“Technology that only takes one architect to install…” Rick Renner

Our friend Rick Renner recently completed Portland, Maine’s first LEED Platinum project. It was the renovation of a two story brick building into a first floor office for his architecture firm and a second floor apartment for himself. Rick is a principal of Rick Renner [...]

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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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Some Holiday Cheer on 34th Street in Hamden - a one block neighborhood in Baltimore where the traffic backs up for the 30 plus row homes which go all out for the seasonal bonanza.

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The end of the line has come for Burt’s Bees. The once small Maine upstart found fortunes in its natural health care products. It is nice to see the little guys do very well, it not so nice to see a local company move out of state for cheaper labor, sell a majority share to [...]

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That’s right the world famous Wall Mart store and their associated crap totals almost 19,000 acres - about 4,000 acres bigger than Manhattan. Click Here To View The Graph.

This graph was published by Good, a media disseminator bringing you ideas, news and information thru print, web and video. They posted the graph this month in [...]

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This Monday was the 40th Annual Saco Valley Woodsmen’s Field Day at the Fryeburg Fair. The Blue Ribbon Classic as they call it runs for 8-days between September 30th to October 7th.

Of course the real fair-goers get there for breakfast just after the sun-up. But me, being the city-slicker from Portland got in during the [...]

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And they are pissed, and rightfully so! The introduction to their 2007 Voter Guide starts with the familiar words “Our elected leaders have let us down”, and they directly point to the mismanaged and borderline stupid Maine State Pier RFP process and saddening Portland School Budget issues.
View the League of Young Voters 2007 Voters Guide [...]

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Warning: Explicit Language & Anti-Bush Statements

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Blue Hill Fair held during the Labor Day weekend was a nice treat to the start our wedding madness preparation week. There is something special about a good old agriculture fair - the livestock, the food, the people, the weather, everything makes for an exciting day in the north country. One of the [...]

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Well it’s done. Sally and I are now husband and wife. We basically had a four-day wedding, starting on Thursday with a Maine Lobster dinner and ending on Sunday with a brunch at the Wescott Forge. Funny thing is – I don’t have any picture to post. We are waiting to get our images back [...]

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This seems like something you would find in the anarchist cookbook. When I was in high school my computer hacker and fanzine friends were always showing me ways to beat the system. Actually it was more like theft of service, but the tricks included reusing stamps by covering them with a glue so you could [...]

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No More Garbage, a blog and life-style experiment about living trash free in Toronto has been getting some press lately. Two Toronto based artists have been trying to rid themselves of the nightmare of packaging and consumer waste for the past couple of years. This on-again off-again experiment has created a pretty cool story and [...]

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A learning journey in London leads Sally, Tracy, Bill and I on a 30-minute tube ride from our hotel near Hyde Park to Islington. After exiting the tube, we walked around the corner to a back alley and were greeted by the familiar signage of a metals recycler. We found the address we were looking [...]

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Sara ran across this essay contest posted on a general store bulletin board a few weeks ago in Blue Hill, Maine. The prize, a store on Swans Island. To enter this mysterious contest visit www.winourstore.com. We have not decide whether we are going to enter the contest, but we have until December 2007 to submit [...]

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Yeah, well you would figure I would have already done that, but no, so here we go starting over. An yes i now have an automatic weekly backup.

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