Who imploded the economy? Many critics point to a crucial role played by traders of exotic unregulated financial instruments which are understood by few people. Currently most of these traders at American Insurance Group remain unnamed while receiving bonuses for “safely” dismantling an investment system turned doomsday machine which happens to hold the fate of the world’s financial system.

Are you concerned that your children's health is affected by pollution?
Do you want some answers about your industrial neighbors?
Do you want to build your environmental campaign skills?

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The Cleveland Public Library (CPL) Collinwood Branch will be holding a two part lecture series focusing on small business ownership. The purpose of the Small Business Lecture Series is to introduce the public to small business resources.

The Series will draw attention to three sources of information that are freely available to city residents: CPL reference and circulating materials, SCORE services, and the experiential knowledge of local business owners. SCORE Cleveland is part of SCORE "Counselors to America's Small Business," a national nonprofit association dedicated to entrepreneur education and the formation, growth, and success of the nation's small businesses.  

I wrote this post on my blog - on a series of strategies that are all connected together.

If you're into it - go check it out. Its pretty nerdy stuff for this REALNEO crowd and it includes lots of insider issues, politics and dogma.

But hey!  You may enjoy it.

Once a year, during the brief run of the Cleveland International Film Festival, Cleveland feels like one of the great cities of the world. For a little more than a week the grand space of Tower City is filled with life; diverse crowds of art lovers flow in and out, steadily buzzing with excitement for what they are experiencing. Because it only happens once a year, it is easy to overlook The Cleveland International Film Festival as one of Cleveland's greatest assets.
 

May 20, 2009, 7:30 a.m.-9:00 a.m.: Environmental Division Meeting
Shula’s 2, DoubleTree Cleveland South, 6200 Quarry Lane, Independence
Discuss upcoming CES events, updates on regulatory issues, and whatever interests you. Free to attend, breakfast is on your own. Register online:  http://www.cesnet.org/evtView.asp?evtID=166

May 27, 2009, 7:30 a.m.-9:00 a.m.: Climate Change Roundtable

"78% of the homicides in the City of Cleveland are African American Males murdering each another!" was the small print I first noticed on the flier stuck between the bars on Snag's Glenville door, when I stopped by the other day. 

This is Toronto

This is Toronto on Smog
 

Strategic direction : it's such an important thing, as Ed Morrison has long driven home.  Strategic doing, to me, involves careful planning and action - and its reassuring to see the core of talented thought leaders that have comprised this collective.

 All Aboard Ohio has just launched a social networking site, Ohio Passenger Rail. Join to: stay updated on the latest news, meet others who are interested in passenger rail and become a part of the grassroots movement to increase our transportation options.  

Topic: An Economic Forecast for Northeast Ohio

Speaker: John Burke, President, Burke Rosen & Associates; Professor Emeritus of Economics, Cleveland State University; Adjunct Professor, John Carroll University

Program Sponsorships and tables available. Earn 1 Continuing Professional Development hour.

Location: Hilton Garden Inn Cleveland Downtown

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Join us the first Friday of every month for networking at the Bier-Markt. FREE appetizers and nonalcoholic beverages.

Online registration not required but helpful: http://www.cesnet.org/evtView.asp?evtID=163. Ask about sponsorship opportunities: http://www.cesnet.org/conNew.asp

Location: McNulty's Bier-Markt

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This event has been cancelled.  Information about future Climate Change Committee programs is available here: http://www.cesnet.org/newsAnnouncementView.asp?nwsID=109

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Panel Discussion: "Transportation: How We're Moving Economic Development"

Moderator: Howard Maier, Executive Director, Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency (NOACA)

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Sponsored by SE Blueprint, Inc. and Boundless Flight.

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Kickoff program for Leadership Breakfast Spring Series. Speaker: Jeffrey L.

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Discussion about issues related to climate change. Topic TBA. Free to attend; breakfast is on your own.

Local: Shula's 2 in the DoubleTree Cleveland South

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Sponsored by SE Blueprint, Inc. and Boundless Flight

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This was your NEO

This is your NEO on FFOEF

The war is on.  Bombs away....From Cuyahoga County Planning Commission blog:

Deconstruction is a wonderful opportunity to create revenue from what would typically be waste material that would be directed to landfill otherwise. The typical cost of demolition of a typical home in an underprivileged community often exceeds $8000. In addition, demolition needs to be accompanied with the use of excessive water - which is another form of waste - to ensure toxins like lead, asbestos, or mercury do not spew into the surrounding air, soil and water. When deconstructing, this toxicity spread and water use is circumvented.

A recently-released article in the Boston Herald offers some remarkably similar points to those I made recently on the Cleveland Planning group on Facebook - and have since been deleted - but in the grand scheme of things, this serves the greater good quite well.

"because the only thing better than the president using a mac is the president having a motherf*cking PAC-MAN sticker ON his mac."

-- theslyestfox

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