The Upper Arlington Community Improvement Corporation has a lovely new website that I think will be helpful both to attracting new business to our community as well as helping to make sense of many of the issues surrounding development here. The issue of development continues to be a contentious one and one that I believe [...]

My WOSU 820 commentary for today: Positive Change in a Weekend of Work Andrew Miller, WOSU Commentator COLUMBUS, OHIO (2008-08-18) Recently I paid an organization $40 to let me work my tail off for 54 hours straight. I know, I know - what kind of nut job did WOSU put on the air? The event was called Startup Weekend [...]

Book Review - 'Playing the Enemy - Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation,' by John Carlin - Review - NYTimes.com This book about Rugby and the end of aparthied in South Africa highlights the power of sport to bring nations together, and divide them apart. Much like my difficult feelings in regards to [...]

Canadians mine black gold When your lifestyle drives you to destroy more and more of the world around you don't you think it's time to make a change? President Bush seems to think this sort of dredging of the landscape for oil is a positive step and John McCain agrees - what about you? (tags: oil environment [...]

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Getting Americans to stop wasting energy is going to take a lot more media like this so spread the word: And then a nice piece about bicycling and energy savings:

Quick food based events chat. Well, sadly this has less to do with farms than I’d like but it’s relevant. COSI is hosting their Farm Days event which includes several large farm implements for kids to check out. I say get over there and have a look. Farmers markets are popping up all over the [...]

Rant On. The past week has been strong on political overtone for me and I wanted to share a few bits out here. Beware, this is a “crazy blogger” kind of rambling post. First I’d like to talk about the opening ceremony of the Olympics. Seeing the level of poverty, human rights abuse and pollution that has [...]

David Byrne, Cultural Omnivore, Raises Cycling Gear to an Art Form With Bike Racks - NYTimes.com Glad to see NYC moving forward with more and more cycling initiatives. This bike rack art business bums me out a bit since Columbus didn't follow through on the Gay Street installations as they had promoted through their design contest [...]

It’s been some time now since I’ve had a Friday music video list but after really loving hearing Herman Dune over the past month or two on WLUW.org I finally decided to go find some more of his stuff. Here’s a short list of really great and fun songs. Interestingly I tried to explain his [...]

Thanks to Tracy for posting this up to her site Tiny Mantras! Her husband Dan is the lead singer for a band called the Wahoo’s here in Columbus. Last weekend at the Justin Roberts concert we were talking and he told me about how Stephen Colbert had challenged Crosby, Stills & Nash to write a [...]

Seth's Blog: Complicit What is our part in the current state of marketing and business survival as ordinary individuals? This is a topic I've discussed on several occassions and I think Seth does a good job of wrapping it all together with this piece. (tags: marketing shopping consumerism)

This new documentary about an ingenious new sort of bike culture infiltrating Queens New York looks to be a fun ride. Click through the picture to see the trailer.

UA Residents use Natural Landscaping This is exactly the type of thing that should be promoted in UA and I think it is wonderful for these two neighbors to get credit for their efforts in this news story. Unfortunately so many residents of UA are like the third neighbor in this story who can't see how [...]

Last night Experience Columbus invited bloggers out to get a sneak peak of the new marketing campaign to draw in conventions, business travellers and weekenders within a 3 hour radius. The EC team has been working hard lately to reach out to the online community and this was another step in that direction. Over the [...]

WOSU: Record Breaking Crowd at Columbus Health Department Farmers' Market This is wonderful news about the health of wanting to eat healthy. Make good food available to people of all economic backgrounds and they'll eat it! (tags: food organic farmers economy WIC)

At lunch today I had a chance to step outside for a walk and a stop through the Pearl Alley Farmer’s Market. I love market days and I get them back to back on the weekends. Friday lunch at Pearl Alley and then Saturday morning I pick up our CSA share along with weekly groceries [...]

How American Youth Will Screw Viacom | Epicenter from Wired.com The key takeaway: Young people have left, and they're not coming back. (tags: technology, tv, youth, advertising)

Next up in my list of fantastic finds is this poem by my great grandmother, Martha Brown. I had the opportunity to meet my great grandmother and really enjoyed the visits to her apartment in Beaver Falls, PA. I believe I was about 10 years old when she passed away but I’m not certain. She [...]

Last weekend I took the family up to my parents house for a visit. While we were there my mom passed on a couple folders full of poetry and other ephemera from my Great Grandmother and my Grandfather. Among the lovely poems and notes I came across an article that sort of stunned me; it [...]