The continuing adventures of getting AK municipalities and homes off of oil.... Delta High School is gearing up to put their wood biomass boiler online to heat the 77,000 square foot school with the option to expand to neighboring buildings. Nice article in the Fairbanks News Miner, here. Between grants from the Alaska Energy Authority and reimbursements … Continue reading Progressive Energy Solutions AK
Bad as Me: Hanging with Tom Waits
Well virtually hanging anyway in the front seat of a very rusty old car with a great set of speakers. New Waits album, Bad as Me scheduled to drop on October 25th but it's been leaked and Tom's not too happy about it. A spoiled birthday surprise so to speak. I can understand wanting to hear … Continue reading Bad as Me: Hanging with Tom Waits
Pecha Kucha?
Hadn't heard of this presentation style featuring 20 images for 20 seconds each in a slide show format. Was checking some out and thinking about making one myself and this one featuring TEXTURE just struck me as wabi sabi to the core. Simple, found beauty, object speaking for itself, white background. Could work even without … Continue reading Pecha Kucha?
Fernando Fever
So far from los angeles, and yet it is spring in the metropolis of greater los anchorage and amidst much talk of lost languages and subjugated minority groups and there he is big screened in hotel lobby, smiling laying two thick fingers along crimson stitching and my television defenses go down swinging i am overwhelmed … Continue reading Fernando Fever
Alternative Energy Alaskan Style
OK, so this post doesn't fall into the poetry, blood, or shack category but I wanted to share two articles in AK papers I came across lately that got me excited about the new thinking that is going into alternative fuels. What excites me is the whole 'post-apocalypse' aspect of it all, I mean living … Continue reading Alternative Energy Alaskan Style
Jonas Lamb 