Join or Die: Getting Radically Rural Plus Jazzmeia Horn in The Jazz Room
Release Date: 06/20/2024
Innova802: Activate with UVM’s Kendall Fortney
Are We Here Yet Podcast
Kendall Fortney is an artist and designer based in Vermont who is currently the Program Director for UVM's VERSO the open-source program centered at the University. Kendall spoke with the Innova802 crew on the power of the open-source community in shaping a society that delivers human-scaled, beneficial solutions in technology. VERSO offers a vibrant community of problem solvers engaged in their accelerator. Also mentioned in our conversation
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Our Indigenous Peoples Day Special
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For our latest Are We Here yet? podcast we offer four perspectives sure to keep you contemplating on this upcoming Indigenous People’s Day. Our Season III guest Doug Harris, retired archivist for the Narragansett Tribe spoke to us regarding . We feature two clips here, the first focused on answering the question, ‘what is this place and who are we?’ The second which ends our podcast focuses on his groundbreaking work alongside Smithsonian documentarian , which has dispelled many falsehoods about the peoples of this part of North America. How they lived, traded and thrived for...
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Making Pee Pay w/ founder of BrightWater Tools plus Orrin Evans in The Jazz Room
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CEO Kimmerly Nace is dedicated to changing the narrative on how we see our waste. She’s passionate about making this planet, or rather making its people work better for a sustainable planet for all of us, creatures large and small. Imagine a world where our toughest waste issues become some of our most profitable revenue centers? Literally turning problems into profit; using our existing financial incentives for good and not greed. We spoke about her team at of Brattleboro, VT and it’s origin story in the international mission organization she also founded the . ...
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Innova802 Series: Why tech should START with employee ownership plus Orrin Evans in The Jazz Room
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Startup founders: today’s audio plat savoureux from the Innova802 crew focused on our guest Matt Cropp, executive director of the We discussed why you need to consider your future exit now at the onset of your enterprise and why you should take a serious look at forming an employee-owned enterprise and how. The history of tech and tech enabled companies since the post WWII years is a history of equity sharing so it’s often a short walk for companies to consider employee ownership (co-operative models, employee stock ownership plan (ESOP)). We defined how these models work...
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Solving the Housing Crisis in Rutland, VT w/ the RRA’s Ed Bove plus composer Maria Schneider
Are We Here Yet Podcast
We examine local real estate markets and the unique mix of property and economic development components at the local level here at the ‘Are We Here Yet?’ podcast so our listeners can find inspiration for their own local efforts back home. This episode host Scott Graves sat down with Ed Bove, Executive Director of the in Scott’s adoptive hometown of Rutland, VT. Scott found resonance with Ed in their shared interest in incremental development and generally a ‘Strong Towns’ approach to neighborhood building. The discussion centered on how Rutland and the RRA...
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Adding Spark to Pioneer Valley Tech
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Without getting to Jargon-ey, our guest Gregory Thomas and yours truly explored where and how we in the private sector and within institutions can support the journey from on-the-shelf research to marketplace success. Gregory is The Executive Director and Lecturer for the . UMASS is a leader in cutting edge research for a number of Massachusetts tech sectors. The UMASS system which includes campuses in Lowell, Dartmouth, Boston and the Chan Medical School in Worcester offers a robust set of innovation-driven resources for students and community members. How can...
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Innova802: Biomimicry in Action Plus Jon Baptiste in The Jazz Room
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The team at Innova802 enter the solutions-driven world of biomimicry with Vermont entrepreneur Byron Garcia. Byron is the founder of where he and his team study the natural flora and fauna of the planet for clues to solving some of industry’s most pressing issues. Projects include improvements to data center cooling systems through the mimicry of beetle wings and elephant ears and a whole new class of non-nicotinoid pesticides that prohibit the infestation of pests without killing them or any other organism. And in The Jazz Room: Re re-visit Joan’s 2021 interview...
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For the Climate, For our Neighbors
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We had the distinct pleasure of engaging in conversation with two very special professionals. In their report, , authors & offered us insight into the importance inner perspective within each of us plays in the necessary task of reimagining how we collectively survive and even thrive on the planet. Our conversation was vivid. I have to say I personally enjoyed these interviews, taken over two months this past spring, for many reasons. Our solutions based conversation offers a number of internal and external applications each of us can engage in to make our lived experience together...
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Innova802: Bringing CHIPS back to Vermont
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Doug Merrill is Regional Innovation Officer for UVM in Burlington, VT. Doug is leading the charge for the a regional reshoring initiative spurred on by the CHIPs legislation. Doug joined the Innova802 team to discuss the project's progress and its potential impact to the regional economy. We also talked about what's so fab about gallium nitride microprocessing chips. From a rural development perspective the state of Vermont is eager for this reshoring of technology-based manufacturing and research to benefit more than just Chittenden County. This decentralization of economic benefit is...
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How Do We Deal with Toxic State Government?
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For more than five years Travis Benson has represented the interests of citizens of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as a policy advocate, primarily working on issues of transparency. His article, recounts the current dysfunction of the state legislature of Massachusetts. The issues we discussed are not unique to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, a state near and dear to host Scott M. Graves, the state of his birth and upbringing. For those listening in Massachusetts and other states, discover through our discussion some insight as to countering the issues Travis recounts. Issues you...
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“Rural communities do not exist solely to be extracted from. They are also generative, they can host tech, sic (the example from) our radically Rural biotech (program) is to not just bring (biotech) to but grow from the people and places we already have.”
Julianna Dodson, Director of Radically Rural and Deputy Director for the Hannah Grimes Center for Entrepreneurship spoke with us regarding the well documented need and regenerative benefit of our relationships in order for community development, the kind that is lasting and has a net positive effect, to develop. It was clear from our conversation Julianna has a deep commitment to her work and that of countless others bringing people together for business and social benefit in her community of Keene, NH. For those of us building local economies through tech or creative class industries, building a socially cohesive environment is essential for realizing a desirable city to live in.
Engage with the Radically Rural Summit in September 2024
...And in the The Jazz Room: We met with singer/composer/arranger Jazzmeia Horn at the Newport Jazz Festival. We talked about her CD “Dear Love” and her big band, ”Noble Force”. Learn more about her work by clicking here.