Wine and Shine
I saw an awesome headline today:
Going Green Reaches Economic Tipping Point at Wine and Shine 2009
Serious implications for vineyards! A few wineries in Cali are 
supposedly powering their operation from the sun, courtesy of solar installation and financing company, Conergy.
Environmental Advocacy
With Obama’s stimulus package passed, it is a victory nationwide for treehuggers and environmentalists alike. It is the tipping point for a movement that’s been building momentum for decades. I’ve recently gotten involved with the Sierra Club here in Philadelphia, and you can see the glimmer and the mist in these peoples’ eyes when they talk about the times we’re in. The love for the planet now makes economic sense. From the need for energy independence, to skyrocketing health care costs, to an economy in depression, the time has now come to renew our world.
Enable Curl on Xampp
I generally do my development work on a local windows machine with the latest version of Xampp installed. I was recently toying around with the tayst twitter feed, and was having trouble using curl with xampp.
The problem?.. curl was not enabled by default in Xampp. You receive the following error:
- Fatal error: Call to undefined function curl_init() in C:\xampp\htdocs\tayst\twitter\index.php on line 4
The solution? These simple steps! (more…)
Amazing Sand Art
I love it when I discover a new art online. Historically, this has come in the form of finding incredible new music, stumbling upon a battleship made of toothpicks., or just finding what may be an intriguing book.
Today, I found this video by Ilana Yahav demonstrating her work – “Let’s Get Together”. This is a dynamic “painting” using sand as a medium. Reminds me of my creative “struggles” with the etch-a-sketch when I was a kid. The coolest thing about this, is that unlike painting, or drawing, this is a very eco-friendly / sustainable art form.
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