Ethan got into this a bit earlier this week, but when writing weekly updates on what’s going on with the brewery it can be easy to forget that “construction is coming along nicely; look, coolers!” is interesting but has no real information on definite dates. This is partly because we don’t know any definite dates, [...]
From http://news.hjnews.com/news/article_b87ec744-d1ea-11e0-abad-001cc4c03286.htmlMany decades ago, natural gas (methane, fossil fuel form, alias Ngas) was proposed as the fossil fuel “bridge” between coal and a nuclear future. But then that nuclear fu…
Welcome to Squibs 5, the 2012 Tra-la-la edition. I write when the spirit moves me–ok, well, to be perfectly honest, that is a necessary but not sufficient condition. I also need to have free time and can’t write these on my smartphone, so it’s also critical to have a real computer before me. It all [...]
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. This Tuesday, February 7, Jonathon Welch, our guest will be Erie County Legislator [...]
An Enercon E126 x 7.5 MW wind turbine, installed and operating in Austria (one of a pair of them). Image from http://www.flickr.com/photos/rockenbauer/6702504217/. Even though this turbine model is a few years old, it is still one of the most advance…
“Our partners are working on some of the key issues affecting our area like cutting pollution, reducing poverty, promoting good economic development. An adequate, comprehensive, affordable public transport system is absolutely key to all of those goals.” PPG joined partner organizations VOICE, Citizens for Regional Transit, Buffalo CarShare and Green Options Buffalo yesterday at a [...]
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. This Tuesday, January 31, Jonathon Welch, owner of Talking Leaves Books, discusses buying [...]
This week we’re going to talk about Kickstarter and construction. But! To mix it up a bit, it won’t be about us! Kickstarter I don’t know how it escaped our collective attention, but there’s a Kickstarter for a movie about the life of Michael Jackson. Some of you may be confused. Much like Joss Whedon [...]
Tomorrow, our friends at Buffalo First! have organized a rally calling for local and independent business be the anchor tenant for CanalSide and the Buffalo waterfont. The rally starts at 1pm at 95 Perry Street. Economic vitality in our region requires the participation and passion from its residents. (This is what Democracy looks like!) Localizing [...]
A PV system on the property of the US Energy lab at Brookhaven, on Long Island, NYfrom http://www.lipower.org/company/powering/solar-bp.htmlIntroductionAssemblyman Fred Thiele (Independent, AD2) who caucuses with the Democrats (used to be a Republican …
IntroductionIt now can be logically argued that we now have less freedom (= less rights) than even a decade ago – for example, via indefinite detention, “legal” assassination of Americans, (lack of) on-line privacy, the “death” of “habeus corpus” and w…
