Friday, December 6, 2013

Zoning laws: Biking and hiking, but no parking | The Economist

So do we have more to love or fear from the Portland example?

CHAPEL HILL: Womancraft gallery preps for move to Carrboro | Chapel Hill | ChapelHillNews.com

What a history! Did the Compass Committee contact this and other businesses that are no longer at Meadowmont? Which businesses have left East54 and why?

CHAPEL HILL: Transit experts: Orange, Durham not ready for light rail | Orange County | ChapelHillNews.com

I really don't think this is a very well researched story. Lots of opinions, but no effort to sort out the facts.

AOL mogul Steve Case invests $22 million in local, organic salad restaurants | MNN - Mother Nature Network

Why not invite them to Obey Creek?

Lolly Wolly Doodle — What A Journey

This is a North Carolina company. Why wouldn't we want to encourage a company that makes great stuff to set up a plant or other sort of hard goods facility right here in Obey Creek? Steve CASE is an investor and why don't we ask him to come talk with us about opportunities for manufacturing in NC?

La ville fertile : vers une nature urbaine / Actualités / Culture / Accueil - Site de la ville de Nice

This is a great concept. How can we apply the idea of a "fertile city" to Obey Creek?

Compass Committee Votes To Change Obey Creek Plan - Chapelboro.com

See my comment at end.

Triangle Transit Leader Defends Light Rail Plan - Chapelboro.com

I still think this should be a part of Obey Creek thinking and planning.

Carte Magique - Inscription

Where is the innovation, like this, in Obey Creek?

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Sunday, December 1, 2013

Amazon unveils futuristic plan: Delivery by drone - CBS News

If this is where the proverbial hockey puck is headed, what is the point of looking toward retail at Obey Creek? Why not plan for the inevitable and put activities at Obey Creek that will feed into the Amazon system - produced here by real people?

Where Factory Apprenticeship Is Latest Model From Germany - NYTimes.com

How could apprentices be a part of Obey Creek?

A shop selling everything made in NC

Imagine a store at Obey Creek that focuses on selling only products that come from NC, whether from its soil, sea or made in factories, etc. Of course, there are definition issues, but those are surmountable. Suppose you could have a first shot online at ANY product made in NC, and the certainty that it would be in the Obey Creek store the next day?
Imagine, too, that adjacent to the store was an assembly plant that put NC items together, essentially. Or an NC testing laboratory. Something that would be part of the retail production cycle.