Brief decription:Open block party for family's & friends to come together  an encourage our city to overcome our lackness in society.We'll have many interested speakers & rolemodels an also united states recruters their also to share their experience an also many opputunity's for our upcoming children.Hopefully have the mayor frank jackson their himself an also other important people as well.

SUNDAY, SUNDAY, SUNDAY!!!  Will bikes ever replace cars as machine symbols of our identity? Find out Sunday--show your stuff by coming downtown with your machine!  The best entries will be photographed and featured here!

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This was your NEO

This is your NEO on FFOEF

Deconstruction is a wonderful opportunity to create revenue from what would typically be waste material that would be directed to landfill otherwise. The typical cost of demolition of a typical home in an underprivileged community often exceeds $8000. In addition, demolition needs to be accompanied with the use of excessive water - which is another form of waste - to ensure toxins like lead, asbestos, or mercury do not spew into the surrounding air, soil and water. When deconstructing, this toxicity spread and water use is circumvented.

19 Feb 2009: Opinion

Materials and supplies collected from local architects and interior designers will be distributed to arts educators, art students, and artists at the ZeroLandfill Akron project site in downtown Akron.

Join in this resource harvest every Saturday in February from Noon to 4pm.

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Tim Russo noted this first on his blog . Jennifer Brunner has a senate website up and running at www.jenniferbrunner.com. And, the contenders?? Lee Fisher, PLJ? Nada.

Ed was as furious as I can ever remember seeing him, as he shouted "the process is broken".

Ed was so right.

In the Fall of 2008, I proposed to Cuyahoga County Commissioner Peter Lawson Jones that the local foods sector offers the people of Northeast Ohio $ billions in economic development opportunities that may be distributed to a huge percentage of our 1,000,000s of residents in very socially equitably ways. I also proposed similar opportunities are available in open source information and social computing. And I pointed out regional organizational, strategic, social and operational barriers to success and proposed specific solutions to maximize workforce and infrastructure development, massive scaling, and social equity.

By REBECCA SMITH

A substantial increase in the amount of electricity produced from renewable energy would require building a transmission system that would carry a price tag of up to $100 billion, according to a new study. The new system would be needed because the existing eastern grid couldn't handle the volume of power coming from the wind-producing states.

Could we do this here in Cleveland???

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Innovative Solar Power Feed-In Tariff Program Approved in Gainesville, Fla.
by Matthew McDermott, New York, NY on 02. 6.09

A couple of months back I wrote about how Gainesville, Florida was looking into enacting a solar power feed-in tariff modeled on the type of renewable energy promotion schemes used widely in Europe, but sparingly in the United States. Good news, Gainesville Regional Utilities has announced that the Gainesville City Commission has unanimously approved the plan:

The Center for Community Solutions' Human Services Institute is Ohio's longest-running and largest one-day professional development opportunity for staff and volunteers of health, social service, education, and other human service organizations.

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A Piece of Cleveland provides housing deconstruction as an alternative to housing demolition. This home grown environmentally conscious business has launched a blog where deconstruction, recycling, upcycling and rebirth of Cleveland's housing materials are documented.

Despite corruption and cronyism galore, Ohio does have it's bright and shiny moments of good and brilliant. Here's a way to make history come alive for your kids (from ODOT!) http://www.dot.state.oh.us/districts/D06/Maps/Pages/OhioUndergroundRailroadMapsPage.aspx

We have come a long way, but we still have a long way to go.

Shout out to Slavic Village Sandy, who is the voice of NEO. Thanks for the heads up!

Chart from: http://www.drought.gov/portal/server.pt/gateway/PTARGS_0_2_693_208_0_43/http%3B/drought.unl.edu/dm/monitor.html 

California's governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, warned on Thursday that his state "is headed toward one of the worst water crises in its history".

As many of you know, FOBC members have advocated for the Lower Big Creek Valley Greenway Redevelopment & Restoration Plan, the study to develop a master plan and an economic revitalization strategy for the Lower Big Creek area between Brookside Park and Jennings Rd. The LBC plan combines information contained in past planning studies by NOACA and others. It is funded with support from the Ohio & Erie Canal Association, Cleveland Metroparks, Ward 15 Councilman Brian Cummins and Ward 16 Councilman Kevin Kelley, and the City of Cleveland.

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This is your invitation to join Miami alumni and friends from around the globe for a Charter Day Celebration 200 years in the making. Space is limited at each event and the deadline to RSVP is February 7, 2009.

More information and online registration are available at www.MiamiAlum.org/Chapters or you can Joanne Harper at 1-866-MU-ALUMS.

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Canadian Tar Sands Look Like Tolkein’s Mordor Says UN Water Advisor

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 Pecha Kucha Night Cleveland #2

Friday, February 6th, 2009 Start 8:20pm (doors open at 7)
House of Blues 308 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio

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East Cleveland Theater presents "Jitney" by August Wilson.
Sunday, February 15, 2009.
Sponsored by Windermere Renaissance.

At a ramshackle taxi depot, the middle-aged men who drive unlicensed gypsy cabs, or "jitneys," strive to find honor and accomplishment amidst a landscape of diminishing opportunity. When the station owner's estranged son returns from 20 years in prison, their reunion unleashes two decades of brutal, raw emotion.