Updates

  • UPDATE – POSTPONED UNTIL MARCH 26 Early-stage sustainable innovations face distinct challenges long before questions of scale arise. Moving from ideation and research into real-world use requires access to the right resources, partners, and pathways for adoption. In this session, Ashwathi Iyer will explore how innovators navigate this transition, drawing on concrete case studies that

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    From Ideation to Impact: Commercializing Early-Stage Sustainable Innovation
  • At a small place, one cool thing is that individual positions can be tailored to the innate talents of the staff. A downside is that jobs that are built around an individual are not readily handed off to others. People have different skills, this is a good thing. It does interfere with interchangability, though. It

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  • In 1994, me and my new boyfriend got accosted by a stray cat. Not in a bad way.

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  • I have been taking a bellydance class at A2Yoga. I took it partly because I simply cannot figure out the shimmy we sometimes do in Nia. When I looked at what I had going, and what my Nia teacher had going, I knew there were entire muscle groups I wasn’t using or I wasn’t relaxing,

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  • I have an extra ticket to a dance performance next Saturday, let me know if you’d be interested in accompanying me! Momix: Opus Cactus at 8PM at the Power Center. If there are more takers than tickets, I would think we can get more from the Summer Festival box office. Update 6/20/07: extra ticket has

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  • Definition of a lazy person’s load: carrying too much at once to avoid the second trip. Beast of Burden, originally uploaded by Roger Smith. I heard this phrase from a former coworker, Susan, I think she attributed it to her mom. Wise woman. Years later, I still repeat it to myself as a caution. I

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  • It’s been a strange week. I’ve learned of several deaths in friends’ and colleagues’ families. Two of my favorite yoga teachers in town are moving to Chicago. My yoga studio ripped out a wall of equipment. DTE decided to tear up my front garden again, this time to insert plastic pipes, 6 months after tearing

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