Pecha Kucha Night Presenters July 2009
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Nathan Hall
Rebuilding Appalachia
Devising a post-coal sustainable economy in Eastern KY: Turning waste into energy while rebuilding the lands devastated by mountaintop removal mining.
Geoffrey Neal
“didn’t he, like, used to be an artist or something?”
being a retrospective of the “artist’s” works, real and imagined, from 1992 to the present, with emphasis on story, decay and leftover subtitles
Ben Scofield
How The Geeks Inherited the Earth
I’m a geek. Chances are, you’re a geek, too – but that identification doesn’t mean the same thing it did in high school. Over the past ten or fifteen years, geeks have become the mainstream, and there are a couple of very good reasons behind that change. In this set of twenty slides, we’ll look at one aspect of that shift, with the rise of geekification of entertainment.
Kim Greene
Art Director, Bright Horse Farm and Art Studio
We are your best resource for creative learning in a farm setting!
John Bonitz
How Chatham County could generate utility-scale renewable electricity.
Ian Thomas & Jaime Chandra Kozlowski
Cohousing – creating community and social wealth
Introducing the efforts of Pittsboro Cohousing and our experience at Island Cohousing in Martha’s Vineyard.
Abby Pons of Capella Financial
Back to Cash
Remember before we had debit cards? Few people do! There are lots of reasons why going back to a cash lifestyle is a healthy financial choice for most households. I’ll make the case for cash and explain why I think even those of us that consider ourselves financially savvy can make steps toward sustainable personal finance by paying for purchases in cash.
BJ Lawson
President, PLENTY Currency Cooperative Board of Trustees
PLENTY by Number
Progress report on the successful revitalization of the PLENTY and a look at what is possible
