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Posts tagged with "Activism"
730 days of Community Beer Works
May. 24 | Er, 731 days. Thanks, leap year. Exactly two years ago, I went to my friend Ethan’s house. My homebrewing and beer blogging compatriot had an idea that I desperately wanted in on: he wanted to start a brewery. Six of us sat in his basement (with...
Wind Turbines – What Should Be a New Auto Industry
May. 22 | from http://www.manitowoccranes.com/site/GB/NREN20091030a.aspx - also a lesson in getting the camera lined up correctly, as that is not a leaning tower of Pisa knockoff. It actually stands 113 meters tall (370 feet) and if it is not vertical it won't...
On Beerology
May. 17 | Last year, if you wandered into the far corner of Beerology, past the German documentary and the homebrew club, you would have found a table with two men sitting behind it. “We don’t have any beer,” they would have said apologetically....
Candidate College, June 16
May. 16 | Candidate College Demonstrates How Anyone Can Run for Elected Office Date: Saturday, June 16th 2012 When: 8:30-5:00 PM Where: YWCA of WNY 1005 Grant Street (bet. Amherst and Military) Cost – $15 Partnership for Public Good, YWCA of WNY, New...
Combatting Poverty through Early Childhood Education on this week’s Public Good
May. 15 | PPG has a radio show, the Public Good, each Tuesday from 1:00 to 1:30 pm on WUFO AM 1080. Each week we feature a PPG Partner or other person working toward the public good and discuss some of the region’s hottest issues. Tuesday, May 15, at 1pm,...
Raise the Minimum Wage
May. 11 | PPG co-director Sam Magavern testified at a public hearing on increasing New York State’s minimum wage. There is currently a bill in the New York State legislature introduced by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Assemblyman Keith Wright, D-Harlem,...
Waffles. Science. Beer!
May. 10 | What are you doing tomorrow night? Do you like food? We do. That’s why we’ll be going to Sweet_ness 7 tomorrow: it will be a fun night of food, with waffles, bakery items and Roaming Buffalo’s guest chef Amelia Nussbaumer. We won’t have any beer,...
Erie County’s New Process for Funding Arts and Culture, May 21
May. 3 | Erie County’s New Process for Funding Arts and Culture A Partnership for the Public Good Forum Monday, May 21 12:00-1:30pm 237 Main Street, Suite 1200 Maria Whyte, Erie County Commissioner of Environment and Planning Laurie Dean Torrell, Greater Buffalo...
Greening Canal Side, May 15
May. 3 | Greening Canal Side: A Public Brainstorming Session Tuesday, May 15 5:30pm to 7:00pm At Canal Side Meet at the Naval and Military Park In front of the Museum Canal Side is one of the largest and most exciting developments occurring in Buffalo. What...
Events! Oh my!
May. 3 | This past Tuesday, the kitchen at Blue Monk closed down so that it could host the Blue Monk Meet the Brewers Beer Dinner with CBW. People seemed to have a good time at the five course dinner, which perhaps is best told pictorially through Storify. Couldn’t...
The Fracking Window
May. 3 | One of the new RE Power 2.05 MW MM92 wind turbines installed by Everpower at their Howard Wind Farm in Steuben County, NY (so far 25 installed, two more to go). It sure beats looking at a pontification advertisement by noted horse admirer and local...
Big News for Buffalo Recycling
Apr. 26 | Help form the Buffalo Recycling Alliance! The City of Buffalo has dramatically increased its residential recycling rates with its new totes. PPG and its allies want to build on that success with a Buffalo Recycling Alliance that will work to increase...
It remains real
Apr. 26 | Last Friday, you all drank 150 gallons of our beer. Let’s think about that. That is a lot of beer. By 8:30, Mister Goodbar was out of Frank. Dave left in the middle of the event to deliver more kegs to both bars. They’ve been restocked since...
Squibs 6
Apr. 23 | Welcome to Squibs: Your sporadic (read: infrequent), Morning Grumpy-styled window into the head of C.B.W. President Ethan Cox. Now available in HiDef! 1. Wow! We did it- we’re open! It’s really very difficult to come up with words to describe...
Carbon (Dioxide Pollution) Pricing – A Fast Road to Nowhere
Apr. 22 | One of the winners in this year's European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) photo-contest. The EWEA 2012 annual conference was just held in Copenhagen, Denmark, and was a big success by most accounts. This picture is from http://www.ewea.org/index.php?id=917...
Carbon (Dioxide Pollution) Pricing – A Fast Road to Nowhere
Apr. 22 | One of the winners in this year's European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) photo-contest. The EWEA 2012 annual conference was just held in Copenhagen, Denmark, and was a big success by most accounts. This picture is from http://www.ewea.org/index.php?id=917...
See you on the flip side
Apr. 19 | This will be the last Thirsty Thursday post before you’ve had our beer. Some ne'er do well has been adding Frank graffiti all over the brewery! Let’s all take a moment to think about that. Oh, sure, you might not be able to come to Cole’s...
Help Form the Buffalo Recycling Alliance
Apr. 17 | The City of Buffalo has dramatically increased its residential recycling rates with its new totes. PPG and its allies want to build on that success with a Buffalo Recycling Alliance that will work to increase recycling and reduce waste at businesses,...
French Lesson
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We will be brewing beer for sale this Saturday
Apr. 5 | And how absolutely cool is that? This morning, Greg sipped a porcelain cup filled with Earl Grey tea. Nibbling on a small cucumber sandwich, he asked, “Is everything finished?” It really ties the brewery together “Yes,” the inspector...
Heart of the City Neighborhoods, Inc.’s breakfast series, “No Place Like Home” May 9
Apr. 5 | PPG Partner, Heart of the City Neighborhoods, Inc., presents “No Place Like Home” a community breakfast Series. The series explores different housing issues relevant to our City of Buffalo. The third installation of this series on May 9th...
…pation
Mar. 29 | Sorry for making you wait so long for that. Remember this bad boy? Speaking of waiting: as you may have seen on various social media sites on Monday, we had our state Department of Agriculture inspection. And… We passed! “You’re all...
Which describes how we’re feeling
Mar. 22 | Every week I wonder to myself what I’m going to write on Thursday. “Surely there won’t be that much to say,” I think, “and I’ll have to write on a non-CBW beer topic.” Those are fun too, of course! Ethan and I...