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Sustainable Infrastructure
NEW: Water, Water Everywhere and Not a Drop to Drink: Adding Water to the Sustainability Equation, Betsy Otto, American Rivers
NEW: Sustainable Infrastructure Solutions, Chris Lotspeich, The Second Hill Group
NEW: Living Buildings and the Competitive Advantage of High Performance, Brandon Smith, Cascadia Region Green Building Council
Sustainable Manufacturing
Green Chemistry: Turning the Ship, John C. Warner, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Center for Green Chemistry
Life Cycle Assessment: A Tool for Sustainable Manufacturing, Tom Swarr, United Technologies Corporation; Jim Fava, Five Winds International
The Quest for a Manufacturing Model that is Sustainable, Mike Bertolucci, Interface Research Corp.
Thinking Like an Ecosystem, Reid Lifset, Journal of Industrial Ecology
Sustainable Finance
Turning the Ship: Transforming the Everyday, Peter Liu, New Resource Bank
Sustainable Investing and Portfolio 21, an interview with Carsten Henningsen, Progressive Investment Management
Green Energy 3.0: This Time, It Is Different, Jackson W. Robinson, Winslow Management Company
Green Insurance Products, Stephen G. Bushnell, Fireman's Fund Insurance Company
Sustainable Purchasing
Providing Incentives to Coffee Suppliers to Produce High Quality, Sustainable Coffee, Ben Packard, Starbucks Coffee Company
Talking Until You're Green in the Face: Environmental Communications Comes to the Fore, Don Millar, The Element Agency
On the Power of Purchasing and the Potential of 1%, Terry Kellogg, 1% For The Planet
Promoting Green Products and Services: Cure for Asthma and Global Warming?, Arthur B. Weisman, Green Seal, Inc.
Power of Local Government Dollars, Michelle Wyman, International Council of Local Environmental Initiatives, USA (ICLEI-USA)
The Green Wave
Climate Change as a Driver of US Market Behavior, Truman Semans, Pew Center on Global Climate Change
Ford Motor Company and the Green Wave, Dan Esty, Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy
Has the Era of Green Business Finally Arrived?, Joel Makower, GreenBiz.com
Turning the Ship: Environmental Transformation of the U.S. Economy, Brian Kuehl, Harvard Loeb Fellow and The Clark Group, LLC
By Ben Packard, Director of Environmental Affairs, Starbucks Coffee
New Approach to Purchasing
After years of traveling to coffee-growing regions around the world, we have come to deeply appreciate the care that goes into producing high-quality coffee. These visits are always worthwhile, especially when we have been able to engage directly with farmers, observe their best practices, gain insight about their short- and long-term challenges and identify ways that Starbucks can contribute to the sustainability of their business and community. More important, they have helped to raise our awareness about the need for a more sustainable approach to coffee production – one that touches on every essential aspect of the supply chain – from farming to processing to exporting.
The Conservation Principles for Coffee Production, a set of multi-stakeholder criteria launched in 2001, became the original platform that Starbucks used to evolve and eventually develop a more holistic set of coffee-buying guidelines that is now known as Coffee and Farmer Equity (C.A.F.E.) Practices. These guidelines were designed to ensure the sustainable supply of high-quality coffee; achieve economic accountability; promote social responsibility within the coffee supply chain; and protect the environment.
C.A.F.E. Practices encompasses various sustainability measures that are defined by 28 criteria, extending to both the farming and processing of coffee. The criteria, which serve as the basis for a comprehensive scorecard, fall under four focus areas: product quality; economic accountability; social responsibility; and environmental leadership.
Thousands of participants – from our largest coffee suppliers to many small-holder farms and cooperatives – have applied and been approved as C.A.F.E. Practices suppliers since 2004. When suppliers apply to C.A.F.E. Practices, they must undergo a third-party evaluation to verify the degree to which their practices are aligned with the criteria.
In 2004, Starbucks opened a Farmer Support Center in Costa Rica, which has allowed us to work more closely with farmers and suppliers on their sustainability measures and coffee quality. Shortly thereafter, suppliers in that region began applying and were approved under C.A.F.E. Practices, and the number has kept growing ever since.
Economic Transparency
The coffee market has always been prone to ups and downs, mostly related to the balance between supply and demand. Back in 2001, coffee prices fell to a record low of $0.42 per pound ($0.91 per kilogram), and fluctuated near the bottom for several years. These particular market conditions created a climate of economic instability that had an impact on many farmers and their communities. Today's market conditions are greatly improved, evident by recent prices of coffee traded on the New York "C" market (the worldwide reference used by coffee traders). In fiscal 2006, world coffee prices averaged $1.04 per pound ($2.29 per kilogram).
We believe that with any product there is an inherent link between quality and price. Through our close working relationships with coffee farmers and suppliers, we have always emphasized the importance of quality as the best, most sustainable driver of higher prices
paid. We understand that coffee farming, like any business, must be profitable to be sustainable. Furthermore, we know that when coffee farmers do not earn enough to cover their production costs and/or provide a reasonable income; they may switch to other crops or perhaps stop growing coffee altogether. In fiscal 2006, Starbucks purchased 294 million pounds (133 million kilograms) of coffee and paid an average price of $1.42 per pound ($3.12 per kilogram).
Starbucks commitment to pay premium prices for premium quality coffee has not wavered over the years. It is an approach that not only serves the short- and long-term economic interests of coffee farmers and suppliers; it also serves Starbucks interests by creating an incentive for farmers to improve quality and increase production that in turn contributes to a more sustainable supply of high-quality coffee which we depend on to support Starbucks continued growth.
To help assure that the farmer receives an equitable share of the price paid by Starbucks, a requirement for economic transparency is included in our coffee contracts, including all of our contracts with suppliers participating in C.A.F.E. Practices. This provision stipulates that our suppliers must provide credible evidence of payments, usually in the form of receipts indicating payments made at all levels along the coffee supply chain, including prices paid to farmers. In fiscal 2006, 98 percent of our coffee contracts included an economic transparency clause requesting documentation of payments made to various participants in the supply chain. In 95 percent of these contracts, economic transparency was required to the producer level.
Requiring coffee suppliers to provide evidence of payments was almost inconceivable several years ago, especially given the diffused and complex nature of the coffee supply chain and the historical lack of record keeping. However, since Starbucks instituted this requirement, a notable change has started to take place in the specialty coffee industry, with more serious attention now being focused on assuring that farmers receive an equitable share of the purchase price. We believe this ultimately benefits coffee farmers and other key suppliers who add value along the supply chain.
While we are encouraged by the progress to date, institutionalizing this new requirement has come with certain challenges:
• Standardized Economic Tracking Mechanism for Entire Coffee Industry
Currently, the coffee industry does not have a standardized mechanism in place that allows all parties across the coffee supply chain to easily submit evidence of payment in a consistent, uniform manner. We receive different forms of documentation – from a simple receipt for the coffee cherries that the farmer delivered to the mill to full purchase agreements that include more levels along the coffee supply chain. These documents not only differ in quality, they reflect variations in currency, industry standards and laws, units of measure and are prepared in many different languages.
• Continued Emphasis on Relationships, Communication and Training
As our demand for coffee grows and our already complex supplier network expands, we understand the importance of staying in touch with and training our suppliers so they understand how to complete the application forms for C.A.F.E. Practices, manage the required verification process, and adapt their practices to improve their scores. We must also seek efficiencies on our end that enable us to respond more quickly to the needs of our suppliers.
• Verifiers and Improved Systems Needed
Our plan to buy more sustainable coffee in the future can only be realized if our network of approved suppliers participating in C.A.F.E. Practices grows. The process of approving more suppliers will involve conducting a great number of inspections by third-party verifiers. At the end of fiscal 2006, we had 143 trained and approved verifiers in the field, which was 43 more than the previous year.
Going forward, we expect that more verifiers will be needed to keep pace with the increasing number of verifications that will be required. We see the need for more trained verifiers as an opportunity, and we are encouraged by the interest farmers have shown in becoming approved C.A.F.E. Practices suppliers. And because of this, verifiers will need to be responsive to the increasing demand of more inspections.
• Extending C.A.F.E. Practices to Africa and Asia Pacific
Increasing our focus on C.A.F.E. Practices in Africa and Asia Pacific has proven to be difficult, as expected. In both Africa and Asia Pacific, Starbucks has been working to introduce C.A.F.E. Practices to coffee farmers, processors and suppliers. Progress has been slowed by realities of local coffee industries, lack of financial transparency, minimal understanding of C.A.F.E. Practices among local suppliers, and too few trained verifiers.
We realize there may be a need to consider regional guidance for C.A.F.E. Practices to make the criteria more relevant to unique conditions in Africa and Asia Pacific. Also, the need for more locally based support through regional Farmer Support Centers has been confirmed. In Kenya, Starbucks has been collaborating with the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) on various sustainability initiatives as a first step toward advancing C.A.F.E. Practices in Africa.
Given our optimistic mindset at Starbucks, we choose to view the barriers outlined above as opportunities for improvement. The amount of time, energy and resources needed to implement and manage C.A.F.E. Practices across such a complex, diverse and sprawling supply chain is considerable – and at times more than we anticipated.
When we first introduced C.A.F.E. Practices, we were inspired and motivated to help create a better future for coffee farmers and their communities, based on a shared interest to sustain the production of high-quality coffee. We did expect the process to involve challenges, but these challenges have not changed our vision. In fact, our vision – and commitment – has only deepened.
Ben Packard is Director of Environmental Affairs for Starbucks Coffee
Environmental Communications Comes to the Fore
By Don Millar, President of The Element Agency (http://www.theelementagency.com/green/)
Today's broadened concern about the environment has created new opportunities for smart businesses to communicate in a way that connects much more deeply with target audiences than traditional advertising and marketing ever has before.
With every opportunity, however, comes barriers and this one is no different. The barriers to successful environmental communications include the seeming inability of traditional ad agencies to communicate effectively about meaningful values combined with self-styled green police using blogs to hold companies to account.
But the biggest barrier is probably the old-school thinking of the companies themselves. A recent Financial Times article referred to green communication as a matter of "corporate hygiene" – a mindset as stuck in the past as a horse and buggy is compared to a hybrid car.
We advise clients to think in terms of opportunity not obligation, in other words, provide authentic examples of environmental progress, then play offense. This thinking needs to replace defensiveness.
It is also imperative that the communications provide an honest representation of what the company is doing – the public, and even activist interest groups, do not expect perfection nearly as much as they look for sincerity and progress.
This mindset is a reflection of the fact that the audience for green communications has changed – it's no longer a narrow, highly motivated niche but a mainstream swath of the public. Naturally, this means a different message and a higher profile for green attributes.
Understanding this new, broader audience gets to the central point of green marketing today – environmental values should stand at the center of a company's brand and overall image.
British Petroleum (BP) is a great example with their "Beyond Petroleum" campaign. They got out early, put their alternative energy research and development front and center but didn't pretend they are something they aren't.
We took the same approach with a Canadian client, Epcor, a power and water producer. We zeroed in on the great work they do cleaning up water pollution at a high profile site. This got them important notice from green activists as an innovative and sound approach to the environment on this specific issue, building credibility for future work.
The main thing for businesses today is to move quickly, be authentic and then do what we call "greening their brand" – putting an important, values-based message front and center.
Don Millar is President of The Element Agency a communications, advertising and online firm specializing in environmental communications from offices in New York, Vancouver and Mexico City. email@example.com.
By Terry Kellogg, Executive Director of 1% For The Planet
At its best, the field of environmentally preferable purchasing can take credit for the birth and development of the natural and organic product market, projected to reach global sales north of $100 billion next year. On a micro level, it can now boast of significant success stories like the Toyota Prius and EPA's Energy Star program. The broader LOHAS (Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability) market paints an even more compelling picture: estimated at $230 billion in the US alone.
Even with double digit compound annual growth rates for more than a decade, however, the LOHAS market is still seen as largely untapped. Its remaining potential exists because more than 30% of Americans seem ready and willing to support companies whose values are perceived to be in line with their own. And to this day there are many categories with underdeveloped values-oriented offerings.
Stories about the LOHAS market over the next two years will be headlined by more mainstream (Wal Mart and GE have already perked up) entrants. These players will underscore the market's transition from a niche opportunity to a powerful segment that no company can afford to ignore.
But this market is not cut out for companies with unexamined practices looking to make a quick buck where flush demand coupled with relatively thin offerings has created very attractive margins. The interplay between conscious consumers and companies hoping to gain their preference has already helped to establish very high expectations for performance standards across a wide range of initiatives. Ignorance of these expectations could spell disaster for a new entrant.
In looking for a way in, some companies will take a piecemeal approach to reducing their own ecological footprint or developing a more sustainable product line. There is a tremendous amount of information available to guide such decisions and almost without exception, case studies illustrate a strong correlation between environmental gains and positive business results, particularly in the early stages of adaptation.
Even for the well-informed, however, there remains the challenge of moving effectively beyond low hanging fruit. Today's paradigm offers a finite supply of cash positive investments that yield solid environmental gains. Positioning ahead of the curve requires an appetite for risk that too few companies are ready to embrace. Thus the critical requirement for additional investments aimed at changing today's paradigm.
A subtly different way to approach the LOHAS market is to ask: how can we as a company maximize our potential to affect change on a macro scale, and how can we do it in a way that best supports our long-term business interests. Looking through this lens, opportunities will emerge that tightly knit sustainable business practices with overall business strategy. Theses initiatives will garner the internal resources required for success; and their success will ensure both their longevity and the opportunity for similar efforts down the road. Many such initiatives will be the same as those surfaced through a purely internal assessment of options. But overall, they are more likely to maximize returns to both the environment and the sponsoring enterprise.
1% For The Planet (1%FTP) is an increasingly attractive initiative for many companies. Members of 1%FTP – companies that commit at least one percent of their sales (or the sales from a brand) to environmental causes every year – have grown in number from 90 to nearly 500 in less than two years. They hail from nearly every sector imaginable, and range in size from billion dollar publicly-traded entities to pre-revenue start-ups and family owned businesses. They are attracted to the network for a wide range of reasons including connectivity – with other members, with causes they care about and with committed consumers.
1%FTP is a tool that can help address important barriers that still exist in the LOHAS arena. Because it's a program that has the potential to be adopted widely (unlike labeling schemes limited to certain sectors) it also has the potential to become recognized and acted on widely. One Percent also reflects the kind of clear and powerful commitment that easily resonates with a wide audience. This helps address the challenge of effectively communicating what can be confusing initiatives that lack relevance to enough people.
As a tool to affect change, it is hard to match the potential embodied in purchasing power. But for the market to work effectively in this regard, a spectrum of meaningful choices must be available with enough information to drive consumer decision-making. The growth of the legitimate LOHAS segment speaks to the steady erosion of these barriers. One Percent works to align and reward committed companies and activists, two powerful macro-societal change agents. In doing so, 1%FTP places a significant amount of potential power in the hands of a consumer base that appears ready and eager to use it.
Terry Kellogg is the Executive Director of 1% For The Planet. Prior to joining 1%, Terry ran Timberland's Environmental Stewardship department and worked for the renewable energy retailer Green Mountain Energy. Terry began his career in environmental work at the Greater Yellowstone Coalition in Bozeman, MT.
By Arthur B. Weissman, Ph.D., President and CEO, Green Seal, Inc.
Almost like the Arctic ice breaking up, the public's awareness of global warming and its responsibility for causing it has broken through dramatically in the past year. Soon people may realize that the products and services they purchase can affect the climate, their health, or the rest of the living world. At that point, the continuing effort to promote green products and services may indeed succeed in making the world more sustainable.
For several decades, a small group of quasi-governmental or private national organizations around the world has been quietly promoting a green economy by identifying green products and services. The tools they have employed typically include developing environmental leadership standards, certifying products and services that meet the standards, licensing use of a seal or logo to certified products and services, and working with institutional purchasers to green their procurement and operations. In the United States, Green Seal, Inc., has been active since 1989 as the national program (although it is a non-profit organization). There are now around three dozen such programs around the world, organized through the Global Ecolabeling Network.
Recent Developments and Directions
In the past few years there has been a veritable explosion of interest in certain institutional and industrial sectors in green products, services, and operations. Environmental standards that received little attention for years suddenly became adopted as the de facto product standards by government agencies and other large purchasers, causing industry to scramble to meet the standards. For example, Green Seal's standard for institutional cleaning chemical products was adopted by Massachusetts for cleaning its facilities, then by other States and even US EPA, and last year New York State required all its elementary and secondary schools to be cleaned by products meeting the Green Seal standard or its Canadian equivalent.
Concomitantly, these large public and private institutions are increasingly looking at their entire operations, including their purchasing and facilities management, from an environmental and energy perspective. In these assessments, the institutions seek available environmental standards to ensure that the products and services they buy and their operational practices are environmentally responsible. We have had direct experience in evaluating purchasing and facilities management at the World Bank, University of Miami, and other institutions. They can collectively exert a significant pull on the market in a more sustainable direction.
Lately, this kind of greening of institutions and the supply chain through adoption of environmental standards and criteria has extended to large retailers. Initially certain retailers like Home Depot and Lowe's adopted environmental standards and certification for particular commodities like wood, primarily under pressure from advocacy groups. Now, however, they are increasingly embracing green standards across a range of different categories. The world's largest retailer, Wal-Mart, has committed to greening its product line by using environmental criteria or metrics assembled in a scorecard to evaluate each product along with traditional measures of price, performance, and availability.
The big question is whether the use of environmental standards and certification will successfully transition to the consumer world. Programs like Green Seal were originally intended for consumers, but it was too difficult in the 1990s to break into the consumer market. Nor is it clear even now whether consumers will truly pay attention to environmental and social considerations in their purchasing on a regular basis. If they did, consumers could collectively cause an enormous pull toward sustainability. Consider it like an anti-SUV movement – something like the current fad for hybrid cars magnified many times.
In the meantime, we continue to work primarily in the institutional realm to make products and services more healthful and environmentally responsible. The health angle on everyday products and services is extremely powerful, and could potentially reach to the consumer level. In the janitorial industry, for example, there is growing awareness of the effect of building materials and chemicals on human health, particularly with respect to respiratory systems. Cleaning chemicals themselves are now implicated in the asthma epidemic in schools nationwide, as some products still contain powerful respiratory irritants and asthmagens.
In fact, New York State is sponsoring an update and revision of Green Seal's environmental standard for cleaning chemicals to ensure that it protects sensitive and vulnerable populations such as children. We will be working at the frontier of science and its applications to the marketplace in this revision project, because the science behind asthmagenicity and related effects is still uncertain. We are including nationally-recognized pediatric health experts and experts from such agencies as the Center for Disease Control. At the end, it is hoped that the revised standard will identify the current environmental leadership products in the market and also those that are specially formulated to protect the most sensitive and vulnerable populations.
Another highly significant area to which these tools could be applied is energy and climate change. The Federal government's Energy Star program may be able to guide the consumer market for goods and appliances, and a likely cap-and-trade policy may take care of industrial output. In between, institutional buyers and facilities will need guidance on reducing their energy and carbon impact. For example, a current evaluation Green Seal is conducting for The Pentagon includes finding efficiencies in its lighting systems and heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning systems. Just this one enormous building can yield tremendous savings, but consider the result multiplied thousands of times. Directing institutions to energy-efficient, low-carbon-impact products, services, and systems could be the next frontier for our programs.
Major Obstacles
Green Seal and its sister programs have faced enormous hurdles over the years, especially from U.S.-based multinational companies that saw us as a threat to their marketing hegemony. While some countercurrents remain in industry, their blatant opposition from the 1990s is largely past, thanks to the greening movement in Europe and other forces. Still, promoting green products and services in the U.S. economy and getting environmental standards and certification incorporated on a larger scale are a challenge.
As much as industry, corporate America, and governments at all levels are beginning to embrace green practices – from green building construction and maintenance to green operations and green procurement – on the whole they continue not to consider the environmental effects of their actions. This is largely due to cultural norms and traditional practice, rather than conscious opposition. After all, we are all engaged in a kind of cultural revolution in trying to consider and incorporate the environmental aspects of our economic activities, after centuries of paying scant attention to them (externalities largely unchecked). Institutions tend to take time to change course and incorporate new paradigms, and that is what is happening now. For some of us the progress is excruciatingly slow, especially given the magnitude and severity of the world's environmental problems, including loss of species and biodiversity, deforestation and other habitat loss, climate change, and pervasive toxic pollution.
The wild card may be the consumer market. It is a market where tens of millions of dollars are required to establish brand recognition; where sellers continue to emphasize appearance, price, and superficial performance above all other characteristics; where consumers say one thing and buy another (many more profess to buying green than actually do so); where service providers like hoteliers fear to do anything to compromise what they call guest satisfaction. Yet, if everything aligns correctly, the consumer market can much more quickly make changes for the better. In fact, let us declare for once and all that no green product should perform less well than comparable leading brands if the green products movement is to take hold. The reason the hybrid car is selling is not just that it is environmentally preferable but also that it saves on fuel and drives well. Nor can we expect consumers to pay more for green products out of altruism or abstract concerns. That might be the exciting result of large retailers promoting green products: they can control costs in the supply chain by creating the needed economies of scale.
If industry makes green products that perform as well and are price-competitive, is the battle won? Perhaps – if we know for sure which products are green. And that is where we come back to environmental standards, certification, and labeling programs. Independent, credible groups like Green Seal are striving to provide the technical and evaluative framework for the greening of the economy. The time is growing more ripe – and more urgent – for both consumers and institutions to embrace this framework.
Arthur B. Weissman, Ph.D. is President and CEO of Green Seal, Inc.
By Michelle Wyman – Executive Director, International Council of Local Environmental Initiatives, USA (ICLEI-USA)
Eighty percent of Americans now live in cities. By 2050, 90 percent will. Cities are also where most of the energy derived from fossil fuels is consumed, where economic and political power is concentrated, where decisions that are felt everywhere are made. That's why cities are the places that have the most direct and effective access in the effort to reduce global warming pollution and pioneer sustainable development.
Cities across the country and, indeed, around the world are demonstrating their commitment to sustainable development and climate protection through "green purchasing" initiatives, also known as "sustainable purchasing" or "environmentally preferable procurement." Doing so also reflects the cities' commitments to fiscal responsibility, social equity, community and environmental stewardship.
U.S. cites large and small can exercise their significant buying power to have both a direct impact on the market because of the volume of products and services they procure and an indirect impact by spurring similar action across the private sector. They do so while also increasing their bottom line. The growing emphasis on green purchasing presents unprecedented opportunity for the business community.
Think about all the local government facilities in your city: courtrooms, city halls, office buildings, police and fire stations, recreational facilities, parking lots, and libraries. Consider their computers, photocopiers, refrigerators, fax machines and lighting, heating and cooling needs. Cities also deal in landscaping, catering, conferences and meetings as well as vehicle fleets.
If cities choose to make all of their buildings, products and services "environmentally friendly," it's dizzying to consider the widespread and long-lasting benefits for our lives today as well as those of our children and grandchildren and for the business community. It's estimated that replacing 500 incandescent exit signs with ENERGY STAR versions would save $25,700 a year and $208,300 life cycle on maintenance and energy costs and 119 and 1,190 tons of carbon emissions, respectively.
There are plenty of important lifestyle changes that people can and should be making on an individual basis, but the impact of even simple changes at the city level can quickly multiply by the thousands and beyond. Together, U.S. state and local governments spend more than $385 billion on goods and services and billions more to power those products. For cities embarking on a path to slash carbon emissions, purchasing greener, more energy efficient products and services can make a huge difference. It's estimated that by specifying energy efficiency in purchasing policies we could cut energy costs in half, not to mention significantly reduce global warming pollution.
Cities aren't just viewing green purchasing as a one-time cost savings; they are calculating the direct and indirect costs for the full life cycle of products. It's about how we create, use and dispose of the products. Seattle's Environmentally Responsible Purchasing Policy directs departments to consider life cycle effects from: pollution, waste generation, energy consumption, recycled material content, depletion of natural resources, and the potential impact on health and nature. This opens even more windows for local governments and for business.
Not only can local governments pack a financial punch at the point of purchase, they can shift the market in favor of energy efficiency. Adopting a formal policy of green procurement sends a message to manufacturers, service providers and the market as a whole: "We're demanding green products and services. You must supply them."
Here in the U.S., plenty of cities are establishing or ramping up sustainable purchasing policies.
The city of Chicago passed its own standards for energy-efficient buildings, the Chicago Standard, and the writing was on the wall that new construction and major renovations must achieve the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standards.
Same thing for Austin, Texas, which in 2000 passed a resolution requiring all public projects larger than 5,000 square feet to be LEED certified.
In Denver, which has launched the "Greenprint Denver" initiative to further encourage sustainable purchasing and other green practices, the Wellington E. Webb Municipal Office Building was built in 2002 to Energy Star qualifications to consolidate 40 agencies and provide the city government with a number of energy saving measures. In addition, Denver voters approved a $378 million bond in May, 2005 for the creation of a new justice center, which will be built to LEED certification standards. New York City has earned the nickname "the Big Green Apple" by switching all of the traffic signals to energy-efficient lighting (LEDs), saving $6 million a year, and replacing about 200,000 refrigerators in public housing with energy-efficient versions, saving $7 million a year. Cities like Charlotte, North Carolina, and Houston, Texas, are greening their municipal vehicle fleets by adding more fuel-efficient and hybrid vehicles.
By making green choices, local governments can encourage citizens and businesses in the community to follow their lead. After the city moved further along the green spectrum, the private sector in New York quickly followed suit, with green building design becoming the new status symbol. Landmarks of the sustainable building craze include the Conde Nast Building at 4 Times Square, the residential Solaire in Battery Park City and the Hearst Tower.
Of course, making sustainable purchasing choices also enhances the sheer quality of life in communities. It provides direct health benefits for city employees as well as less global warming and air pollution, all of which makes these cities cleaner and safer places to live, work and raise families. Taxpayers can also rest assured that their money is being spent in an efficient manner. As the head of the Commission for a Sustainable London 2012, which is planning a "green" Olympics, said recently, "Sustainability isn't just about buying recycled paper - it's about using purchasing power to do some good."
It's easy to see why sustainable purchasing practices have taken hold in so many cities.
At ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability, we work closely with more than 240 cities in the U.S. and more than 800 around the world working to improve the global environment through local action. We provide resources, tools, and technical assistance to help local governments measure and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in their communities through our Cities for Climate Protection ® (CCP) campaign. We are engaged with ENERGY STAR, a joint program of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy designed to alert consumers to more energy efficient appliances and equipment. Through this partnership and our work with cities designing sustainability and climate protection plans, we strongly encourage cities to go green when possible.
As more cities sign the U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement (which commits a city to the Kyoto target of reducing emissions 7 percent below 1990 levels by 2012) and join the CCP, there will be a surge in demand from local governments for green products and services that will help them meet their emissions reductions goals.
The sustainable purchasing movement has grown leaps and bounds in the global market as well. In 2002, the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg committed public authorities to "promote public procurement policies that encourage development and diffusion of environmentally sound goods and services."
ICLEI is a partner in Promoting an Energy Efficient Public Sector (PePS), working with 40 municipalities in Mexico to make green purchasing choices. Mexico's government sector energy conservation activities began in the early '90s and have burgeoned into perhaps the broadest government end-use program in the world, impacting hundreds of government facilities. The country's energy management agency, CONAE, an ICLEI partner which houses our Mexico office, provides a strong example of how limited resources can be leveraged into enormous savings. The Administración Pública Federal (APF) program, for example, is a lighting initiative that has resulted in audits and retrofits in almost one thousand Mexican government buildings.
ICLEI-Canada also serves on the North American Green Purchasing Initiative (NAGPI) steering committee that works to coordinate green purchasing activities, engage other stakeholders and pool information and resources. ICLEI-Europe is leading a collaborative, continent-wide effort on sustainable procurement. This is an extensive effort that includes trainings and workshops, surveys and research, and multi-country partnerships. We recently co-hosted the sixth EcoProcura ® conference in Barcelona, Spain, where 360 delegates from 53 countries gathered to provide a mechanism for dialogue between the private sector and the public sector to advance sustainable product innovation and further promote a market for sustainable products and services.
Despite the enthusiasm for sustainable purchasing, plenty of challenges remain. City staff who ultimately implement these policies require proper training as to the merits of green purchasing and the options available to them. Agencies shouldn't feel pressured not to procure a more expensive product or service if, when you calculate the associated use and disposal costs, it will actually save the city money. This underlying philosophy – saving money, saving energy, creating better communities – must also become part of the culture within local government.
As with many policies, the scope of local government purchasing makes it inherently difficult to monitor and enforce. Some governments are addressing this through permanent mechanisms and tools in municipal management to ensure unwavering implementation, effective monitoring and continual improvement. Competing laws and bureaucracies can sometimes stand in the way, raising questions as to a city's authority. A more centralized system might allow policing of purchasing and blocking undesirable products.
Some vendors and businesses claim they are excluded by green purchasing policies. In reality, they are entering a market of great possibility. Rather than harming industry, sustainable procurement is a market-based tool which provides incentives to stimulate innovation and improve the sustainability of production patterns. As the international regulatory framework and consumption patterns change in the context of current events and demands, sustainable procurement provides an opportunity for companies offering innovative solutions to find markets for their products and to develop further.
The most well-known example is Wal-Mart which announced in the fall of 2005 that it plans to increase fuel efficiency in its truck fleet by 25 percent over three years and doubling it within 10 years; reduce greenhouse gases by 20 percent in seven years; reduce energy use at stores by 30 percent; and cut solid waste from U.S. stores and Sam's Clubs by 25 percent in three years. Wal-Mart is also now the biggest seller of organic milk and the biggest buyer of organic cotton in the world and is working with suppliers to figure out ways to cut down on packaging and energy costs. Wal-Mart is taking such profound steps because it's good for the environment, and their investments represent revenue increases and a positive presence in local communities.
The EPA recently ranked Wells Fargo & Co., which uses some 550 million kilowatt hours of renewable energy to light up its financial centers each year, the top buyer of "green" power in the country. The financial giant is among 40 Fortune 500 firms that have committed to doubling their renewable energy purchases this year.
There is clearly a new level of awareness about global warming – President Bush gave it credence in his State of the Union address the day after 10 CEOs from the likes of Duke Energy and General Electric called on the government to address the problem – and a burning desire on the part of the world's citizens to take action now to curb global warming pollution. This is a desire that only burns hotter with every day. People are making changes in their daily lives and demanding that their elected officials – at the local, state and federal level – make changes on a larger scale.
Local governments have an invaluable role to play in promoting the use of green products, services and buildings. The great thing about green purchasing is that cities don't have to start from scratch or move toward these goals in isolation. By working together, cities can learn from each other and send powerful and consistent signals to the market. Government organizations find that green procurement policies reduce overall costs, offer significant opportunity to use materials, resources and energy more effectively, improve employee health and stimulate markets for innovative new products and services. With sustainable purchasing, cities can set the pace and lead the way as they have done in so many other aspects of climate protection and sustainable development.
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Recently I went to visit a batik (wax resist dyed fabric) artist and had some fabric custom stamped and dyed with Ouidah's most famous monument – the Door of No Return, where slaves were forced to embark on ships to the Americas.
The full story is written here: http://cathywu.com/journal/treadling/2013/08/20/batik-mccalls-m6279-porte-de-non-retour/
Aug 23, 2013, 08.51 AMby Mary Athey
fab dress and i do love your fabric. your blogs a brillant read and the story about the fabric and the stamp etc ate facinating. another gorgeous dress cathy x
Aug 28, 2013, 11.14 AMby cathytxtwfr
thanks mary :)
Aug 23, 2013, 02.15 AMby kisses
Like the style…looks very military
Aug 22, 2013, 11.04 PMby puffinlove
I just read your blog entry about this dress – gosh! So much in one garment. The history is grim indeed. The photos of the stamping and dying process were fascinating, and you made a nice dress out of the fabric!
Aug 28, 2013, 11.14 AMby cathytxtwfr
thanks, the history is grim, but thankfully its just that – history!
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35 Even in their own kingdom, surrounded by the great goodness that you gave to them, even in the wide and rich land that you gave them, they didn't serve you or turn from their wicked works. | 35 Even while they were in their kingdom, enjoying your great goodness to them in the spacious and fertile land you gave them, they did not serve you or turn from their evil ways. |
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9 Do what you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, and the God of peace will be with you. | 9 Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me--put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you. |
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Friday, November 23, 2012 - Page updated at 05:00 a.m.Recipe: Turkey and squash ravioli in brown butter-sage sauce
By The Washington Post
Wonton wrappers are ideal for making ravioli. The round ones used here are sold as gyoza or nasoya wrappers. This recipe would be a good place to use the dark meat — the leg and thigh — which is often overlooked on the turkey platter. Leftover squash finds a home here, too.
For the filling:
2 tablespoons olive oil
3/4 cup finely chopped onion
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 1/2 cups leftover turkey, cut into small pieces
1 cup mashed leftover squash
1/2 cup mascarpone cheese
1/2 cup chopped fresh parsley
1 1/2 teaspoons dried thyme
1 1/2 teaspoons dried sage
1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt
3/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
For the ravioli:
60 round wonton wrappers (one 12-ounce package)
8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter
1/2 cup coarsely chopped fresh sage
3 tablespoons chopped pecans
For the filling: Heat the oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. When the oil is hot, cook the onion and garlic together until softened and lightly browned, about eight minutes, stirring occasionally. Remove the skillet from the heat and add the turkey, squash, cheese, parsley, thyme, sage, salt and pepper, stirring to combine thoroughly.
For the ravioli: Set out a cooling rack.
Lay out 10 wonton wrappers on a work surface. Place about 1/2 tablespoon of the filling in the center of each wrapper.
Working with one wrapper at a time, brush or dab water along the outside edge and fold the wrapper into a semicircle, pressing gently to expel air and seal the edges together.
Pick up each ravioli and use your thumb and forefinger to pinch it along the curved edge to assure a tight seal.
Repeat with the remaining wrappers to use all the filling, placing the filled ravioli on the rack as you work.
Bring a large pot of water to a boil over medium-high heat. Working in four batches, add the ravioli and cook for about 4 minutes, until they are tender and rise to the top. Use a large slotted spoon or skimmer basket to gently lift the ravioli from the water and transfer them to the rack.
When all of the ravioli are cooked, heat the butter and sage in a large skillet over medium-high heat, stirring occasionally, until the butter melts and begins to brown, about 5 minutes.
Add the ravioli and toss gently to coat. Transfer to a serving platter and sprinkle with the pecans.
(If the skillet isn't large enough to hold and comfortably coat all of the ravioli at once, place the ravioli on the serving platter and pour the Brown Butter-Sage Sauce over them, tossing gently to coat, then sprinkle with the pecans.)
Makes about 60 ravioli (6 servings)
Nutrition per serving: 540 calories, 17 g protein, 40 g carbohydrates, 34 g fat, 14 g saturated fat, 100 mg cholesterol, 850 mg sodium, 5 g dietary fiber, 2 g sugar
Adapted from a recipe by Terri Pischoff Wuerthner, a cooking instructor and food writer in California.
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This flan was better than the one I previously called my favorite. The caramalizing of the sugar wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. My neighbors all loved it.
This was the best flan I've ever had. I made sure to pull the caramel off the heat just as it started to turn a dark amber (it kept cooking off the heat and got even darker). I checked it after 35 minutes in the oven and was horrified to see that a thin skin on top was golden brown and puffed up! Maybe my oven was too hot and overcooked the top, but I pulled it out and peeled off the burnt skin and it was still wonderful. I needed nine for a Mexican themed dinner party, but doubled the recipe so I had three extra in case I messed up the unmolding process. After chilling for three hours, I couldn't wait to see if it worked and tested one. I let it sit at room temperature for 30 minutes, but it was still cool on the bottom, so I put it in a bowl of hot water for about 30 seconds and it unmolded beautifully. I didn't need to let it chill overnight and I still have two extra just for me!
I served this flan to the 14 members of my women's group. They voted it the best flan they had ever had. The biggest compliment was from the our hispanic member. She said she had eaten lots of flan in her life, but this beat them all. They all asked for the recipe and said it would become the family tradition flan.
Although I liked the recipe, this is NOT a typical Spanish flan. The original recipe may have regional variations, but it is usually made only with eggs, milk, sugar and grated lemon rind. Actually it's more a non-fuss, staple dessert in most homes, than a fancy dish. My family recipe is as follows: Beat 6 large eggs, add 2 cups milk, 7 tbsps sugar and 1 teasp. grated lemon rind. Mix well. Pour in caramelised ramekins. Put them in large oven sheet with water. Cook them for 1/2 hour (300F) or until knife inserted comes out clean. Wait until completely cool to turn them over in plates.
This is the best, foolproof flan I've ever made. I have used this recipe twice since the first time I made it and I've mastered the sugar bit. I've used half and half once and whipping cream once and one time I had no milk and I substitued 1/2 whipping cream an 1/2 water and each time it has come out fine. I also only used vanilla extract because I have no idea where to get vanilla bean. But it comes out perfect everytime. This last time I made it I used a corning ware pie plate and even then it was just fine. I absolutely love this recipe!
After reading all the reviews, I was sure it would be fabulous and it was! I was nervous - the caramel just didn't seem right (go for medium ambernot "deep"), but I had faith and it was perfect.
I've made it twice, and the recipe has been picked up by the rest of my extended family. For the quality of taste, it is such an easy recipe.
This dish met my 3 favorite requirements- easy, quick, and fabulous. I used it to duplicate a local restaurant's Carmel Capuccino Custard. I added 6 teaspoons of coffee extract to the steeping milk/cream mixture. That's all I had to do to reproduce a dessert that will be talked about for years. Those kind of recipes don't come along that often and I love it when they do. This one's a keeper.
This was the best flan I ever made! It turned out perfect. I added lemon zest and it gave such a great flavor. This will be 1 of my favorites forever!
I made this recipe for a mexican-themed Christmas dinner this year. It was truly fantastic. I had never made flan before, so I was a little intimidated. The only problem I had was that I burned the caramel on my first try. The recipe says to cook the caramel until it is a dark amber. But by the time I got it poured into the cups, it was more of a black gooey mess. My second try was much more successful. I took it off of the heat as soon as I saw a little bit of golden brown color, and it worked perfectly. The recipe also doubles well, as I had to make a double batch for a big family crowd. I will definitely make this again!!!


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Hmmm... sounds like I've read about this somewhere....
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Why not do something active?
Why not get out and explore the country that you are in with your wife and kids?
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So, you use Solaris? Me too. And looking at alternatives now. It's a shame really, as the most stable gear I've run has been Solaris on Sparc.
Re:Hmm... (839 comments)
I hate to break it to you, but snow in Illinois and Colorado contain the same amount of water.
Re:Solvable. (839 comments)
Except that in a 5 light cluster, the bottom lights are always the TURN ARROWS. Green Light is always the 3rd from the top.
And even if it is green it does not mean you are clear to plow through with reckless abandon. Green means that you are clear to proceed through the intersection as long as it is clear of obstructions ( like other cars, pedestrians, etc. ).
Re:Hmm... (839 comments)
The ones you see around Denver *are* designed differently.
The shield around the lights is open on the top, so that it funnels wind downwards and blows the snow off of the light. The ones in Illinois are not. The Colorado shields cost ~$30.
This isn't a case of LEDs being bad. Nor is it "greens run amuck". It's idiots run amuck.
The driver of the truck should be prosecuted. In every light cluster with turn arrows, the turn arrows are on the bottom. They are NOT the solid green. And being from Illinois, in Driver's Ed we were all taught that Green does not mean 'Go'. It means *proceed when the intersection is clear*. So, failure on several points by the driver of the truck.
Illinois needs to install the same snow shields that Colorado and other states have successfully done with their LED light installations.
We'd probably have them already, except we spent all our DOT money on 'Rod R. Blagojevich - Governor' signs.
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I thought of the same thing when I read the article. "Gee, that sounds like the miniaturized nuclear devices the Foundation created!". Science Fiction again becoming science reality. Cool.
Forget QOS (362 comments)
QOS is not what you need to focus on.
Latency in this application will kill your sound quality far more than a few dropped packets. Optimally you'll want to be under 300ms for things to be manageable.
The other main thing to look for is a CODEC you can use with your chosen provider that uses as little bandwidth as possible and supports loss concealment. You need to worry about those two factors long before QOS becomes relevant to the equation.
Hi Michael, you great bastion of upstanding editorial stewardship!
CBS is given the use of the airwaves in order to serve the public good, through broadcast television. Increasingly, CBS ( and it's parent Viacom ) seem to be attempting to control the political discussion in the country. Blocking this ad is a perfect example of their hyprocrisy and conflict of interest.
The ad campaign started on the web, and unfortunately looks as if it will end there. This has serious implications for the future role of large corporate controlled media. It seems the web and the internet is proving more and more to be the only place where opposing political views can be openly debated without corporate imposed censorship.
If you don't agree with the editors, you will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.
Food for thought anyway.


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St. Petersburg, FL (Sports Network) - One night after Matt Garza pitched the first no-hitter in Tampa Bay franchise history, the Rays used a solid outing from starter James Shields and a timely RBI double by Matt Joyce to defeat the Detroit Tigers, 3-2, in the continuation of a four-game series.
Shields (9-9) tossed 6 2/3 innings allowed two runs on nine hits with seven strikeouts for the Rays, who have won four straight and moved within two games of the first-place New York Yankees in the AL East. Carlos Pena hit a two-run homer in the victory.
"I felt I had good command of my stuff tonight," said Shields. "I had my fastball working and that sets up everything else."
Ryan Raburn drove in a run for the Tigers, who have dropped four of their last five contests.
Detroit's ace right-hander Justin Verlander pitched a complete game but suffered the loss. Verlander (12-6), who lost for the first time in his career against the Rays, permitted three runs on five hits with six strikeouts and three walks.
With the scored tied at 2-2 in the bottom of the sixth inning, Carl Crawford laced a single to shallow center field with one out and then stole second. Joyce then doubled down the right-field line to score Crawford.
Tampa reliever Randy Choate replaced Shields with a runner on first and two outs in the top of the seventh. Choate allowed a base hit to Johnny Damon and then intentionally walked Miguel Cabrera to load the bases. The third pitcher of the inning, Grant Balfour, then entered the game and struck out Brennan Boesch.
Joaquin Benoit struck out the side in the eighth and closer Rafael Soriano came on for a shaky ninth. Soriano got the first out, but then surrendered a ground-rule double and a single to put runners on the corners. Damon then worked a walk to load the bases for Cabrera, who grounded into a game-ending 5-4-3 double play for his 27th save of the season.
"Longoria did a great job to help turn that double play -- it was just a real good win for us," said Shields.
The Rays grabbed a 2-0 lead in the first inning. A two-out walk to Evan Longoria preceded a blast by Pena deep over the wall in right-center field. It was Pena's 22nd home run of the season.
"The pitch (to Pena) was a little bit up in the zone, but he hit it good," said Verlander.
In the top of the second, Shields struck out Ramon Santiago with two men on base and then got three straight outs in the fourth after Cabrera led off with a double.
Shields escaped potential trouble in the top of the fifth. Alex Avila led off with a single and Scott Sizemore doubled to put two runners in scoring position with no outs. After Santiago fanned, Austin Jackson hit a soft grounder back to Shields for the second out and Will Rhymes popped out.
Again in the sixth, Shields allowed a single and a double to the first two batters of the inning, this time in the form of Damon and Cabrera, but did not elude trouble this time. With one out, Raburn hit a chopper to the middle of the infield and both runners scored as the throw to first by Jason Bartlett went wide and created a 2-2 score. Shields eventually settled down and got two straight outs to prevent further damage.
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Newburyport, Mass., December 13, 2011 – PCI Synthesis, Inc. (www.pcisynthesis.com), a 12-year-old custom chemical manufacturer of new chemical entities (NCEs), generic active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), and other specialty chemical products, announced the successful completion of a major expansion at its Devens, Mass. Research and Development facility.
The expansion, which includes several new research hoods, analytical instruments, additional support equipment, additional staff, and a major expansion to the site's existing kilo lab capacity, was initiated to support PCI's expanding activities in early- and late-stage clinical candidate programs. Since September 1st, the company has brought on board 20 new staff members in several functional areas to further support its growth in development of new compounds.
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Here in Northern Virginia I wage a never ending war against bindweed. I bought some moonflowers and have been letting them sit in their little pots until I get time to plant them -- and darned if they don't look just like bindweed. I know that people buy Roses of Sharon while I spend a fair bit of gardening time pulling up the seedlings -- is this the same thing and moonflowers are desirable plants in some locations and INVASIVE KILLERS in my area? |
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- Posted by arjo_reich 6a (Nashville, TN) (My Page) on Mon, Jun 4, 07 at 10:33
I get a little confused when people just list them as moonflowers as there is a morning glory (I. alba) and a datura (datura inoxia) variant... among others. Either way, both can become invasive if you're in it's hardiness zone, and 7a is pretty close, but moon flowers, like morning glories, have seeds that can lay dormant in the ground for several years before germinating and I think that's what really gets people's goat over them in terms of being invasive. You've decided you want something else in that area and you're fighting seedlings for the next several years. Personally, I love them and put them in several locations where I can either maintain seedlings (around a tree) if I get tired of them, or out in the back of my property where the only thing they'll fight/crowd out is poison ivy and other types of invasive vines. As for appearance, I can tell you that the morning glory variant has very distinctive heart-shaped leaves once it gets it's first set of true leaves as do most morning glory vines. <shrug> |
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London could be hit with sleet and snow showers this week as an arctic blast reaches the UK today.
Water giant Severn Trent today raised its dividend while boasting its customers pay the lowest water and sewerage bills in England and Wales — showing rival utilities a clean pair of heels.
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Nearly eight million households will wake up to higher energy costs today when British Gas hikes its prices in the latest round of winter bill rises.
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David Cameron defended his position on Page Three, today, denying that there was a mismatch between his stance on scantily clad models in The Sun and his position on internet pornography.
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npower chief executive Paul Massara today claimed the UK is on course to have a seventh major energy supplier after it sold 770,000 gas and electricity customer accounts to Telecom Plus.
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The Vagrant is a 1992 comedy horror film. It stars Bill Paxton and Michael Ironside and revolves around a yuppie (Paxton) who is being driven insane by a crazed bum (Marshall Bell) after moving into a new home in which the bum had been squatting.
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The fourth and all-new Rise Up & Shout! hits the boards of the Barnsdall Gallery Theatre on Saturday, March 16, at 7 p.m.
The benefit show highlights the talents of "the next generation" of LGBTQ youth. It is now in its eighth year and has involved dozens of community volunteers and gay youth seeking a place to make their voices known.
The Performance
Singers, dancers, hip-hop artists, classical musicians, comics and spoken word artists take part in what co-producer Richard Neely calls "a unique community forum, for one all, including the audience." Each of the three shows presented so far have been sold out, with those attending as much a part of the spirited evening as the talent on stage. This year's show will once again be hosted by internationally acclaimed performer Prince Poppycock.
A new addition to the Rise Up team is John Coppola, a seasoned director in the Los Angeles community. "I am honored to be the director for this great project," he says. "The LGBT voice grows stronger and stronger throughout the nation. It's an exciting time to be witness to the voice of the next generation." Also signed on are well-known local performance artists Jason Jenn and Ian McKinnon, who will also bring their expertise and guidance to the project.
Another fresh take on this year's presentation is the show's poster. Previous images were contributed by famed theatrical illustrator David Edward Bryd and renowned portraitist Don Bachardy. The 2014 show takes a nod almost seventy years to the past, with an image of two ballet dancers drawn by prolific Los Angeles artist Sidney Bronstein, who was incarcerated in a state penitentiary in the late-1940s for being gay. "It is our tribute to an artist whose life was cut short" says Rise Up producer Brian Gleason, "but also an acknowledgement of the tragic circumstances for most gay and lesbian people during that time." Indeed, continues Gleason, one of the central purposes of Rise Up & Shout! is to create a bridge between the gay generations and to provide wisdom and mentoring between young and old.
One of the features of the program is a series of workshops in the weeks leading up to the event designed to enhance the youths' self-esteem and sense of life purpose.
Early ticket purchase for the March 16 show is encouraged; advance tickets are $25–$30 if available at the door—and can be obtained at www.riseupandshout.org.
A reception will follow the show, allowing the performers to mingle with their family and friends. The Barnsdall Gallery Theatre is located at 4800 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, CA 90027.
The Documentary
Rise Up And Shout! tells the story of four generations of creative gay voices in Los Angeles who unite to create a theatrical showcase for gay youth on September 9, 2006. In the process, a unique community is created made up of young and old, black and white, shy and loud — including an 83 year-old priest and an 18 year old former prostitute and poet.
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About This Project
My wife was watching TV and she saw a Bookshelf on a Home Depot commercial with diagonal shelving. She kept telling me how much she wanted a bookshelf like that. So, for my first wood project ever, I decided to try and tackle it for her. It is slightly over 7 feet wide and a little over 6 feet tall. I am currently trying to learn sketchup8 to create plans for this project.
Unfortunately I didn't use a certain plan from Ana's site for this project, but you can find any bookcase plan and place the diagonal shelves in place of the horizontal ones.
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Lady Goats replied on Permalink
Just... Wow!
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
loniwolfe replied on Permalink
So you totally just solved my no fireplace dilemma! I think I'm going to take your design here and leave an open space for some electric logs. Thank you so much for sharing, it is really stunning!
I second that Wow!
This is your first project? Seriously! Fab!!!
nicwolford replied on Permalink
Very cool
Very cool. How did you cut the slots for the interlocking shelves?
Those were challenging because, as I stated before I am not even a beginner. I was going to try and use my little trim router to cut them but I learned quickly routers cause much saw dust. I don't have a router table and my router is small. I decided to use my miter saw. I measured out where the slots should go and Cut the outside boarders of the slots with my miter saw. I don't have a jig saw either so I chiseled the the remaining piece to form the slot. I then used my small trim router to smooth out the slots. After I got in a groove it went pretty fast. It was a lot of Slots. Like I said before, I am very new and I know there are easier ways to do this lol. Just a hint..If you ever use interlocking slots and plan on painting the project, I wouldn't make the slots exact to the bare wood. The primer and paint add to the thickness of the wood so it is important to take this into consideration before cutting the slots. Again, very new to this.
Guest replied on Permalink
Your not new anymore...
I don't think that you can say that your "new to this" any more. You cut your teeth on quite an ambitious project. You did a fantastic job! And just wait till you learn sketchup, the FUN you will have! Keep up the great work and keep posting! Can't wait to see your next project!
I've never seen a diagonal
I've never seen a diagonal bookcase before, but I like this one. You'll never have to worry about straightening books that have fallen on their sides either.
dawnkasotia replied on Permalink
Vertical bookcase
This is really cool.
So impressed!
This book case looks truly expensive! My excuse is always a lack of tools, but look what you did with what you had! Everything is square and precisely done.
Thank you
Thank you for your kind words. I appreciate all the input I have been getting. I look forward to posting more projects and getting more ideas.
katiesommer replied on Permalink
I really hope you post your
I really hope you post your plans! You did a nice job. I'd like to use a very scaled down version of this to make a wine rack in an open cupboard we have over our sink. Might have to pick your brain later. ;)
Great Job!!
I saw the same commercial your wife saw, and kept trying to describe the bookshelf to my husband. Now I can show him. Thanks for posting,and I hope you figure out Sketch Up so we can see your plans!
I have started to figure it out a little bit. I thank you for the comments and am close to finishing the plans. Again thank you for your comments
Guest replied on Permalink
My daughter loves to read, I am going to see if my husband can turn this into a headboard.I will post pics if it turns out! Great Job!
That would be an amazing project. If your husband does convert it, I would love to see the final results.
Laura Fama replied on Permalink
What a fantastic job you did! I love this!!
Emily Mazzone replied on Permalink
Love it!
And I second the headboard idea!
Angela Merrill replied on Permalink
Wow! That is wonderful...I
Wow! That is wonderful...I have a similar one that I LOVE and wanted for years. It was in the Pottery Barn Catalog and OUTRAGEOUSLY priced...I don't remember exactly the $$. When "Hold Everything", a subsidiary of PB, went out of business, I got the second to last one they had in stock for $200. AND...When I saw the HD commercial I realized I might be able to make a more custom version someday. Your story inspired me to plan something, and also to perhaps even open up and learn SketchUp which I downloaded months ago...Look forward to more projects!
Salathia replied on Permalink
whoa. like. dang! i want
whoa. like. dang! i want one!!!
Tausha replied on Permalink
Well it's crooked. LOL Jk I
Well it's crooked. LOL Jk I think it is insanely awesome! I hope my first project is even half as good!
Great Idea
Great beautiful first build! Thank you for this great idea that triggered an idea for myself. Going take this format, and adjust the dimensions to fit as a wine shelf.


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I'm deep in love. These Mexican tiles match the caesarstone "buttermilk" on the adjacent island perfectly. (Cabinets are dark brown horizontal grain in our modern rustic build). Now can I stop dreaming about kitchen finishes, please? |
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that's really good looking! |
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That's beautiful! Are the stars inset? Just thinking about dust, grease etc. I think they would be worth it though :) |
Lovely! Can't wait to see it installed. |
They are beautiful, but not fun to keep clean. |
Yes, the stars are inset. The backslash is for a stretch of counter that will be used primarily for making coffee, tea, secondary sink for washing veggies, etc.- so mess there will be minimal and I can get away with a high relief backsplash. It's a very open kitchen layout with two 9ft islands that run perpendicular to a wall (with the above bs) that's anchored at one end by ovens and the other end by fridge, with counter in the middle. Cooktop, main sink, primary prep and baking areas are on the islands. |
very neat. But how will you keep life's gunk out of the recessed areas? |
Yep, it will mean some maintenance, that's what old toothbrushes are for. I'm not in love with cleaning, so I'm careful about what I'm willing to do for beauty. (and aside from the more modern vibe, that's why I went with slab doors, I dislike cleaning the life gunk from the inset on inset doors.) The thick smooth glaze will help, but this will be the one non-low maintenance thing. |
That is really cool tile! Like you said, so long it's not in a area where it will collect grease, it should be fine. A soft bristled brush and some soapy water and it's good as new :) |
- Posted by laurainlincoln (My Page) on Wed, Jun 11, 14 at 17:05
that's really pretty! I think the texture is fantastic. And it's nice to see something a little different from what everyone's doing - enjoy! |
sounds so great; please please post pictures when you ar done! |
- Posted by myfoursons (My Page) on Wed, Jun 11, 14 at 19:42
1 -- I adore them, please tell me where you found them! They're fantastic! 2 -- Make sure you have a very experienced tile guy if there any cuts/corners involved. I had a bathroom with a tile that was very dimensional, and I ended up directing the guy on cuts and lining everything up. He hadn't work with that kind of tile before, and really struggled in wrapping it in the corners. Can't wait to see the finished product. |
myfoursons, they're at Statements Tile in Seattle. Good advice, too, thank you! |
Ooh la la! So pretty! |
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Just for Now is a YA novel with some exalted exclamation-point-laden reviews on Goodreads, and contains very adult themes. It's on sale for $1.99.
The day Preston Drake figured out that wealthy women paid well for a set of tight abs and a pretty face his life turned around. The run down rat-infested trailer he had shared with his alcoholic mother and three younger siblings was now only a place he visited to pay the bills and stock the pantry with food. He no longer worried about his family starving or living without electricity. The money he made entertaining rich older women more than covered his family's needs and his own.
He had it all figured out. Except… There was this girl.
She was as innocent as he was tainted.
Amanda Hardy wished her knees didn't get weak when Preston walked into a room. She hated the fact her heart raced when he flashed his smile in her direction. He had a different girl in his bed every night. He was the kind of boy a smart girl ran from. So, why was she coming up with ways to get close to him? Even when it was obvious he wanted to keep her at a distance.
Maybe her heart knew something the world didn't. Maybe Preston Drake was more than just a pretty face.
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Dangerous Flirtation was originally published in 1995 by Silhouette. This new digital edition is .99c. (I love the older cover, and the large print cover, too. Isn't that the dude from Seventh Heaven?
"First impressions are sometimes misleading. Not everyone is precisely what he seems to be."
Rosalind thought she had her life all mapped out — a job she loved, a thoughtful, reliable fiance … what more could she want?
How was she to know that a handsome stranger with laughing blue eyes and a roguish grin would burst into her life, kiss her to distraction and turn her world upside down?
But Jack Drayton was an enigma: there was clearly more to him than met the eye. He offered romance, excitement, passion — and challenged Rosalind to accept. Dared she?
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Forgive my Fins is a YA romance and is the first book in Childs' Fins series, which focuses on mermaids. (Obviously.) It's on sale for $1.99.
Lily Sanderson has a secret, and it's not that she has a huge crush on gorgeous swimming god Brody Bennett, who makes her heart beat flipper-fast. Unrequited love is hard enough when you're a normal teenage girl, but when you're half human, half mermaid like Lily, there's no such thing as a simple crush.
Lily's mermaid identity is a secret that can't get out, since she's not just any mermaid – she's a Thalassinian princess. When Lily found out three years ago that her mother was actually a human, she finally realized why she didn't feel quite at home in Thalassinia, and she's been living on land and going to Seaview high school ever since, hoping to find where she truly belongs.
Sure, land has its problems – like her obnoxious, biker boy neighbor Quince Fletcher – but it has that one major perk – Brody. The problem is, mermaids aren't really the casual dating type – when they "bond," it's for life. When Lily's attempt to win Brody's love leads to a tsunami-sized case of mistaken identity, she is in for a tidal wave of relationship drama, and she finds out, quick as a tailfin flick, that happily-ever-after never sails quite as smoothly as you planned.


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HochTief [4] claims that the steel construction designed by Herzon & de Meuron [3] will not be able to support the project's massive 3,800 tonne roof, which has recently been added to the crest of the building. But according to Arch Daily, an independent expert has verified the structural integrity of the architect's design, which means that construction should continue apace. Nothing has happened since November 2011.
The Elbphilharmonie concert hall [5] was originally approved by the Hamburg city parliaments with a total cost estimate of €241.3 million, of which €114.3 million is to be undertaken by the public sector. Since then, the public sector share has grown to €323 million along with the constant delay of the opening date. This is a lot for taxpayers to swallow for a building that won't be complete for at least another two years. Hamburg is planning to submit three law suits to Adamanta – HochTief's parent company [6].
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