“Subliminal Strings” at May Company Stage  introduced by James Levin, Ingenuity Fest director -  Really live video by Kasumi, wailing violin by  Daniel Bernard Roumain , with ripping hip hop mixes by DJ Spooky.   

When the seemingly quiet and understated, but superbly in control, band leader gave the double whistle, the Shaw High School Marching Band went into gear like a locomotive pulling 100 100ton cars.  Made my eyes get wetter...

Building Bridges Mural Program’s brochure suggests that the program “empowers communities one brushstroke at a time”.  

WIND TURBINES SOLD IN BIG BOX STORES

Canadian Tire stores are located in big box mall slots all across Canada.   If you aren’t familiar with Canadian Tire    http://www.canadiantire.ca/index.jsp , they are a hybrid of  tire/battery sales/service, auto parts, hardware and paint, home wares, lawn care, bbq, and sporting goods.   Canadian Tire’s gimmick is their issue of  “Canadian Tire Money” as a premium on every sale to be used against future purchases.  Your kids usually end up with it. 

Hello friends and colleagues in the Heights and beyond,

RIDE THE WIND™

WITH THE RTA

A PROPOSAL TO SUPPLEMENT THE CLEVELAND RAPID TRANSIT AUTHORITY’S ELECTRICAL POWER, AND CREATE A DYNAMIC “SUSTAINABLE” IMAGE , BY INSTALLING MODERN MULTI-MEGAWATT WIND TURBINES ALONG THE RAIL RIGHT OF WAY(ROW). 

Theres' a stark difference in reporting attitude between REALNEO and ECO City site...

Take a look at the review of the ODOT bridge meeting posted by Marc Lefkowitz on we-wannabe-a GreenCity http://www.gcbl.org/  .   This is Polly Anna reportage in my book – you know, the type of reporting where when there’s a controversy, don’t address it.  Talk nice.  Make nice.  Don’t offend (the funders). 

It is a sad day (and week) when our country defines its success and global prowess by who we are able to kill (with a bit of "collateral" damage).   When one considers the paranoid, self serving, and repugnant subjects which have taken up the Congressional and National agenda this week while the citizenry barely raised an eyebrow,  then George Orwell wasn't writing fiction after all.

PUBLIC TRUST WINDS:

WILL OHIO SEEK AND OBTAIN PUBLIC SUPPORT FIRST, OR FACE A REAR GUARD ACTION   ALLA NANTUCKET SOUND?

                    When you go to Cape Cod this summer this is the sign you’ll see stuck in the grass on many front lawns. 

Take a look at innerbelt discussion on "WE WANNABE a green city on a blue lake" here:

http://www.gcbl.org/planning/innerbelt/urban-design-land-development-and-the-innerbelt#comment-113 

http://www.gcbl.org/blog/david-beach/new-symbol-for-the-lakefront#comment-112

Take a look at the City/Lake site whose link is above;   Here's a problem with a non-operational wind turbine - it can be interpreted to mean that reliance on wind energy is bogus - granola crunching nonsense. 

When we have Marc, who is surely a wind advocate, asking questions about why it isn't working - "is it lack of wind power?", then certainly we will have wind adversaries mocking every day the stupid thing stands still. 

As a kid my Mom would always read to me and my brothers - So I was struck with the Mike-the-Hatter photos with all the similar hats stacked on shelves.  So serious in the store,  when I always think of hats as a sort of humorous topper - I have a lot of hats. 

http://www.realneo.us/events/christo-jeanne-claude-in-cleveland-may-2006

Buster’s wrong.

An equal number of panhandlers and ride participants appeared for bagels, OJ, and energy efficient light bulbs at the Mall B terminus of this morning's bike ride. I was the only rider besides Jim Sheehan from any of the collection points on the mid east side (including Univ. Circ., Shaker Sq, Cedar Fairmont).  Jim, who is the expert, took us down through the cultural gardens along the Doan Brook, then out along the lakefront (against the wind) past Burke Air Port and into Down Town. Only about 5 riders showed up at the Mall.   Jim worked with some younger walk-by participants showing them how to remove a bike tire from the rim, and extricate the tube for patching. The road surfaces are so crappy in Cleveland that you need to keep your wits about you to prevent a crack up.

Good exercise however – and though I rode back home, I found out how to get your bike down the elevator in Terminal Tower if you want to take the Rapid back uphill.