October 5, 2008
Politics of Participation - with Robert Stromberg
The second 'active conversation' of the 2nd season of the activefree podcast is with another college friend Robert Stromberg, who I knew as a media activist man of action back during college at Duke and more recently visited in Knoxville, TN during my Free Culture tour in 2005.
Our phone conversation, recorded back July through FreeConference.com (unfortunately the quality of the audio is less than ideal), covers some of his background working with the Barack Obama campaign on the ground in North Carolina, and why he thinks that the approach of the campaign, if successful, may result in more long term participation than previous campaigns.
Photograph "Thinking Obama" thanks to cfrye6395 via Creative Commons Search.
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February 17, 2008
Living Buildings & Green Realities with Ethan Timm (Updated)
The first 'active conversation' of the 2nd season of the activefree podcast is with college friend Ethan Timm, an Architectural Designer for SERA Architects in Portland, Oregon.
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).
Note: This version has updated audio which is a much better listening experience than the one uploaded last week.
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February 5, 2008
Open Green Intro v0.5
A draft presentation of "OpenGreen," a new project of Colin Mutchler and activefreemedia that seeks to demonstrate the value of open value chains for inspiring consumer behavior and demand toward a green culture and responsible econonomy.
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January 8, 2007
Ebb & Flow's "The Great Turning" Video
An interesting holiday produced video by the site Ebb & Flow called The Great Turning. The video uses the CCmixter song "Mind Field" by DJ Blue, which is one of the now over 20 remixes of the 1999 spoken word piece A New System.
Check out the full credits for the video on Kent and Jen's Ebb & Flow blog.
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2006 Year in Ideas - NY Times Magazine
In December, I picked up the cover of the Year in Ideas from the New York Times Magazine, and thought that the ideas seemed interesting so I read them over some beats as a spoken word piece and shared it on CCmixter. I hope you enjoy Teru's version of 2006 Year in Ideas, that also includes samples from the artists below.
- Sacrifice my Love by: sallee
- 2006 Year in Ideas - NY Times Magazine by: Colin Mutchler
- sax samples from vroum,vroum by: stefsax
- MARKET HACKER by: Ms.Muthaphukkin Vybe
-Fly drums by: MC Jack in the Box
Check out other versions at my ccmixter page.
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