Image Credit Build it Green Greene and Greene’s Darling House in Claremont, California is a recognized historic home that was truly green in the way houses are supposed to be. Jeff Book writes in the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s journal Preservation: Their designs combined simplicity and refinement, celebrating natural materials and motifs while exhibiting an intimate awareness of the landscape. Outstretched ea… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Deep within the heart of Apple’s fiscal earnings call Q&A session, straight from the mouth of CEO Steve Jobs: “I can report that we’ve sold a quarter million Apple TVs .” Quite an impressive number for a device that’s only been out for 18 days but by no means on par with the likes of some other Apple debuts (the iPad, for instance, sold 300,000 on day one). Still, not bad for the once ( and possibly still ) hobby. Apple TV hits 250,000 in sales, says Steve Jobs originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 18 Oct 2010 17:52:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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President Obama has accomplished so much during his tenure with so little gratitude from the American people, lamented the Monday panel for MSNBC's “Morning Joe.” What is to blame? Poor marketing by the White House, the panelists answered. “Where is the celebration over what has been done and accomplished in the face of all this anger and vitriol in Washington?” complained co-host Mika Brzezinski. “No credit. No credit at all for what he's accomplished,” lamented “60 Minutes” correspondent Lesley Stahl. Like something from the novel Frankenstein, Stahl cast Obama's rescue of the economy as a doctor saving the life of a horrible burn victim. “He saves the guy's life – this is our economy…but the guy wakes up and he's got scars all over his face, and that's all he sees, that's all anybody sees,” she described. “And how – what's the doctor supposed to say? And that's what [Obama] is fighting, he's fighting an economy that just won't give him anything.” So after so much has been accomplished, why are the Democrats not campaigning on the Obama agenda?
Continue reading …No real surprise here : Crystal Cathedral Ministries, an Orange County landmark and megachurch founded by television evangelist Robert H. Schuller, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Monday morning. The cathedral owes about about $7.5 million to unsecured creditors. The bankruptcy filing seeks court protection from its creditors. In a statement issued Monday, Senior Pastor Sheila Schuller Coleman said the bankruptcy filing was a necessity because a “small number of creditors chose to file lawsuits and obtained writ of attachment.” She said the cathedral also had no choice because a committee of creditors decided not to extend a moratorium to allow continued talks about a payment plan. “For these reasons, the Ministry now finds it necessary to seek the protection of a Chapter 11,” she said. They desperately need new management in there if they have any hopes of saving that church from destroying itself.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Four men were found guilty on Monday by a federal jury of placing explosives outside New York synagogues last year. The four, arrested in an FBI sting operation in May 2009, were being tried in Manhattan federal court. They face the…
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As the standoff between Cablevision and News Corp over broadcast fees drags on for a second day, New Yorkers have already had enough. (Oct. 18)
Continue reading …That’s up a point from last week and a continuing sign of trouble for Democrats: Election Day is just two weeks away, and Republican candidates hold a nine-point lead over Democrats on the Generic Congressional Ballot for the week ending Sunday, October 17, 2010. Forty-eight percent (48%) of respondents say they would vote for their district’s Republican congressional candidate, while 39% would opt for his or her Democratic opponent. Even more worrisome for Democrats, however, is the finding that among the voters who are most closely following the midterm elections Republicans hold a 55% to 36% lead. While the margin has varied somewhat from week-to-week, Republicans have been consistently ahead on the Generic Ballot for over a year, and their lead has run as high as 12 points and as low as three points. When Barack Obama first took office as president of the United States, the Democrats enjoyed a seven-point lead on the Generic Ballot. In news of other things that have changed since Obama took office, this from Mark Knoller of CBS: National Debt stood at $10.626-trillion the day Mr. Obama took office. Latest listing on Treasury website shows Debt at $13.665-trillion. I think it’s safe to say the two items are related.
Continue reading …Bioneers 2010: Gary Hirshberg Explains How To Scale Up Sustainable Foods
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Photo via edni Gary Hirshberg is the CE-Yo of Stonyfield Farms, an organic yogurt company, advocates that it is possible for businesses to be part of the solution when it comes to sustainability. It’s been a point he’s successfully lived out through his company for years, and at Bioneers he made the point that it is possible to scale up organic foods, feeding the masses while staying sustainable. It’s a contentious point and one of hot debate among, well, most anyone, but during his talk he landed on five essential elements of … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Nothing Like Seeing for Yourself Our friend Clarence over at StreetFilms wants to convince you to commute by bike. To do that, he decided that the best way was to show you what his commute is like. He explains not only what each type of bike path and road that he uses is like, but also why he enjoys the ride so much! I love the personal touch, and seeing all the other cyclists around NYC warms the cockles of my heart. This video is highly recommended. Send it to friends who are thinking about bike-commuting. Via
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In a story on Florida Democratic Congressman Alan Grayson's bid for reelection on Sunday's CBS Evening News, correspondent Michelle Miller described the left-wing bomb thrower this way: “Freshman Democratic Congressman Alan Grayson considers himself a fighter….Whether taking on the foreclosure mess or the Republican Party.” Miller briefly referred to Grayson's history of controversial comments: “…this lawyer, former businessman, and economist, has gained notoriety for his partisan remarks on the House floor.” A clip was played of the Congressman proclaiming that Republicans wanted to people to “die quickly” because they opposed ObamaCare. However, missing from the report was any mention of Grayson accusing his opponent of being like the Taliban for having socially conservative views. read more
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