Radiotimes' description: "This is another worthy wordy offering featuring the great vox and words of Colin Mutchler. Kept the arrangement to a minimum to emphasise the words just added some harmony and a bit of Duane Eddyish guitar to break it up a bit"

It reminds me about the value of sharing via the internet. If when you think a piece of culture or expression has run it's course, someone picks it up and makes something even better with it. Thanks radiotimes!

I think my favorites are:

Positive Vision:

Targeted at Republicans:

My housemate Seth actually submitted one of the selected ideas, which is Stuffshare, Freecycle meets Street Car . The idea that actually seems the most similar to my own vision for Open Green is Barcode Wikipedia:

A site for storing user-generated information – such as carbon footprint, manufacturing conditions and reviews - against a product, identified by its barcode number.

Even though I'm a bit disappointed to not have submitted an idea to the perfect event for my converging interests (too much of my time focused on my job), it'll be cool to attend the final session tomorrow afternoon.

Read the recent comments from Youtube below.

brendabn87 (2 hours ago)
He is the first 21st century politician. It feels like fate has sent us this man to balance out the folly of the last 8 years -- and sound the death knell of the neo-conservative hoax.

DEEPSERIW
This man is Great, like him or hate him, he's man of conviction. This speech isn't from a man that just wants to be President, but a man that wants a America for Mankind, and a better future for all.

labohemianartist (2 hours ago)
did he write this? beautiful

Boomdog14 (2 hours ago)
This speech will be added to high school curricula for generations to come.

sgilman (2 hours ago)
He penned the entire speech.

This past week, there was one that I thought deserved special mention, partly because I have a "sexuality" category on this blog but very little content to speak of.

From thislife.org:

Stories of people getting more testosterone and coming to regret it. And of people losing it and coming to appreciate life without it. The pros and cons of the hormone of desire.

Check out This American Life's "Testosterone"

But more so because the quality and mood the conversation seems to have shifted to a less productive and inspiring one. Check out this article on why it's getting dangerous for the Democrats.

Remember, the way that we move forward is that we actually have to proactively move our political culture forward. This week it seems like Barack Obama's campaign may have taken the bait (or at least responded to what seemed like effective attacks from the Clinton camp) and begun attacking Hillary.

Barack: this is NOT the way you are going to win the presidency. The way you will win the presidency is by continuing to not only talk about a new kind of politics, but by being a new kind of politics. Seriously, this is about right now. Today. This week. And your campaign needs to take a deep breath and revisit what's important for the country and its people. Start the constructive, positive and bridge building conversation again.

After getting an email about their 2008 Gratitude Grant, I found their Youtube channel which currently is highlighting a series of videos titled the "Story of Stuff," a straightforward look at the linear chain that is pretty much how things have been made over the last few hundred years. The next step of course is to more clearly tell the stories of (and financially support) the few innovators which are starting to use the new proposed renewable system.

After listening to Freddie's recordings on his MySpace page I'd say he's a bit better live, with great rhythm and presence. Check out the video below which I guess is part of a larger series of Black Cab Sessions live from taxi's in London.

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Among other things, the conversation includes his professional experience with one of the buildings in Cascadia's Living Building Challenge, his personal challenges of lenolium floors in his "green" house, and his interestingly cautionary views on the green product design craze.

He also mentioned the Kill-a-Watt, which is a simple product that measures how much energy your appliances are costing (you might be surprised).

On a morning flight from Sunday JFK, I used my remaining change for a purchase to pass the time reading. In the hour that followed on the tarmac reading about 8 articles of interpretation of the current American moment, I was reminded how much I actually miss the Sunday New York Times.

Scanning through a lot of wasted trees and Ad space, the images and words I chose for my attention sparked and engaged my mind in a way that hasn't been happening in my life with the London paper or my cheap dates with the Financial Times, the Guardian, or even my mixed feeds from Google Reader.

For all my conviction about the digital now, the keyboarded screens of too many long tail dreams just can't compete with the foldable mix of professional text, the images expressed of what's fit to print.

I read of a green surfing songwriter, who recorded his new album from his solar California studio, with some lyrical samples that fit the emerging millenial mood, & the real Vince Vaughn, moving beyond his same old identity, with a group of comedians across middle America getting deep with the camera turned.

I read of an early 30s New Yorker whose views on the evolution of Manhattan from bohemian to museum reminded me of my last eight years of witness to the gentrification of Fort Greene. It also reminded me of the conversation in Helsinki last weekend in which an active filmmaker from Berlin claimed that his city is surprisingly beating out NY and London in attracting the creative global next wave. The many remaining cycles of affordable, hip neighborhoods reminds me of an imaginary bohemian New York in the 70s and 80s.

His next film may be looking into something we've all been facing but have yet to fully reflect, the hyper acceloration of a culture of next. In my own time starved urban life, and my podmixed commute, it's impossible to read the full newspaper through. Which is why my comfort in the format of the NY Times enables a scan for the words that will most add the jazz to a mind a bit numb, a tank empty of gas.

And then I opened up my favorite section of all, the best printed mix of news from the week and opinion from a few, yes the Week in Review. On the Super Bowl Sunday before the Super Tuesday, the articles I chose focused on the reality of where we're about to head as a politics. With John McCain most likely becoming the Republican nominee, with the rest of us choose a strong combative Democrat or a independent leader from the next wave.

For me it's a choice between a 2008 general election with the same old destructive conversations from the last 20 years, resulting in election of John McCain as president, or a conversation for a new millenium, in which we are redefining what it means to be a Republican, a Democrat, and even an American.

In an McCain vs. Clinton election, we will face another boring year of Clinton hating, with an inevitable rise of fighting against John McCain's sanity. And some of the energized young people and independents who have begun participating in democracy will either go back to watching youtube or may even begin lean toward the more independent McCain.

However, in a McCain vs. Obama election, while we will definitely have to face some of our country's racial demons, the most diverse generation ever will shape a new conversation for productive dialogue and personal responsibility in moving the country forward. As Kristof noted, a surprising number of evangelical Christians from across traditional red states may also join with Obama as many are finally following through on the things that Jesus actually would be focusing on if he were alive (anti-poverty, AIDS, climate change).

This potential new coalition between the secular progressive left and the evangelic conservative right would be an historic shift towards an alliance of free thinkers from all faiths (including atheism) who focus on being people who making a difference in the world more than arguing who is right and wrong in conversations about god.

The second potential new coalition is between secular progressives and libertarians who are standing for transparency and open-ness in government and increased participation in democracy. The rise of Ron Paul represents a relatively small but active and growing number of the American population that want to reform our government to maximize choice and participation for its citizens. This another important and energized constituency that would most likely go to McCain, Obama could potentially tap into, and would definitely not be attracted to Clinton.

Thanks to the Sunday New York Times for the initial reading and for some of energy that feeds my mind. Now I'm back to London for my podmixed cycling commute tomorrow morning.

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It highlights one of the key reasons why I support Barack Obama as the nominee and the next president: the national political conversation will be different. We can't promise that the 'new kind of politics' that Obama promotes will be realized 100%, but it will surely be more constructive and less divisive than another "Republicans hating on the Clintons" election.

It's 2008, the first real election in this new century, and while it may be true that we don't yet know as many specifics about what the Obama administration is going to on day 1, we still have 11 months from now when he and his cabinet take office. And we can be sure that the conversation, both within the US and internationally, will be transformed.

I am writing from Helsinki, Finland, and was talking with a Nigerian taxi driver the other night and he spoke about how an Obama victory would change the way that people across the world think about black people because we would all be watching the global conversation with new eyes and new ears.

I know that there is a risk, but with another Clinton in the white house, it will be the same old conversation that turns off most of the United States population (especially all of us young people) and most of the world.