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KUSA (NBC Colorado) Video: Making products out of thin air

Kimberly Miller — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 18:58:04 +0000

KUSA – You may have heard the fairy tale of the woman turning straw into gold. It may not be gold, but a Boulder company claims to be doing something quite similar.

9NEWS has been following the Clean Tech Open since March of this year. The competition takes the best ideas from hundreds of contestants and helps them develop the ideas into products people can use by offering business training and finding funding for the projects.

“It really drives innovativeness. It helps commercialize and accelerate these phenomenal ideas in green technology and clean technology,” Co-Chairman of the Rocky Mountain Competition Dick Franklin said.

[Read entire article here]

CBS San Francisco @ West Coast Green

Kimberly Miller — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:32:58 +0000

Jeffrey Schaub reports from the tradeshow floor at West Coast Green with a full preview and tour. Video embed coming. Click on the image below to watch the video on the KPIX website.

eChalk featured in District Administration Magazine

Kimberly Miller — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:00:08 +0000

How do you keep 38,500 students and over 2,500 classroom teachers in more than 60 schools connected? One way would be newsletters. Yet, imagine the resources a district saves when the tool for communication is a robust and dynamic website. Corpus Christi Independent School District uses the powerful yet simple eChalk website to effectively connect parents, teachers, students and administrators. Take a look at how they’ve organized an entire district while conserving time and resources in this piece by District Administration Magazine.

Read Full Article here

Client Feature: Re:Vision Dallas on ArchDaily

Kimberly Miller — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:58:46 +0000

ArchDaily featured Re:Vision Dallas honorable mention “Commonwealth” in their latest article. Below is an excerpt – click to read the full article.

We have been featuring several Re:Vision Dallas entries because the competition has attracted forward thinking designers with solutions we’d like to share. The newest submission from PIKL Studio won an honorable mention for their proposal Commonwealth. PIKL Studio’s proposal

envisions the urban block as gradually moving toward becoming a natural community built on effective relationships and connections.

Read full article from ArchDaily

Orange County Update: Green Cities Florida

Kimberly Miller — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:22:29 +0000

The crews from Orange TV and Vision TV cover the happenings at Green Cities Florida. They report on flipping the switch on the solar array, Orange County taking the lead on environmentalism, and what Senator Constantine calls ‘a green revolution”. Among the convention center’s many green advances are recycling, low flow faucets and reclaimed water for irrigation. The new solar array provides energy equivalent to powering 100 houses. Check out the video for more information on all of the green happenings at the Orange County Convention Center.

For more information on the previous and future events visit www.greencities.com and www.greencitiesmedia.com

Pandora (Music Genome Project): Video Tree Sound Studios Parts 1-3

Kimberly Miller — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:21:25 +0000

In a world where resources are scarce, it’s rare to find a studio as environmentally conscious as Tree. See how this Atlanta hothouse is revolutionizing the relationship a studio can have with our planet. FInd out why artists like Andre 3000 from Outkast choose to make ‘ecophonic’ recordings there.

Part of the Pandora Video Series “Studio Stories.”

Directed by Roger Gardner. Higher-resolution versions of this and other videos available at http://pandora.com/show.

Check out Tree Sound at www.treeleafmusic.com.

Chris Cheatham interviews Eric Corey Freed

Kimberly Miller — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 23:21:43 +0000

Freed: Design Competition Winner Will Build Actual City Block

Chris Cheatham (Green Building Law Update) interviewed Eric Corey Freed last week and just posted the first in a 2-part series interview:

My friends over at Sensible City recently offered me the opportunity to interview Eric Corey Freed. It’s not everyday I get to interview someone who was just interviewed by the New York Times so I jumped at the chance. Even better, Eric is an “organic architect” and studied under a former student of Frank Lloyd Wright. I am getting married in October at Wright’s Arizona home, Taliesin West, so I couldn’t pass up this opportunity.

Eric is involved in a tremendous design competition called Urban Re:Vision, and he describes how Dallas was chosen as the site for the competition: “The mayor, Tom Leppert, was fantastic. He’s got 30 years in the building industry and he understood Urban Re:Vision right off the bat. So the City of Dallas gave us this block next door to city hall and said ‘Here, this would be perfect,’ and everything kind of came together. Now we have what we always wanted, a real city block, with real stakeholders behind it and the winning entry will really get built.”

In Part I of the interview, Eric and I discuss “organic architecture” and the Urban Re:Vision competition in some detail. Eric also provdies insight into liability concerns surrounding the competition. On Wednesday, we will discuss broader legal issues surrounding the green building indusry and a controversy that arose over Eric’s New York Times interview.

Part 1: [ Read the interview here ]

Today is “Good People” day

Kimberly Miller — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 19:58:43 +0000

As per Gary Vaynerchuk, today is “good people day”.

I’ll call out:

Mayari Waymouth and my 3 beloved children – Stella, Lukas and Choyen
Van Jones – one seriously good guy
Greg McHale – Good2Gether!