Shawna Coronado’s recent post on Gardner Rant points out how green lawns can be put to use as food producing gardens . Not only for the owners consumption, but importantly to help feed the hungry…

Kim Deal can see the world in a cold clarity that would make most mad; a ramble pile, a mess, a happenstance, and thrives amidst the foibles by generating her own upward forward lift thrust. Bulldozing through the trials there’s no BS, no plastic pleasantries, and in the rude truth of her songs…

At Wise Elephant it’s part of my job to listen to small businesses, sole proprietors, and creative professionals discuss their dreams, plans and goals.

I’ve been a PJ and John Parish fan since the onset. As a musician I revered John Parish’s songwriting and playing style.

It finally happened, I was waiting for this day. I called a contact at an Ad Agency and their voicemail expressed they prefer to receive an email with the reason for the call in the subject line of the email. Then they would decide whether to call the emailer back. Email as the filter for [...]

There have been a lot of editorials, online, tv, and print, on the success of Obama’s usage of social media to build momentum, raise awareness, raise money…

Santo Matarazzo was a people person. Often outside his brownstone, leaning against his gate up the block from the local bakery, speaking to neighbors as they passed. If you were lucky, or if he caught the spark in your eye, he’d invite you in, or more like through his house, to his backyard sculpture studio [...]

Attending the National Renewable Energy Marketing Conference in Denver CO and learning just how complex the issue is. With the involvement of legislation, corporate utility companies, upstart alternative energy providers and environmental action leagues, there is definitely no easy fix here. It is going to take the public getting involved in local legislation and making [...]

This past spring I put together this presentation for student of the BYU Illustration department who were visiting NYC in order to get their feet wet and to meet some pros in the field…

Nestled in this NYTimes piece on ethanol and the higher cost of grains:

“But food producers said that high prices for feed had already increased the price of meat, and that they were cutting the size of herds and flocks, meaning that supplies would soon be lower, and prices higher.”