For the past several months, Thia Konig has been treating us to a wonderful journal of her photography titled Pioneering the Electric Highway. It documents her adventures with Ben Woodard as they go where no electric vehicles have gone before. And in so doing, they became pioneers of the electric …
Speech text from Miraverse Power & Light Solar Double-Cropping Ribbon-cutting
North Carolina is a great place to grow. Our family moved here when the growing company I started in Silicon Valley back in 1989 was bought by a faster-growing company here in North Carolina, Red Hat. North Carolina is home to a great community of innovators, and today we are …
The conservative (and generous) economics of Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry has become one of my heroes. His writings and ideas are among the most penetrating I have encountered in any living author, and he has a wonderful and luminous presence. He was featured on the Diane Rehm show earlier this year, and that conversation was selected for re-broadcast …
Construction photos: weeks 19-32
My last construction blog post was week 18, and you might think that since we’re now up to week 32, we’ve come twice as far as when you last checked in. Sadly, no. All construction projects (I am told) suffer at least one inconceivably long and complicated delay, and that’s …
small is possible: reconstructing local music
I just read Lyle Estill’s manifesto small is possible, an account of how he and others in Pittsboro, North Carolina (population 2,500) discovered how to feed, fuel, heal, and govern itself as a community. First off, the writing is simply first-rate. Lyle writes with humor, but also with a very …
The rest is noise…
I read a fair number of books, though not nearly as many as Amy. And many times when I discuss these books with others, they say “can you send me your reading list?” Well, I’m going to start a new category on this blog, which is books and it will …
Construction photos: week 5 (grayblock below grade)
More than a dozen pallets of greyblock are now positioned on the site to be placed on the footings and create the basin into which the concrete slab will be poured. You can tell how far up the grayblock needs to go: the wood framing on the far side of …
Philly Through My Ear
The things I learn by talking with just a few people who know a lot! I just learned about Philly Through My Ear, a creative, collaborative effort to bring together great jazz musicians, honor them, pay them, record what is still <em>great</em> music, and then give them a lottery ticket …
Starting a carbon neutral conversation
Yesterday I was thrilled to discover that Manifold Recording was the #1 Google result for the search term “carbon neutral recording studio“. I know that such a goal (achieving carbon neutrality, not the Google ranking) is a challenging one, and thus it makes sense to test the assumptions, even this …