Posts belonging to Category 'Community'
November 21, 2009 | Posted by Paul Wolborsky
The good news is we’re all sitting on gold. The bad news is we can’t have it and sit on it at the same time. Over the last few decades, we paved over the family farm to create the highways-byways-skyways-safeways of modern agricultures.
Farming was poor family business, but its economies of scale made it good [...]
Categories: Community | 
Tags: agribusiness, Alice Waters, bad juju, Berkeley, Big, biological diversity, business, Chicago, Chile, Con-Agra, Family, farm, Farming, food business, Frontera, hitchhikers, honest truth, Hudson Valley, Marin County, Mendocino County, Napa Valley, nutritional value, Oregon, Organic, Rick Bayless, safeways, Silicon Valley, stock prices, stockholder, strange fruit, tomato seeds, Turkey, value, Washington | 
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October 30, 2009 | Posted by Paul Wolborsky
When you get down to the local level, Politics tend to be replaced by Pragmatics. There’s less buffoonery and silliness, less Special Interests to deal with. Big Government has too much concentration of power and wealth, when you make the decisions for millions of people and billions of dollars, no wonder corruption is such a wide problem. When you make the decisions for a few thousands, many who you see every day, with a very tight and very dog-eared budget, it keeps you (more) honest.
Categories: Community | Tags: City, Community, Don, economic stimulus, front, global governance, governance, Government, local networks, Malls, Mayor, point, power, power counties, pragmatics, Shopping, shopping center, small communities, special interests, stoplight, sustainable world | No Comments »
October 29, 2009 | Posted by Paul Wolborsky
When my friend was offered a part-time survival job, he jumped on it. He now works in inside-sales for 25 hours/week. He spends 20 hours/week commuting, 5 days a week. And he’s making minimum wage + commissions. And this is for o
Categories: Community, Friends & Business, Self | Tags: California, commute, commute home, company, day, friend, home, living, part time work, permanent part time, slave labor, staff, substantive work, survival job, temporary staff, time, time assistants, time worker, traffic congestion, week, work | No Comments »
October 28, 2009 | Posted by Paul Wolborsky
Now, the unthinkable happened, the Bay Bridge crumbled and it’s CATASTROPHIC. The Bay Bridge connects San Francisco with the East Bay (Oakland, Berkeley) and… Northern California and… any of a dozen or so states feeding into I-80 (I-80 ends at the SF end of the Bay Bridge).
Categories: Community | Tags: accident index, BART, Bay Area, bay area rapid transit, bay bridge accident, Berkeley, bridge, catastrophic consequences, cnn, East Bay, electric trains, line, mass, Mateo Bridge, new bridge, Northern California, Oakland, point, question, Rapid, Richmond, richmond san rafael bridge, route, San, San Francisco, san mateo bridge, time, transit, Urban, urban planners, year | No Comments »
October 19, 2009 | Posted by Paul Wolborsky
It’s late. You’re miles from home. You don’t have your car. From your office you pull out your keychain. On the keychain is a slender device. You press a button and the display lights up, ‘Wookie, eta 10 minutes’. You go down the elevator and wait by the curbside near the door, in a lit place beneath a prominent video camera. In 10 minutes, you see what looks like a glowing yellow Twinkie trundling towards you. On the sign in front it says ‘Wookie’. It glides to a stop 2 feet from you. You wave your keychain device in front of the door. It chimes and the door opens and it kneels towards you.
Categories: Community | Tags: autonomous vehicle, autonomous vehicles, Calif., darpa urban challenge, door, elderly parents, event, front, George AFB, grand challenges, grandchallenge, greenhouse gases, home, keychain, personal transit, robot vehicles, time, traffic, transit, Urban Challenge, vehicle, Wookie, zero emission vehicles | 1 Comment »
October 19, 2009 | Posted by Paul Wolborsky
Botsi is short for Robot Taxi. Robotic vehicles that will safely and comfortably transport you from point to point, from as close to your door to your destination’s door as possible.
Categories: Community | Tags: botsi, bus, human happiness, hydraulic platforms, mass, mass transit systems, night, old buses, personal transit, Public transport, riding the bus, robotic vehicles, Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, seat fabric, Silicon Valley, stop, Stops, Sustainable transport, system, time, transit, Transportation, Transportation planning, unsafe neighborhoods, voice announcements, vta | No Comments »
October 8, 2009 | Posted by Paul Wolborsky
Scientific Certification Systems visionary leader, Dr. Stanley Rhodes, has a system. It’s a great system for measuring the environmental impact of a coal plant or a bucket of Fried Chicken. It’s their Life Cycle Impact Assessment that measures (excuse me eharmony.com) 19 dimensions of incompatibility.
Categories: Community | Tags: battering ram, bean counters, Climate change, coal plant, Crises, dr stanley, Dr. Stanley Rhodes, environment, everybody, feedstock, fight, Global, global warming, hybrid, Impact, impact assessment, industry, informal relationship, lcia, life cycle impact assessment, metrics, new dimensions, scientific certification systems, SCS, system, thoughtful articles, time, tooth and nail, warming, waste | No Comments »
September 7, 2009 | Posted by Paul Wolborsky
Cash for Clunkers is great for the environment – as long as you don’t resell the Clunkers!!!
Money wins, Environment loses, but not a complete loss.
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Categories: Community | Tags: driving | No Comments »
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