.

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In which Bitzy Mitchell introduces herself to the Port City World.

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Peter and I are staying for a few days at Meg and Dave’s lovely new home in Bartlett NH. They built the house from scratch over the last year or so, from 100% non-toxic materials (no plywood, glues, formaldehyde’s, etc)– many of our regular readers are familiar with the house already.
Curious enough to come to [...]

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Amnesty International was in Downtown Portland for the last two days, featuring a Guantanamo Bay Cell. The Cell is a protest of the human rights violations of the United States in Guantanamo. The US Administration, being the smart cookies they are, uses this Cuban base to operate outside of the law of the United States.

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Salt Institute For Documentary Studies held it semi-annual student exhibition at Space Gallery on May 26th. The exhibit featured radio, writing, and photography pieces of stories from Maine. It was pretty funny watching a crowd of people stare at an empty stage while the radio pieces were airing. Check out Salt here.

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Peter and I are on the event committee for the First Annual Portland Indie Biz Awards– a fundraiser for Portland Buy Local and the Portland Independent Business & Community Alliance (I am on the Board).

We’re asking that everyone and anyone nominate their favorite Portland Businesses for an award. The awards will be presented on May [...]

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The Associated Press and New York Times covered a great story about a federal judges attempt to shut down an on-line site which allows anybody to post documents; mainly un-told stories, leaks, and private information for all the world to see. WikiLeaks describes itself as a web-tool that is developing an uncensorable system for untraceable [...]

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“They are surrounded by materialism trying to figure out how to create a life more oriented toward intrinsic values.” - Tim Kasser, Professor of Psychology, Knox College, Galesburg, Ill.
The New York Times posted an article on Friday titled: For ‘EcoMoms,’ Saving Earth Begins at Home. The image shows a well to do suburban home, [...]

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I found this poster project, Advice To Sink In Slowly, on the Core77Inches as a free nextel ringtones wav use. web site. It is a project of University College Falmouth graduates and is designed to give new students some helpful advice as they arrive on campus. Every student is given a poster and asked to [...]

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The Library of Congress joined the Flickr network last week as part of a campaign to make LOC materials more accessible. Two groups of photos were added to the new LOC account, 1600 color images of the 1930s-40s and 1500 images of news in the 1910s.

As you know the LOC is the national library for [...]

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Well isn’t that nice. The grocery store I love to hate is trying to change before they are forced to. With the plastic bag debate heating up all over the world, Whole Foods is acting before they are required to by legislation banning or taxing plastic bags.
Whole Foods will still offer free paper bags and [...]

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This ten minute video features the co-creators of CheatNeutral.com, a spoof on the prevalent practice of Carbon Offsetting. If it doesn’t make sense to offset cheating on your spouse, why does it make sense to offset polluting?

I found this site via: Respond|Design, an interdisciplinary forum for RISD students and faculty interested in how design can [...]

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I got the news just before Christmas that John Maeda had been selected as RISD’s next president. It had been hard for me to picture Roger Mandle’s successor, and I wasn’t expecting to hear anything until March or April, so the news took me off guard. Maeda is an excellent choice– so different from Roger, [...]

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The Department of Energy and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, a lab funded by the DOE and managed by Battelle, recently completed a pilot project titled: The Pacific Northwest GridWise™ Demonstration Project. In brief, this project studied whether knowledge, provided by computers, could help consumers decrease energy usage. Holy cow man – it worked.
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A huge collection of Edward Hopper prints, oil paintings, and watercolors are on exhibit until January 21st at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. Sally, Lucy, Bill and I took the train in from Baltimore during the holiday madness, the show was packed of course, but well worth it.
The National Gallery [...]

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Last week I had the opportunity to meet with Peter Korn, Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship (CFC) in Rockport, Maine. It was an exciting trip for a number of reasons. First, I got to swing by Curtis Custom Meats to pick up our freshly butchered lambs from the farm. Second, [...]

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the earth receives more energy from the sun in just ONE HOUR than the world uses in a whole year.
If you want to use the sun to heat your hot water, warm your home, or power your building than Energyworks is probably the best place in the state of Maine to start your investigation.
I was [...]

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