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"I don't think I ever wanted to be a writer," said June Jordan, by many accounts the most published African American writer in history. "I thought I was a poet, very early on. And I thought I probably stayed a poet. In other words, the writing I've done other than poetry came much later, and I've never thought about myself other than a poet really. No matter whether I was writing libretto or a political essay or even the one novel that I put out here…I was a poet doing these things. Rather than now I am a journalist or now I've become a librettist. No, I was just a poet doing these things."
In a history of marginalizing achievement by people of color, years of saying Langston Hughes or June Jordan are Great American "Black" Writers…rather than just Great AMERICAN writers…I commend Albuquerque and just want to acknowledge the moment in that context. Deeply honored to be able to tell my grandchildren that I wasn't just the 1st BLACK poet laureate of Albuquerque…I was the first poet laureate of Albuquerque.
And I'm fortunate, not because I am 33 years young and have been given this recognition of Laureate that some people write their entire lives for. Phillis Wheatley became the first African American poet published in 1767 at age 13 for her poem "On Messrs. Hussey and Coffin." That, is young. THAT's an accomplishment.
I am humbled, by Albuquerque's ability to see me as a musician, an actor, a scholar, a journalist, a playwright and an organizer, but at the and of the day, like June…I'm just a poet doing all these things. And that is what makes this particular appointment so special to me. The root of everything I do in this community grew from planting my shifty, shaking legs on stages at poetry slams. Sitting my butt in seats at readings by some of the best poets in the world, two whose company I share today (Mary Oishi and Damien Flores). I've been allowed to share the stage with some of the biggest New Mexico legacies, poets recognized by the literary canon and the ivory tower, and that opportunity, privilege, and mentorship has put me in the position to fill these shoes of unfathomable size.
I am blessed to be here with you this morning, while my youngest brother, Tyler, kicks off his third season as a professional soccer player in Los Angeles and my only son, Kaylem, kicks a soccer ball at his 3rd soccer game ever in the Northeast Heights. My middle brother, Rasheed, who shares my love of poetry and Kaylem. My surrogate blood brothers of dream and ink, Carlos Contreras and Colin Hazelbaker. And of course God and My parents Rick and Carlease, who are wholly responsible for what Albuquerque has had to put up with for the past seven years. To my other son, Tobey, who I've forced to sit through way too many a long poetry reading. And to the mother of my boys, Tracey, who literally gave me to Albuquerque.
This is not an acceptance speech, as much as it is a thank you. When my Fairy Slam Father, Don McIver presented me with the news. I wasn't my usual, annoyingly animated self. I was relieved. Joyed, like I had left my all on the track, given everything to the steeple chase and I was finally crossing the finish line. And though this appointment is just the beginning, the launch of an opportunity to serve. I had the ecstatic relief, like that of my Mother calling me and telling me that her plane has landed safely. The opportunity to deflate a bit. To bask in THIS moment of thanks that my City has extended me. All the time away from my son, my partner, my studies and myself, have not gone unnoticed. So I'm extremely humbled and thankful, for the "thank you."
But by accepting this position, I have a job to do. Sure, there's the ambassadorship of this position that tasks me with representing all you. From form poets to freestylists, first poem to fifth book, real loud to real quiet, real long to real short. White, Black, Brown, Red, Yellow, Other, LGBTQ, "I & U." And I do. That's the vow I exchange with you. However, my larger duty is less about OUR poetry, more about theirs…more about how we make poetry matter in the lives of people it doesn't already matter to. Because we already know that poetry doesn't just help us value each other and the world around us, it helps us value ourselves. And every person, every voice, in our city, is valuable. I think the Laureate's job is to remind us of that, and I can't do it alone…never could…so I'm going to need your help.
"Pour dire tout, il faudrait savoir toutes les langues," says Ranier Maria Rilke. To say everything, one would need to know every language. And I confess, I do not. My Spanish is horrible, and my English ain't too good neither. However, I will do my best to solicit poetry from every willing tongue. I'm less concerned with how the poetry sounds or looks or what it wins or loses, I'm more concerned with how it makes us feel. To me, good poetry makes us feel. Some think it foolish to think we can better our world with poetry, however when you consider poetry simply as a way of sharing each other. It doesn't seem too farfetched to believe that we can at least make our community better by knowing each other better. So Mr. Mayor, Centennial Poet, current and former Santa Fe laureate, esteemed selection committee, founding sponsors, family and friends. Thank you for recognizing that I've given up a lot to get here…and I accept, with no reservations, the challenge of giving up more. I love you Kaylem Mikah Bellamy and I love you Albuquerque.
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Watson was arrested at Germany's Frankfurt airport on May 13 on an arrest warrant issued by Costa Rica, which accuses him of endangering a fishing vessel off the coast of Guatemala in 2002.
He posted roughly $302,000 bail and was ordered to remain in Germany as it considered Costa Rica's extradition request, but he stopped reporting to authorities on July 22, a German court said. Watson left Germany and forfeited his bail, according to his Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, which isn't revealing his location.
"Following confirmation from German authorities that Paul Watson had failed to satisfy the bail conditions established by the German courts and had fled the country, Costa Rican authorities renewed their request" for Interpol to issue an international wanted notice for Watson, which Interpol did Tuesday, Interpol said.
Costa Rican authorities allege that Watson -- whose attempts to disrupt Japanese whalers at sea gained him fame on Animal Planet's "Whale Wars" TV show -- and his crew aboard Sea Shepherd's Ocean Warrior ship endangered a Costa Rican fishing vessel during a confrontation off Guatemala's coast.
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In the 2002 incident, according to Sea Shepherd ship operations officer Peter Hammarstedt, the Ocean Warrior found a Costa Rican crew killing sharks for their fins in Guatemalan waters. The Ocean Warrior initially had permission from Guatemalan authorities to stop it and tow the vessel into port, he said.
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BY ALICE GORMAN - Have you ever read a riveting book or seen a provocative film and wished you had the opportunity to sit down with the writer to discuss it? Through the winter season for many years, have you spotted a tall, handsome man you thought might be Tom McGuane and his beautiful wife Laurie in Hudson's or at the library and wanted to stop and talk about his writing? Just such a once in a lifetime opportunity is coming to Boca Grande.
On February 28 from 5 to 7 p.m. at the home of Jane and Bob Geniesse, Thomas McGuane, the award-winning author of novels, short stories, screen plays and non-fiction works, will spend an evening of literary conversation as a benefit for the Johann Fust Library Foundation. This event will be limited to the first 60 reservations. Admission is a tax-deductible donation of $125 per person for the Library's operating fund. The conversation will be preceded by a reception with wine and hors d'oeuvres.
As a reminder of Tom McGuane's extensive literary career, there are many pertinent facts and high praise from critics. Besides his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Michigan and Master of Fine Arts from Yale University, he was a Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford. His first novel "The Sporting Club" was published in 1969. His second "The Bushwhacked Piano" received the Rosenthal Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, an honor that began the consistent assent of his literary reputation. His third novel "Ninety-two in the Shade" set in Key West, Florida, where he lived for a time, was widely acclaimed and nominated for a National Book Award. "Panama", also set in Key West, led the Christian Science Monitor to describe his writing by saying: "Thomas McGuane is the pool shark of our prose. His sentences click with imperious precision."
In a review of his most recent novel, "Running on the Rim", The Washington Post wrote, "McGuane has a way of turning the improbabilities of his unlikely pilgrim's progress into strengths. With effortless accuracy he captures the peccadilloes of small-town life, wherein everyone knows too well everyone else's business."
His second collection of short stories, published in July 2006, "Gallatin Canyon", was featured on the cover of the New York Times Book Review. The effusive reviewer not only referred to Tom McGuane as "our poet-philosopher" and stated in his lengthy review that Tom is a writer who "knows something about writing…that…he uses words as access to the soul posited as a binding reality."
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Port Charlotte Florist and Teleflora donated the flowers and cards for the arrangements. Chick-fil-A donated cookies to each station, but they disappeared before we could get a picture. |
The sound marked the minute that American Airlines Flight 11 was flown into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in 2001.
While the world watched in horror and civilians streamed from the island of Manhattan many, many firefighters and EMTs ran into the chaos. Hundreds of them never came out.
Over the years, traditions have sprung up to remember those who were killed in the attacks, and this year a small group of Charlotte County businesses began a new one.
Each fire station that serves Charlotte County, including the Boca Grande Fire Department, received a floral tribute to those that gave their lives in service on that day. Twenty-one were created in all, and they were delivered on the 11th anniversary of the attacks.
The idea occured to Dennis Gill of Port Charlotte Florist almost two weeks ago. He talked to his wife Mary, who designed the arrangements. When the shop contacted Teleflora, that company was happy to donate the cards that went with each one.
Donna, Dennis and Mary's daughter, was talking about the project at church on Sunday, and was overheard by a local business owner. Ed Leslie, who owns the Port Charlotte Chick-fil-A francise, wanted to help. The company donated a selection of cookies for each station.
Each element of the arrangements has a meaning. The container is a model of an old-fashioned fire truck. Twin stalks of bird-of-paradise symbolize the two towers, a spiralingbranch represents the smoke from the attacks rising into the sky and red, white and blue flowers express the unity of the American people in the wake of the attacks.
Dave LeClerq of the Boca Grande Fire Department is married to Donna. He expressed the appreciation of the department for the gift.
"We would like to give a big thank you to everyone involved," said LeClerq. "The remembrance of the fallen is very important to us."
The flowers will be on display at the Fire Department Administration Center.


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COA in the News
College of the Atlantic and its alumni, faculty and students, are making news. Follow the links below to read more. You can also follow COA on Twitter and Facebook.
COA Names Alumnus President, 6/15/11
Southeast Green
Editor's note: We are sorry to see Darron Collins leave Atlanta. We know he will be a great influence at COA.
College of the Atlantic has named Darron Collins of the World Wildlife Fund as the school's next president. Collins, a 1992 graduate of the college, will be COA's first alumnus to hold that position. Read more >>
Bangor Daily News
Boston Globe
College of the Atlantic Student Turns Food Waste into Energy, 06/01/2011
Ten years ago sustainability-themed business courses weren't a part of the curricula at many universities and colleges in the U.S. But now, green MBAs and coursework in sustainable business are among the fastest-growing programs in undergraduate and graduate education. Here in Maine, some of the most innovative work and research in the field is taking place at the so-called Sustainable Business Hatchery at College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor. Jay Field paid a visit. Read more>>
Mona Lisa Comes to Life in Contrapposto, 5/20/11
Bangor Daily News
A strong salty breeze off the Atlantic entered the classroom at College of the Atlantic through an open door as Alicia Hynes rose from her seat to adjust the stance of Napoleon Bonaparte. The actor followed her direction, soaking in her expertise during rehearsal. After all, Hynes did write the play; she's directing it; she's even acting in it. Read more>>
Expedition Full of Surprises for College of the Atlantic Senior, 5/19/11
Bangor Daily News
When Becca began a study of historic native water routes of the Penobscot and Machias watershed — her senior project for College of the Atlantic — she didn't realize where it would lead. Read more>>
College of the Atlantic Senior Focuses on Acts of Kindness, 5/18/11
Bangor Daily News
A man gives a woman a jacket, a woman smiles at strangers, a student is handed cab fare home, a little boy speaks about how he refrained from laughing at a friend. The stories surrounding these and other individual acts of kindness are being chronicled in "The Kindness Project" an online audio series that Brooke Welty, a College of the Atlantic senior, has created to fulfill the final project for her college degree. Read more>
An Education in Green Living, March 2011
Down East
Environmental Studies 2.0
Maine has been a pioneer in environmental studies since the late 1960s; indeed, Bar Harbor's College of the Atlantic (COA) was founded in 1969 with a single major in "human ecology" . . .
If you want to understand how environmental education is evolving, consider COA's Sustainable Business Program - the first such program in the Northeast — which attracts students who want "to use business to change the world," says the program's founder and director, Professor Jay Friedlander. Read more>>
College of the Atlantic Gets $1 Million Gift, 1/14/11
Boston Globe
The College of the Atlantic announced Friday that the offering from
1984 graduate Jay McNally is the largest gift the college has received
from a former student. Read more>>
One-course town with a teaching model the world wants to copy 10/24/10
Times Higher Education
College of the Atlantic focuses on human ecology and lets students lead the way. Jon Marcus reports Read more>
STUDENTS in the News
College of the Atlantic Biology Student Wins Goldwater Scholarship 4/12/11
Bangor Daily News
College of the Atlantic junior Franklin Jacoby has received a prestigious Goldwater Scholarship. The award, from the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation, is given annually based on academic merit to second- and third-year college students planning careers in science and math. Read more>>
College of the Atlantic Interns Enhance Layers of Time Exhibit 4/18/11
Abbe Museum
The winter term for College of the Atlantic brought the Abbe Museum two talented interns, Rachel Heasly and Zach Whalen. Rachel worked with me in Education where she conducted a survey of similar sized and focused museums and compared the educational offerings and fees to what the Abbe has to offer. She then conducted a similar survey of Maine museums, so we could better understand where the Abbe stands in relation to other museums in the region. This was the first step in a multiple year process of evaluating, revising, and releasing a new series of programs in connection with the change to National Common Core education standards, which will be happening in Maine over the next several years. Read more>>
Fall River, New England
youth declare 'Clean Energy' future in Cancun 12/7/10
The Herald News
A Fall River student will be one of several youth climate activists
today (including several students from COA) to present a declaration for New England's clean energy future at
the United Nations talks in Mexico. Read more>
COA to rock Hamlet this weekend 11/11/10
Bangor Daily News
When Alicia Hynes thinks about directing Shakespeare, she thinks about
things other than traditional settings with Elizabethan costumes and
sets. The College of the Atlantic senior thinks about Bollywood, shadow
puppets and video projections, as in the case of the two other Bard
plays she's co-directed at COA with college alum Dan Mahler, The
Tempest and Macbeth. Read more>>
College of the Atlantic Halloween event features
insect cuisine 10/24/10
Bangor Daily News
Sometimes the creepy-crawlies can be crispy, if you can bring yourself
to bite a bug. Some students at COA were brave enough to do so. Read more>
Audience with Prince Charles, 6/24/10
Poteau Daily News
Natalie Barnett (right), granddaughter of Dottie Tucker of Poteau, met with England's Prince Charles while studying the ecology and historical economy of apples. Natalie is a student at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, and is studying abroad in England. Natalie is writing a blog while conducting her research. To find out more about the project go to nbarnett2.wordpress.com.Read more>>
Facades: a senior project written, directed, acted by Dan Mahler '10
Bangor Daily News, 5/15/10
"Dan Mahler came to College of the Atlantic as many students
do. He felt stifled and uninspired by the traditional structure of most
colleges and universities, yet he knew he was driven and capable, and
eager to learn and grow. COA was the perfect place for him." Read more»
Wasilla student receives Goldwater award, 4/13/10
Anchorage Daily News
Wasilla student receives Goldwater award
Colony High School 2007 graduate Kaija Klauder of Wasilla recently received a Goldwater Scholarship from the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation.Read more»
Nafisa Mohammadi '10 on Maine Public Radio, 3/23/10
Maine College Student Wins Grant For Dump Site Clean-up Near Kabul, Afghanistan Home
Nafisa Mohammadi '10 received a Kathryn W. Davis Projects for Peace
grant to clean up a dumpsite near her family home in Kabul, Afghanistan.
College senior gets traveling fellowship, 3/16/10
Worcester Telegram
COA senior Lauren Nutter has been named a Thomas J. Watson Fellow. She will travel around the world on a mission she calls "Voices for the Future: Youth, Passion and Sustainable Change," empowering youths between the ages of 15 and 24 to make a difference. Read more»
The Pulse Magazine, February 2010
Making a Difference Across the World
Lauren Nutter '10 of Uxbridge, Massachusetts, is featured for her work organizing youth to stem climate change. Says Lauren, "By sharing resources and knowledge, I will continue to engage on the international level and empower more youth from around the world to have their voices heard here." Read more»
COA Student Delegate, December 2009
Most COA students are part of COA's Copenhagen delegation, but student Neil Oculi joins the St. Lucia prime minister on his nation's seven-person delegation. Read more»
After Juan Carlos Soriano '11 gave the Youth Statement to the UNFCCC plenary, articles about his powerful speech appeared across the web. Here's a sample:
Grist.org, 12/19/09
"There will be no decisions about us, without us"
COPENHAGEN—The anger in Juan Carlos Soriano's voice was clear when he
rose to a podium in the Bella Center Friday afternoon. And it was easy
to understand why: the climate-treaty talks were (and still are at this
writing) stuck between competing draft texts, none of which offer plans
to keep global warming within safe scientific limits. Read more »
See Juan's interview on Tierramérica, December 2009 by the IPS Interpress Service.
El Comercio, 12/16/09
Cumbre del clima 2009: La juventud peruana se hace oír en Copenhagueby Erik Struyf Palacios
Copenhague-No forman parte de la delegación oficial peruana, pero su presencia en Copenhague, como los asuntos climáticos que aquí se discuten, podría rendir frutos en el mediano y largo plazo. Juan Carlos (23), Rosa (26) y Gino (19) son tres peruanos que forman parte de un grupo de 40 jóvenes latinoamericanos traídos a la capital danesa por una plataforma ambientalista. Read more about COA senior Juan Carlos Soriano in this article from the Lima, Peru daily, El Comercio»
Worcester Telegram & Gazette, 12/4/09
Loving the Earth: Locals heading to Denmark for climate conference
When world leaders meet at the 15th United Nations Climate Change Conference in Denmark next week, two local residents will be there to witness what one UN official calls a "historic turning point" in world climate-change negotiations.
...Meanwhile, 21-year-old Lauren Nutter of Uxbridge is traveling with a delegation from College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, hoping to give voice to the generation that will be most affected by decisions made regarding climate change. Read more»
Maine Public Radio, 12/01/09
Mainers Heading to Copenhagen to Lobby for Strong Climate Treaty
The Maine contingent to Copenhagen includes a college student, a member of the Maine Sierra Club, and a retired war veteran.
... Also traveling to Copenhagen is Brooke Welty, a Portland native and student at College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor. She'll be attending with 13 of her classmates, who've been preparing for the conference over the past year.
"There will be thousands of youth at the conference in Copenhagen who will be demanding a strong climate treaty," she says. "We will be meeting the first weekend as a Conference of the Youth, preparing statements, planning lobby visits with the senators that will be there, with negotiators." Listen»
Maine Public Radio, 11/26/09
COA Student Headed to Climate Change Summit
The December climate change conference in Copenhagen won't only feature heads of state and policy wonks. Students are also planning to go, Maine's College of the Atlantic is sending 13 students and two professors. The delegation includes third-year student Brooke Welty of Portland, who spoke with MPBN's Irwin Gratz. Listen»
Boston Globe, 11/20/09
COA students featured in Boston Globe article on New Englanders heading to Copenhagen for climate change talks:
"New England sending a crowd to climate talks"
"'Our future is being decided, our voices should be there,' said Uxbridge resident Lauren Nutter, 21, of College of the Atlantic. Nutter is also representing SustainUS, a youth-led sustainable development group." Read more»
St. Lucia Government Information Services, 7/13/09
Environmental project to stabilize river banks in Mabouya Valley
A major environmental project which will see the planting of over one thousand trees along the four major rivers in the Mabouya valley has commenced and is set to continue over the next few months.
One of the initiators of the programme Neil Oculi hails from the Dennery community. He says he has long been aware that the rivers in the Fond D'or watershed are experiencing environmental degradation and are in need of attention. Read more»
COA FACULTY & STAFF in the News
The Meaningful Art of an Octopus's Garden, 1/28/11
Bangor Daily News
"When I discovered Maine, I thought it was my Finland, with the fells,
the mountains and the birch trees. All compressed on this island, it's
like a pocket of Finland," said sculptor Melita Westerlund, who was born
and raised in the city of Helsinki in southern Finland and came to Bar
Harbor in 1983 with her family, intending to stay for a month. [Melita's
show is currently at the college's Blum Gallery.] Read more>
Edward 'Ed' McCormick Blair: 1915-2010 12/30/10
Chicago Tribune
Edward "Ed" McCormick Blair was a longtime businessman who served on the
boards of many companies and charities including College of the Atlantic. Read more>
MDI Lab Biologists Study Callahan Mine, 12/8/10
Bangor Daily News
Could high concentrations of copper at the Callahan mine site have changed the DNA of fish in the adjacent waters of Goose Cove? Chris Peterson from College of the Atlantic is just one of the researchers. Read more>
Bill Carpenter on Maine's first Earth Day, 4/21/10
Portland Press Herald
Bill Carpenter, a founding faculty member of the College of Atlantic, was teaching literature at the University of Chicago. College campuses were in turmoil from the Vietnam War protests, and Carpenter was looking forward to joining the new college in Bar Harbor. Read more»
Nancy Andrews' film On a Phantom Limb reviewed, 4/20/10
Baltimore City Paper
Transmodern Festival 2010: Transmodern Films
...Mixing archival footage, fake archival footage, drawing, images of nature, and animation, the short tells the story of a woman who has a surgery that allows her to become a bird. While the piece is thematically connected to work of Guy Maddin, Andrews' incorporation of her own body and drawings into the film makes it much more intimate than Maddin's overwrought films. The whimsical, uplifting final act in Phantom Limb, in which the operation is complete and Andrews becomes a bird, pulls together not only the short, but the entire night's programming. Andrews reminds you that there's nothing wrong with hybridity, particularly if it allows you to see new possibilities for experimental moving images. Read the article»
David Hales featured in major expose of Carbon Offsets, 4/20/10
Christian Science Monitor
Buying carbon offsets may ease eco-guilt but not global warming
David Hales, who has represented the US in international environmental negotiations and now is president of College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, headed a 2008 effort of college presidents to draw up guidelines for offset purchases by colleges and universities. ... "The market is dominated by junk," Mr. Hales says. At his own college, he set students to the project of picking offsets to counteract emissions, and they found the effort a quagmire. "It almost takes a full-time staff to determine exactly what you are getting...." Read more»
Bill Carpenter featured in "How a Poem Happens," 3/15/10
Brian Brodeur's blogspot features poets talking about their work, in this case COA faculty member Bill Carpenter speaks about the writing of his poem Rain. Read more»
Washington Post, 2/03/10
Planet Panel: It's time to pull the rope, not push it by David Hales, COA President
As long as the costs of carbon pollution are externalized—artificially kept out of free market dynamics—in the US market, we will be trying to strengthen our security and create jobs with two hands tied behind our backs. It is as simple as the difference between pulling a rope and trying to push one. Read more»
ALUMNI in the News
Nature's Pharmacy Grows at Garden in the Woods 5/24/11
The MetroWest Daily News
If General Ulysses S. Grant could visit Garden in the Woods today he
might salute former apprentice Anna Fialkoff, a graduate of College of
the Atlantic, for planting cranberries in the new Herb Garden. Read more>
Too much cheese in Twadleton :Children's author, illustrator shares his passion with St. Mary Academy students in Dover 3/22/11
Foster's Daily Democrat
As the citizens of Twaddleton became
buried in cheese, the pre-kindergarten students at St. Mary Academy
were a fit of giggles and laughter as local author Ryan Higgins, a
graduate of College of the Atlantic, read them his story. Read more>
Stephens College Guest Artist Brings Art of Contemporary African Dance 3/10/11
Dancers at Stephens College will present a contemporary piece that represents political violence in Africa during its spring concert that concludes this weekend. The piece, "Blanco Never Cried," was choreographed by Tawanda Chabikwa, who graduated from College of the Atlantic, and is a guest artist at Stephens for a month this semester. Read more>
Debut novel takes US by storm 1/12/11
The Zimbabwean
A young and talented Zimbabwean author, Tawanda Chabikwa, recently released his first novel, Boababs in Heaven, at the College of the Atlantic in Maine, USA. Read more>
Urban farming 2.0: No soil, no sun 12/23/10
CNN Money
Forget the conventional wisdom that says veggies must be grown on vast
farms in the Midwest. What if commercial-scale crops took root inside
cavernous city warehouses, without sunlight or soil? College of the
Atlantic helps fund such an operation. Read more>
Year of Giving 365 stories of personal giving, 7/12/10
Day 197 - Darron Collins '92
I have been following a blog that is written by Dr. Darron Collins, a scientist for the WWF and former resident of the Gulf region. Dr. Collins has been in the Gulf region after the oil spill supporting the work of some of the WWF's local partners who have actively involved in front-line efforts to protect and restore the wildlife and wildlife habitats in affected areas. Through his writing you meet some of the people directly affected by this catastrophe. Read more>
The opportunities during a visiting student's year at COA proves life- and world- changing for scientist Michael Glotzer ('84)
The Scientist.com, December 2009
Divide, Conquer by Karen Hopkin
Michael Glotzer's built-from-scratch biochemistry, and do-it-yourself genetics and microscopy, have revealed some of the secrets of cell division.
The search for something different landed him at the little-known College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, where, as a visiting student, Glotzer decided to work as an intern with his friend's father at the nearby Jackson Laboratory. Over the following year—eventually working full-time in the lab—Glotzer helped Les Kozak clone a gene that encodes a mitochondrial uncoupling protein in mouse brown fat. In the fall of 1984, he transferred to the University of California, Berkeley as a junior. Read more»
Top-10 Environmental Programs
Read about COA as #2 in the nation in numerous outlets:
The Daily Green
Mother Nature Network
Four Green Steps
College Hopefuls Look for Green Universities 4/20/11
USA Today
College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, includes the travel mileage of every prospective student who comes to visit as part of the carbon debt it must offset to remain carbon-neutral. Read more>
Green Jobs on College Campuses 4/5/11
With the emergence of the green movement, environmentally friendly products and services are expanding to college campuses. The College of the Atlantic in Maine made moves in 2010 to purchase most of its produce from a nearby organic farm. Hired students were sent to the farm to help create wind energy turbines to provide a majority of the farm's power. Look for these types of jobs at your college as solar panels and wind energy become more commonplace. Read more>
College Majors Go Green 2011
Careers and Colleges
A unique approach to sustainability can be found at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, where every student majors in human ecology. College spokeswoman Donna Gold says this area of study examines the relationship between people and the world around them. "You cannot do something without having an impact somewhere else," Gold says. "You sort of look at the three-dimensional picture of all aspects of life." Read more>
College of the Atlantic Celebrates Earth Day 4/24/11
Students at College of the Atlantic spent Saturday celebrating Earth Day with events across campus. Read more>
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Southwest Harbor, Maine 4/19/11
Coast Guard Compass
In early 2009, a team of concerned Coast Guard men and women set out on a "going green" journey after we realized the growing consumption of
electricity and fuel oil throughout Sector Field Office Southwest Harbor's housing
areas. We set out to identify solutions to reduce energy consumption
and use "greener-cleaner" sustainable sources of energy like solar,
wind, wood and water. College of the Atlantic students got to see these sustainable energy sources in action. Read more> Watch more>
College of the Atlantic Receives Grant for Sustainable Ventures
Incubator 11/24/10
Triple Pundit
The burgeoning trend of sustainable business programs being offered
across universities nationwide is a heartening indicator that
sustainability is now considered an absolutely integral part of standard
business practice, worthy of focused study. One of the most unique
undergraduate programs, offered at the College of the Atlantic in Maine,
just recently received a large grant to further develop its Sustainable
Ventures Incubator, a pilot program launched last year. According to a
FenceViewer news
article, the William Carey Foundation granted $100,000 to its
undergraduate Sustainable
Business program to fund student projects. Read more>
Huffington Post, 6/8/10
Which Impossible Dream? - Carl Pope
I'm in Bar Harbor, Maine, as the commencement speaker for the College
of the Atlantic. I'm struck by the seeming contradiction between the two
words we use for these events: graduation and commencement. Surely they
are opposites? It's clear what the COA Class of 2010 is graduating from
-- but what, precisely, are they commencing to? Life? Obviously not.
Adulthood?Read more>
Sierra Club vet challenges COA class, 6/5/10
Bangor Daily News
Graduating College of the Atlantic students were urged Saturday
afternoon during commencement exercises to learn from the mistakes
previous generations have made — especially when it comes to the
environment.Read more>
Coast Guard News, 05/07/10
Coast Guard visits college's 'green' housing
Coast Guard members from Sector Northern New England and Southwest Harbor and the commander of Coast Guard shore maintenance visited the College of the Atlantic's housing facilities, May 4, 2010, to collaborate on ideas for "greener" Coast Guard housing renovations in Southwest Harbor, Maine.Read more»
The Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media, 05/03/10
Science: Following 'Holy Grail' of Dow Jones Index
Various Climate Index Reporting Projects Under Way Among Scientists
Ocean Health Index Goes Beyond Climate Change
... A separate group of scientists affiliated with the New England Aquarium, Conservation International, and the National Geographic Society is working on an index of ocean health it expects to launch in 2011.
Steven Katona, Ph.D., a former president of the College of the Atlantic and an adjunct senior scientist at the New England Aquarium in Bar Harbor, Maine, is managing director of the effort.Read more»
Portland Press Herald, 03/15/10
College of the Atlantic Celebrates early Earth Day with "Acts of Green" on Saturday, April 17
Read about COA's upcoming annual Earth Day celebration, Saturday, April 17. Read more»
U.S. News & World Reports, February 2010
10 Colleges With Green Dorms
When undertaking a special on green dorms, U.S. News & World
Reports called COA up for advice on "how to green your dorm." The very
first image on this ten-college slide show is COA's Kathryn W. Davis Student Residence Village. Matt Shaw '11, is quoted in the text. Read more»
National Public Radio, 9/15/09
Here and Now: Sustainable Colleges
A recent survey by the Princeton Review shows that two-thirds of students applying to college say how green a school is plays a big part in whether they'll go there. We take a look at one college that was founded on the idea that green is good. The College of the Atlantic is located on Mount Desert Island in Maine, has fewer than 500 students and ranks fifth on Sierra Magazine's list of the "most eco-enlightened U.S. universities." Our guest is COA president, David Hales.Listen»
Newsweek, 8/12/09
Green Degrees in Bloom: The environment is hot by Sarah Kliff
When university presidents tout a commitment to "going green," they usually talk about sprucing up the physical campus—think energy-efficient dorms, locally grown fare in cafeterias and pledges to reduce carbon emissions. Now, academics want to devote attention to what's taught inside all those LEED-certified classrooms. Driven partially by market forces (the stimulus package alone devotes $30 billion to green energy) and partially by growing student concern over the environment, green majors have become a hot commodity on campus.
... For some schools, focusing on the environment is nothing new—it's integral to their mission. The College of the Atlantic has had exactly one major since its started offering classes in 1972: human ecology. Located on a 108-square-mile island off the coast of Maine, the school had students take on projects last year that varied from building an on-campus arboretum to working on an organic garden in Chile. In 2008 the college also added a program in Green and Socially Responsible Business. Students can still take courses in the ecology of the winter coastline (one offering from 2009), but now they can also take Business and Non-Profit Basics. "Students are really gravitating toward this," says Jay Friedlander, who directs the school's new business program. "They're seeing that if you want to effect change in the world, you can do so with a powerful business model that improves society." Read more»
United Nations Environment Programme, 7/23/09
Climate Neutrality with Honours: Universities Join UN-led Initiative to Combat Climate Change
Six universities from the US, UK, Spain and China have become the first academic institutions to come on board the Climate Neutral Network (CN Net) - an initiative led by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to promote global action to de-carbonize our economies and societies.
The first universities that have joined the Climate Neutral Network are: College of the Atlantic, Evergreen State College, Malaga University (Spain), Middlebury College, Tongji University, Shanghai (China), University of the West of England, Bristol (UK). Read more»
Allied Whale
Whale Research Website Celebrates One Million Hits 4/8/11
Bermuda Sun
Working with the Allied Whale group at the College of the Atlantic, in Bar Harbor, Maine, Mr. Stevenson and researchers have succeeded in identifying humpbacks making repeat journeys to Bermuda. Read more>
The 7th 207 Anniversary Show, we look back on our trip to Mount Dessert
Rock December 2010
Read more, read more and read more!
Adopt a whale 12/20/10
The Boston Globe
Whale, a research group at Maine's College of the Atlantic, is
offering a last-minute gift idea for those interested in conservation,
the ocean, and whales. For $30, people will receive an adoption packet
with photos of Oseana, information about the discovery, a waterproof
guide to whales, and a bumper sticker. The funds support research and
conservation efforts. Read more>
Scientists Search for Mysterious Right Whale Breeding Ground 11/16/10
The North
Atlantic right whale is one of the most endangered large whale
species, with only about 425-450 remaining worldwide. Like other large
baleen whales, the right whale spends its summers feeding in cold
waters, and at least some of the whales spend their winters breeding in
warm waters off the southeastern U.S. Researchers from Allied Whale and others are going out to investigate those breeding spots. Read more>
Should We Always Save a Stranded Seal?
OnEarth Magazine, 6/17/10
The staff and volunteers of Allied Whale, a marine mammal research group based in Bar Harbor, Maine, have been studying and promoting the conservation of cetaceans and seals since 1972. It's one of several groups along the Northeast coast "deputized" by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to respond to animal strandings. Despite their intense dedication to helping marine mammals, however, these and other recovery professionals are starting to ask themselves whether saving a stranded seal pup is always the right decision. Read more>
Bangor Daily News, 4/19/10
Stranding conference planned in Bar Harbor
BAR HARBOR, Maine - Environmentalists, academics and members of the general public who want to learn more about marine mammals and how to respond to entanglements and strandings will get the opportunity at a regional conference scheduled for early May. Read more»
Working Waterfront, 1/29/10
Sean Todd, director of Allied Whale who holds the Steven K. Katona Chair in Marine Sciences, is studying the potential impact of windpower on marine mammals. He comments his work and the noise of the sea in the article "Fathoming: What are the marine impacts of offshore wind turbines?" by Dr. Heather Deese and Catherine Schmitt
And what do the researchers and their students hear? "It's actually a fairly noisy environment," said Todd. The listening devices pick up everything from boat traffic to fish to whale vocalizations to the Rice Krispie-like crackling of oxygen escaping from the cells of seaweed. "There is nothing silent about the sea," said Todd. Read more»
College of the Atlantic gets anonymous $2M gift 12/6/10
Bangor Daily News
Christmas has come a little early this year for College of the Atlantic
as an anonymous donor has given $2 million to the small liberal arts
college's endowment, college officials announced Monday. Read more>
Huffington Post: The Top Non-Traditional Colleges, 5/24/10
COA called #2 in the nation!Read more>
Heartland Trail
COA's museums - George B. Dorr Museum of Natural History and Bar Harbor Whale Museum listed as among top-ten in state.
Earth Day celebrated on MDI, 4/17/10
Bangor Daily News
BAR HARBOR, Maine - Predicted rain never materialized Saturday, which helped bring out hundreds of people to College of the Atlantic's annual Earth Day celebration.
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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
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- d e v a n said...
It's been over 2 years since i went out of town without a child. Last year I did go away for one night with just the baby though.
Glad you had a good trip! - June 1, 2011 at 9:06 AM
- ~she~ said...
I have never traveled completely alone. Never.
Hubby and I got away alone a couple weeks ago for our anniversary. That was dreamy! - June 1, 2011 at 10:51 AM
- Erica said...
Blathering! Woot! You have to force yourself to go away but it's so worth it.
- June 1, 2011 at 12:44 PM
- clueless but hopeful mama said...
Good for you for taking some time for yourself. So important!
It's been about a year and a half since I last got out of town by myself (for a friend's wedding). It's so good to hear your own thoughts and follow your own whims and rhythms. What a gift!
(and missing the puke-fest is a lucky stroke too! :-) ) - June 1, 2011 at 2:16 PM
- Sarah said...
I actually just went out of town last weekend, for a wedding. It was awesome, but apparently baby didn't eat well without me. :(
- June 1, 2011 at 3:27 PM
- k said...
It's good to be missed.
- June 1, 2011 at 3:43 PM
- Jessica said...
Yay for the Blathering! I won't be going alone - I'm bringing my not-yet-born nursing infant (if he IS nursing), but its still going to be awesome!
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Introducing the Team Umizoomi Come & Get Us Counting Car, new for Fall 2012! Includes motorized Umicar with Milli and Geo, and an easy-to-use Umi Phone remote control with 3 buttons. Press the center button to call the Umi Car and it magically drives to straight to you, just like on the show! Press the forward arrow button and the Umicar moves and counts forwards. Press the reverse button and the Umicar spins backwards and counts backwards. Team Umizoomi Come & Get Us Counting Car teaches numbers and forwards and backwards counting.Math is everywhere, so every episode of Team Umizoomi on Nickelodeon is filled with everyday math problems that kids can solve with a little help from Milli, Geo, and Bot. Team Umizoomi was designed to help kids develop their skills and to build their confidence in problem solving and important early-math concepts like counting, measuring, comparison, patterns and shapes.
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This car is really cute and is actually a but larger than I anticipated, which is not a bad thing! We bought it for our neice, but her two older brothers also LOVE it!
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This is a Christmas gift for my 2-year old daughter so we haven't had a chance to play with it yet. She loves Team Umizoomi, though. Just be aware that there's a similar item on the shelf, but it's not remote control.
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Trends and Interests come from places you might not expect, are you listening?
If you are in any business you should be listening, but if you are in the restaurant business listening is just the beginning. Enjoy!
About Paul Barron
Since founding trend setting websites Fastcasual.com and QSRweb.com in the mid 90's my passion for media and technology and how it intersects with business has been a vision that has finally come to reality. Business today must address the sweeping changes that are upon us, it's not just about social media but instead about the transformation of how business will do everything from marketing to customer service to research. I have spent the last 18 years building successful online businesses, building creative content networks, global events and even uncovering emerging trends that have turned into a 20 billion business segment. My passion is about results and how we can use these new age techniques to move our business into the future.
If you are in any business you should be listening, but if you are in the restaurant business listening is just the beginning. Enjoy!
When Nokia's CEO said our "platform is burning", he meant that they are in trouble and may have to take a leap into some uncertain waters. You might wonder how a leader like Nokia could even worry of such things, right? Maybe we should ask that to the publishing business, the travel industry, the mighty Microsoft and even the weary and giant Google. Business is on a new path of velocity and understanding the changes is what will make us successful, not a "wait and see" attitude.
So when I say "The Restaurant Industry is Burning", I mean we are faced with a whole new set of challenges as we come out of this recession. For those of you that have not secured talent, locations and digital strategies while all of that was cheap and easily accessible, you're ship is on fire and there are just a few ways to put it out! The restaurant industry saw a minor jump in overall sales at just 1.1% after three years of declining sales. The future is still focused on building and maintaining sales volume since that is the answer to growth right now. But as I see it, we are still faced with some major issues in our resurrection of a 3-5% sales growth annually.
Choice is still one of our biggest nemesis, consumers have it now like never before. With more than 3,000 multi-unit concepts in the U.S. and close to a million total restaurants, consumers get to pick from an array of segment competitors and sometimes many in the same menu category. Do we just have too many restaurants? In some places the answer is yes, but there are still tons of highly underserved markets that can add great value to our business. The challenge is finding them before the onslaught of competition hits em' too! The beauty of this is we have an all-new way of identifying such hot spots with social and location-based digital CRM.
The Talent Zoo is back and they are restless! As an industry, we face one of what I believe to be our biggest challenges ever, keeping and attracting the best minds we can find. The teams inside our corporate offices need to be better. We face tremendous technology leaps in the coming years and a whole new way to reach out to customers will be our biggest concern.
The decade of the door hanger has officially ended, the yellow pages are extinct and the printing of promotion materials is dropping so fast the rain forest may yet get a reprieve after all. The simple truth is that smart phones, social media and the connected consumer is the real answer for our future and how to spread the word. An all-new consumer science is emerging in the restaurant industry. It's one that needs to have real science applied to it to enable us grow our business.
The most influential fast casual restaurants
Recently we tracked the most influential restaurants in America and broke it down by segment - Casual, Fast Casual and QSR. The results were somewhat expected at the top where millions are being spent to drive the digital brand. But the next layer was a whole new set of players. These are players that get it and are making the most of this new found way to reach out to consumers and make them raving fans.
The natural was Starbucks as the most influential brand. We studied a variety of layers of the social web; how they engaged, how their consumers engaged with them and how influential their consumers are. It is how the Social Ripple effect works in social media. I believe the difference is that if you place the engagement in the right position, strategically; the impact can be amazing for your business.
Jimmy John's was number two with Genghis Grill and Coffee Bean trailing very tightly at number three and four. The amazing part here was a small chain the size of Naked Pizza took the number five spot in our Fast Casual segment leaders.
This is our future. The great part is that we at least know it. The recent NRA 2011 Forecast suggested that social media and digital brand development would play a big part in our business growth over the next few years. So the big question is what can we do to get there?
Here are just a few steps to take in your new digital direction.
1) Get a real digital strategy in place with talent that can help make a difference. This is not an intern handling your twitter account. It requires strategy and tactics with a full understanding, not only of the technology we are using, but the business impact it can have as well.
2) Get positioned in mobile quickly. This is the reality of how consumers will engage with you for location, referral, menu, ordering, loyalty and best of all, repeat customers WORD OF MOUTH.
3) Social CRM is the next phase – work fast on targeted audience acquisition. That's what we here at DigitalCoCo do best. Just like building your email list is a priority, social CRM is one that you must have as well.
4) Start a year-round digital campaign development that can be integrated into all of your marketing.
5) Bring in your franchise or management teams and educate them so they understand the impact and can help with idea generation. The marketing message has shifted and you will have to teach your team how to talk the new social language. The game truly has changed.
6) Get digital quick; every major platform should have your brand represented.
7) Build your digital content plan. You have to become a publisher instead of a marketer. In the past, you published marketing material like mad right? Now you will need to shift to real content that makes sense to your customers. The noise is so great that they are no longer listening to your marketing messages.
8) Analyze your digital competition. With open access you can see your entire competitor's plans being executed right in front of you. The successes and failures are transparent as well, but the value is that with the right strategy and tools you can start to evaluate trends. These trends will help you big time!
9) Work on many fronts at once. This will require some heavy lifting and shifting of marketing, operations and even HR budgets but you must shift your plan into all aspects of your business. Get your suppliers involved. If they don't have a digital and social strategy it's time to change suppliers.
10) Listen. It is a simple tip but in reality it's the hardest to do. We still think we know our business best and we do but we must listen to our guests and our staff. Social media and digital branding is not just an outward persona. It is a revitalization of your entire organization. Analyze your customer's tweets, posts and videos. Empower your employees because if you don't someone else will.
(Full Disclosure - Genghis Grill and Camille's Sidewalk Cafe, which are both in the top list, are partners with our digital branding group, DigitalCoCo.)
With Mashable releasing a new way to interact with so much news and information on the topic of social media it made me think. Is that not what the restaurant business is facing? We have so many sites that rate, review and list us but what's more important is that we have hundreds of millions of consumers that visit us each year. That is a major opportunity! There really is no one place in which all this great info about us is curated though no place where we could see all the tweets, facebook posts, yelp reviews, YouTube videos in one place that is targeted by geo-location.
It requires us to look at 8-10 platforms for every project we delve into, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Yelp, Foursquare, Gowalla, YouTube, Vimeo, Foodspotting, Quara, Instagram, Zagat, Open Table and many more. All drive consumer interaction but with so much going on in the restaurant business every day and so much being shared there has to be a place where we could consolidate all that amazing information to actionable things we can do to improve our business and spread the word at the same time?
Hmm, thinking more about this, there is not one place. As big as social media is I find myself gravitating toward Mashable but they are right there is so much out there the maze of info really clouds my day. Though I do think large content outweighs vertical content the need to narrow that content is equally important.
Maybe the time has come where there is enough info from the consumer crowd where we could get centralized information on our brands, our competitors or even our competitive sectors like @wholefoods whom competes with all upscale restaurants and Fast Casuals for consumer dollars.
So I am off on testing a variety of methods to help curate just a small amount of our research information. First is a list that curates the best of the fast casual restaurant brands. This list curates content from these great brands and concepts to help the restaurant industry get a better look at what is happening in fast casual faster and right from the mouth of the brand. Better yet you might like to subscribe to this Paper.li on the same amazing info. I could see a similar plan to curate great content from consumers as well for brands to learn more not only about what's happening in their business but their competitive business as well.
I will share more on how we are curating consumer data that can drive big-time changes in brand development for the restaurant industry. I would like to know from you though – what do you see as most important to your business if you could find out specific data in your area of business? Competitive data, interest graphs, demographics?
Great insights from and eleven year old on how our food system is working or should I say not working. More and more I see this becoming top of mind especially with the recent release of top trends from the NRA.
Fact is that awareness is rising and I could see a time where social media will really begin to impact this area of the restaurant business. Love to get your feedback on how you think that could happen.
Here is to passion and inspiration from an unusual place, an eleven year old!
We all ask the killer question of how do we scale ourselves? The reality, regardless of what we think, is that we can't. Unless of course that you can take your brand, business or restaurant and transcend it beyond the "person or unique entity" that it has become.
For me transcending my personal brand means many things. I am often known and referred to as the father of Fast Casual, the restaurant segment that is now changing the landscape of operations, and consumer choice. My quest though has always been about how can I become a bigger brand? But really my question should be how can my Vision, Ideas, Values and Inspiration (VIVI) become a bigger brand. After all Paul Barron is just a guy, but my VIVI is something that can do and be so much more.
Your business has a VIVI, and the real question is how do you transcend the amazing VIVI you have right now into something that is bigger and could live forever?
Martha Stewart has been able to do this. Now her expanding array of goods graces the shelves at Macy's and The Home Depot, not to mention PetSmart, Michaels and possibly someday a cosmetics counter near you. (See this post on brand transcending) Chris Brogan has been able to transcend his brand from an early podcaster and marketing geek, as he has now joined the ranks of the new media elite, a global speaker, a sought after consultant and master of business at New Media Marketing Labs. I'm sure the plans of Chris are well past the days of the Boston Podcamp where I first met him. Gary Vaynerchuk transcended his brand into multiple websites in WinelibraryTV, Cinderella Wine, a major book deal, TV appearances across the globe and an inspiration to millions. All from a small wine shop in NYC.
You see VIVI-- is what drives people to help you, to join you in your quest but best of all it lives on forever long after you are gone. VIVI can continue to inspire others in building your vision of your brand, and that is what you have to focus on to transcend your brand beyond you. You will always be remembered for getting it going, but ask yourself is that your legacy for your brand, or do you have something bigger in mind?
This week I will make some big announcements about how I will be transcending my brand beyond Fastcasual.com and into an era where my (VIVI) Vision, Ideas, Vales & Inspiration can start to affect the restaurant industry in ways I have only imagined. Today I turn that imagination into reality.
So ask yourself what's your VIVI?
Some great comments are shared at the People Report Summer Camp Conference. I caught a few people on cam to talk about leading the restaurant business out of the old and into the new. It's time we take inventory on how we really do business and ask the hard questions. What can we do to change the consumers point of view and our own teams point of view.
We have a great opportunity as we forge into a new era in the restaurant business but it will take some guts, some risks and some luck. You know the stuff your built your business with in the first place . . Remember?
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