A BHM Report: Bi-Partisanship Reforms Housing in Big Sky Country Plus Christie Dasheil in The Jazz Room
Release Date: 06/13/2024
Re-thinking Commerce: Enter the Gifting Grove
Are We Here Yet Podcast
As we enter the winter solstice, exploring the dark that inevitably comes before the light, we’re considering new ways to think about gifting, yes, and what of commerce? What of a community that reverses the epidemic of loneliness pervasive in our modern society? Can we do better? That’s up in the latest Are We Here Yet? Podcast to close season X and 2024. I’m joined by Veronica Mangio, founder of the Minneapolis-based and once again by my good friend from Grand Isle County, Vermont based Byron Garcia of Natural Designs. Veronica is the inspiring founder of...
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The Can-Do of Camden, IN- Neil Mylet
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Neil Mylet is a do-er. He’s a farmer, a tech advocate and connecting rod. Neil is also putting his money and his talents where his mouth is, funding his own project, Camden Castle and ensuring a wide spectrum of top-tier programming and connections for his 600 neighbors in the village of Camden, Indiana. Neil sees great opportunity in a future rural economy leveraging AI, blockchain, among other tech and tech-enabled products and services yet to be developed. Students and their families from this village of are given opportunities to intern and engage with organizations in...
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Innova802: Pt II New Frameworks Plus The Jazz Room Celebrates the Saxophone
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We joined Ace McCarleton of Vermont-based to talk about their panelized building innovations for the housing marketplace. New Frameworks practices high performance natural building towards the construction of climate justice and regeneration. Innovation is expressed in their home construction products and processes, their sourcing of materials, for sure. But it’s also in their employee-ownership model, their steadfast dedication to inclusion and more. Learn in two episodes their origin story, Ace’s thoughts on housing innovation, employee ownership and how to...
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Innova802: New Frameworks Plus The Jazz Room on Drummers
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We joined Ace McCarleton of Vermont-based to talk about their panelized building innovations for the housing marketplace. New Frameworks practices high performance natural building towards the construction of climate justice and regeneration. Innovation is expressed in their home construction products and processes, their sourcing of materials, for sure. But it’s also in their employee-ownership model, their steadfast dedication to inclusion and more. Learn in two episodes their origin story, Ace’s thoughts on housing innovation, employee ownership and how to...
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Innova802: Snap, Crackle, Pop! Plus a Tribute to the legend Quincy Jones
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is a construction materials company manufacturing foam glass gravel, or in company parlance GLAVEL. CEO Rob Conboy sat down with the Innova802 crew to discuss what it took to bring this technology to market in the US. How are they leading in recycling and carbon sequestration, excellence in innovative construction materials how they plan for growth and what effect they can have contributing to solve the housing crisis. We recently toured their facility and give credit to the Glavel team for epitomizing what a Vermont rural innovation company should look like. Shout out...
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AWHY? Music feature Extra: We Remember Saxophonist Lou Donaldson
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Lou Donaldson passed away on November 10, 2024. In a career spanning more than seven decades, the alto saxophonist began as a stylist devotee to the bop of Charlie Parker, quickly evolving into a soulful and bluesy player which became his signature. Joan Watson Jones, host of the AWHY? Music feature The Jazz Room sat down to interview Lou in 2020 at Studio 952 in Harlem, New York City. In Part 1 of their interview Lou tells us how he got started in the business and why he took up the Saxophone. In Part 2 he tells us about working with Miles Davis, Jimmy Smith and offers his own...
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AWHY? Music feature: Celebrating Gershwin in Jazz
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Our music feature, The Jazz Room returns for a feature of the great American composer George Gershwin. Host Joan Watson Jones features many great musicians from a long list of recordings featuring the work of George Gershwin, one of the most prized composers of the American song book. For jazz musicians, Gershwin represents an endless source to be mined to create great improvisations and has been for over a century.
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The Case for Incremental Development
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Our guest is Noah Harper. I met Noah at the conference in Providence, RI. We were tasked by the organization to debate whether the Congress is positioned well as a leading voice in the current housing challenge before us all. Thus sparked some great discussion. Noah has been featured in He is a community planner for the firm J.M. Goldson. Noah is a strong advocate for incremental development and we're sure you will find inspiration in his seamless movement through themes of design excellence, craftsmanship to equity and democracy. In his own words,...
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Celebrating the Life of Saxophonist Claire Daly
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We’ve had the pleasure of featuring Baritone Saxophonist Claire Daly twice in the AWHY? Music feature, The Jazz Room. Host Joan Watson Jones first sat down with Clare at Studio 952 in New York City to talk about her CD "Baritone Monk", recorded at the North Coast Brewing Company. In our second interview Claire spoke to Joan regarding her recording, "The Mary Joyce Project-Nothing to Lose" which tells the story of her father's cousin Mary Joyce who crossed Alaska on dog sled alone in the mid 1920's. Learn more about Claire and her music at www.clairedalymusic.com
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The North Adams Opportunity Scene
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Our guest, Andrew Fitch is Communications Manager for , a Venture Capital Source pioneered by founders and government in the city of North Adams, MA. The last decade or more has seen a resurgence in young professionals rediscovering opportunities in the western half of Massachusetts. Opportunities in housing, urban development, entrepreneurship and life crafting. Much of Andrew’s time is focused on developing the capacity of the , centered in North Adams. Along with other surging organizations working in collaboration, the northern half of Berkshire County is redefining its...
info_outline"I DON’T THINK THE ‘MONTANA MIRACLE’ IS A ONE-TIME FLUKE. I THINK IT CAN REPRESENT A NEW PARADIGM OF POLITICS IN MONTANA, WHERE THE LEFT AND RIGHT JOIN TOGETHER IN COMMON BELIEF THAT MONTANANS MUST BE FREE TO BUILD, INNOVATE, AND PROGRESS IN ORDER TO OVERCOME THE BIGGEST CHALLENGES FACING OUR STATE."
So we opened our Season Nine here at the ‘Are We Here Yet?’ podcast with this quote from Kendall Cotton. He is Executive Director of the Frontier Institute. We met earlier this year after Kendall was interviewed by the New York Times. What caught my attention and compelled me to reach out to him was his thoughts on the housing crisis.
In our discussion we focused much time on how the current housing market is affecting Big Sky Country and especially on the solutions this rural state has brought to the table including re-thinking zoning and passing Montana House bill 819 which offers developers funding in order they may pass savings on to the future homeowner.
Additionally, Kendall and I spoke regarding other initiatives important to the institute and to Montana’s 21st century economy including #artificial intelligence, #dataprivacy and the government and how these sectors affect each other in the rural places we call home.
The similarities with our other rural states abound. The bipartisanship baked into the efforts of the Frontier Institute are an example to others working on substantive solutions to our rural development challenges.
You’ll find Kendall on twitter @Cotton_MT
And in The Jazz Room…
We enjoyed our conversation with singer, Christie Dasheil. She talks about her CD “Journey in Black” and what it was like growing up in a musical family.
Learn more about Christie by clicking here