My Jetta TDI (Turbocharged Direct Injection) is having issues, in that the turbo, created by a turbocharger (pictured at right), is no longer working. The turbocharger takes compressed air and a lot of gas and, like the name says, injects a turbo boost into the engine, giving my TDI a nice little boost from about [...]
WNIT, our local PBS affiliate, organized Green Expo 2009 yesterday in South Bend. Lucid Energy was there with a RedPost/Sign at their booth showing off pictures of their water turbines:
Last week, I had the privilege (along with 900 other people) to hear Bill McKibben speak at Goshen College as part of the Yoder Public Affairs lecture series. For those of you in the green world, Bill’s a household name, for those of you not, you need to find out more about what he’s up [...]
Yesterday, I attended the Goshen Redevelopment Commission’s monthly meeting where they opened for the first time bids for the River Race project, an area of about 22 acres, right behind my house, that is currently a brownfield and abandoned warehouse but that Redevelopment would like to see developed. There was just one bid, from All [...]
Since I quoted an email yesterday, I’ll do so again today. Because we don’t have cameras tracking views on our RedPost network here in Goshen that advertises for upcoming community events, we don’t have empirical data to back up our claim that it’s awesome. What we do have is emails like the one below. A [...]
I wish we could get front page coverage just for being a cool upstart, but ’tis not the way the world works. RedPost/Recycle was front page, again, in another local newspaper, The Elkhart Truth. Unfortunately, I’m not sure we’ll be able to convince the county to fund our little goodwill effort. But if nothing else, [...]
…of the Goshen News. Not quite national media, but ya know, any press is good press, right? Not that we make any money on RedPost/Recycle. It’s more about our triple bottom line. Here’s the letter I sent to the Solid Waste District along with the updated, round 2 proposal. From my letter: Essentially, RedPost profits [...]
We went to the meeting this morning and, shocker of the meeting: paint is considered a Household Hazardous Waste in Elkhart County, e-waste is not. So paint is regulated and considered hazardous while the mercury, lead, cadmium, PCBs, PVC and other heavy metals in electronics are not hazardous, according to state law. Because of this, [...]
Tomorrow morning at 7:30 am Hannah and I go before the Elkhart County Solid Waste District Board. Sounds exciting, right? Actually, I get a somewhat weird pleasure out of public meetings and processes like these: I guess it’s that I like knowing the inner workings of decision making at all levels. And these boards, councils [...]
Thomas Friedman, The World is Flat author and NY Times columnist, just released his new book, Hot, Flat, and Crowded this week. Back in my consulting days, I used Friedman’s The World is Flat as the opener to my Elkhart County’s Innovation Landscape speaking tour engagements. Don’t get too excited, there were only 3 or [...]
