We are happy to report that we have our first segment of our interview that Dr. Ghasem Shahbazi, the Director of Biological Engineering Program at NC A&T University was kind enough to do.

We really appreciate him taking time to talk to us and sharing is wealth of knowledge. There is some really compelling information and hope that you take time to watch.

Segment 2 will be up and running this weekend.

We have another busy week next week. We will divulge our exciting line-up tomorrow.

Remember, this is a grassroots blog and the way we succeed is by you putting our name out there. Hopefully, by offering compelling material, it will give you incentive to share this site with your friends.

Thank you!

We are still editing the video of Dr. Shahbazi...look for that to be up this weekend sometime. don't forget that tomorrow we talk to Billy Jones at Salvage America who has some really good information on America's newest green product being launched in Greensboro.

Also, next Tuesday morning we'll be talking with Joel Landau, who is partly responsible for the formation Greensboro's Community Sustainability Council (CSC), on which he served as Co-Chair. He is also the Manager of Deep Roots Market. We will be talking about The Eat Local Challenge proposed at last nights city council meeting.

Thanks for stopping by the blog! We hope you find it informative.

Thursday is the big Dump the Pump Nationwide celebration. We are all encouraged to take public transportation of some sort to help cut back emissions waste. PART is doing its...well, its part to make it easy for us. You can go to PART and print out passes to ride for free all day Thursday.

We just may plan an adventure aboard PART for a day.

Here is Brooke Kochanski, The Director of Communications and Media Coordinator for PART

We are really excited about a couple of things we are doing this week. Check back through the week as we interview some folks who are making a difference in the way we live.


First, we will talk with Dr. Shahbazi who is the Professor, Director of Bio Environmental Engineering at NC A&T University. We will be talking about what exactly bio energy and bio mass are, and how they affect us. We will have video footage of this later in the week.
Second, we told you about National Dump the Pump Day and we will be discussing what our area transportation systems are doing to help you not drive for the day. We will have a phone interview with a Brooke Kochanski , the Media Director from PART.


Finally, Thursday we will be venturing out to Salvage America to talk to Billy Jones who has some really good information on America's newest green product being launched in
Greensboro. Ever wonder where to bring those old batteries, cardboard and paper products, wood- pallets, scrap lumber, tree brush, plastics- HDPE, PVC, Stretch wraps, Shrink wraps, Hard plastics, styrofoam, concrete, Brick, Block, or Dirt? We have found the place for all of those items.

Have a great week and keep checking in for video and audio footage.

We hopped on over to the City of Greensboro's website and there was an interesting link that we hope everyone will take a moment to check out. Click HERE. This is a survey in which we can tell them what we would like to see in a new City Manager.

Obviously, we would love to see an eco-friendly City Manager take the seat. One who is willing to make our infrastructure one that is stepping outside the norm and creating and executing cutting edge ways to be "green".

The limits are what we set on ourselves. Some ideas:

• the city using energy-saving light bulbs in all of their buildings
• solar-powered panels on local bus stops to transform Greensboro roads into "Climate Streets" piloting clean technology.
• power hookups around the city to recharge electric cars
• focus on cutting Greensboro's emissions
• see about the Department of Public Works expanding the number of hybrid vehicles in its fleet and train workers to change driving habits so they conserve fuel.
• Bring in more LEED certified businesses

These are just some ideas. If you have any, please send us an email and we will happily post them here on our site.

Also, next week we have a really interesting interview slated for Tuesday morning. We will be talking with Dr. Ghasem Shahbazi who is a PH. D Director of the Biological Engineering Program at NC A&T University. We will be discussing biofuels, bioproducts, biomass, and renewable energy. It should be a great learning experience.

We will also let you know about national Dump the Pump Day and what our local transportation systems are doing to celebrate!! We will divulge tomorrow!

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Well, we did have the opportunity to talk with George Scheer, the Collabrative Director of Elsewhere - The Living Museum this week. It was a very good interview, but due to some technical snafu's, the video did not turn out to be usable. Bummer. We will say this. If you have not had the opportunity to go to Elsewhere on Elm St. in Downtown Greensboro, you really are missing out. The museum features all items that George's grandmother owned. Nothing is for sale. It's all about reusing the items that are in the space to form living art. Really an amazing concept. Urban Green got involved about a year ago, and the are doing some really neat things in the back alley. Every Saturday from 1-4 is Little Green Thumbs where you can bring your little ones and help plant flowers and veggies.
Go check them out this weekend! Tell them you read about it on our blog!!!!

These artists are doing the right things for our community!!

So, we decided to head downtown to Elsewhere to check out Urban Green. If you have children, this is an amazing concept. Actually, the whole concept of Elsewhere is fantastic. We will be interviewing George Scheer who is the Collaborative Director for Elsewhere Artists Collaborative this week. Look for video of the interview and footage of the space up on Friday. In the meantime here are some pics of the first Urban Green. It's amazing what you can plant flowers and veggies in!!!!