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We've had a couple of SNAFUs with the upgrade. That's to be expected. Thank you for hanging in there with us.
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Submitted by James Protzman on Mon, 04/02/2007 - 11:08pm.
I've been lucky enough to know Tim Toben for many, many years. He's a dedicated environmentalist, a community visionary, and very good friend. He's also going to be live-blogging with us this Friday. Hope you can come.
The best way to understand Tim is to follow a few links. For example, this interview in Treehugger does a great job describing his environmental work here in Orange County. Tim is the brains behind Greenbridge, a very cool green mixed-use development recently approved in downtown Chapel Hill.
You'll also be interested to know that he's pretty heavily involved in this campaign.
What else can I say? Tim started his own company way-back-when, established a bio-diesel operation on his land west of Carrboro, founded an organic farm with irrigation powered by solar and wind, moved hundreds of acres of forest into permanent conservation easements, and has a beautiful family.
If you want to get in some early questions, this is the place to do it. Any topic, of course, is fair game. Green building, conservation, the Chapel Hill Town Council, Bill McDonough, salt-water swimming pools, organic gardening, global warming, state energy policy, whatever suits you.
Please stop by on Friday morning to meet Tim. We'll start around 8 am.
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dang
why do yall do live blogs when I have work or class???
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We're just trying to keep you
from having all the fun.
:)
Maybe we'll get started a little sooner for the early birds. Would that help? Would 7:30 work?
I second that
would love to have a few that would show up in the evenings!
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Okie dokey
I'll shoot for another day/time for the next one if I can.
Wow, A! This is wonderful
I'll see what I can do to think of some good questions. My brain is a bit frazzled right now.
I will be here for the live-blog, though. I wouldn't miss it.
Robin Hayes lied. Nobody died, but thousands of folks lost their jobs.
Thanks A,
I probably won't be able to be there Friday. But I will be posting some questions. This will be a great topic and timely! Congrats on bringing this to the Blue!
No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
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I know
someone who is fairly high in the EPA. I made sure that he saw the article in the indy about that mix used building. Its probably the best architectural idea I have ever seen. (if only i could spell)
My question is, what needs to be done to get projects like this started across the country, and the state? Will it require much of a change in technology to get these buildings going? What does the upfront cost look like compared to other types of buildings, and what are the expected savings?
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I've met and talked with Tim
and he is very personable and engaging. My question is: How can we get, for example, Progress Energy (or any other electricity supplier) to subsidize and support installing residential solar panels rather than building more CO2 emitting coal -fired plants? And, does he have suggestions for economical solar panel sourcing and installation?
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Too cool
I've been really trying to green my lifestyle more in the last year or two than ever before. And I've been doing a lot of reading about green living and found this guy and his various projects to be fascinating. Can't wait to see what turns up on this one.