Yesterday, I was fortunate to catch some of Jim Gilmore's discussion of REAL American values on WCPN 90.3 Ideastream.  His new book is available to check out from your local library:

Authenticity : what consumers really want

by James H Gilmore;  B Joseph Pine

Get in line after me for the library copy, or buy it from a REAL bookseller--Visible Voice, Bookstore on West 25th St...etc.

Speaking of what consumers really, really want in REAL--what makes a blog authentic?--recognition by the mainstream media???
Thanks to the PD for linking to RealNEO on their blogroll.

  Communities--real communities and business models--need to abandon traditional hierarchical structure and adopt structures that respect good ideas regardless of origin.  We will never completely achieve a gender neutral society, so we should learn to adopt a more parent structured economy.  I am reading Authenticity and I recently watched a recent city club forum on understanding how to operate in the global economy.  The presenter Jane Hyun ended the presentation with a question from the audience on acculturization vs. assimilation and discussed ways Asia can overcome it's traditional hierarchical society to encourage innovation.

Friday, February 29, 2008 featuring Jane Hyun, President, Hyun & Associates
Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling: Career Strategies for Asians

I have every confidence that Asia will achieve REAL COMMUNITIES--healthy, safe, nuturing communities--before the U.S.  Today, I passed one of my neighbors, a woman, my age, from China, shovelling the snow on her street!

I greeted her and walked down the street and joked to the middle-aged man who maintains an apartment building..."See, she is putting you to shame."  And his response?  "Sure, they do it for pennies in China."  He just doesn't get it.

Prominent examples range from the mountain bike to the open-source operating system Linux, from Wikipedia to the Jubilee 2000 campaign, which helped persuade Western nations to cancel more than $30 billion in third-world debt. In his upcoming book, We-Think, Leadbeater explores how this emerging culture of mass creativity and participation could reshape companies and governments. A business reporter by training, he was previously an editor for the Financial Times, and later, The Independent, where, with Helen Fielding, he developed the "Bridget Jones' Diary" column. Currently, he is researching for Atlas of Ideas, a program that is mapping changes in the global geography of science and innovation.

"Charles Leadbeater is an extraordinarily interesting thinker. His book asks critical questions. I know it will be widely read and debated."

Bill, you don't want to get me started on mountain bikes.   In my book, bikes are for transportation, not cheap thrills.

  Cleveland has to recycle the same idea.
Over and over and over....

What do you think of this site Norm? 
http://www.sustainlane.com/us-city-rankings/cleveland.jsp