As part of her lecture on “New Media in the White Cube and Beyond: Presenting and Preserving New Media Art” at MoCA Taipei, Taiwan, Christiane Paul presented the Forging the Future initiative and the Variable Media Questionnaire on May 3, 2009. Christiane also presented the Forging the Future Initiative and the VMQ at the expert […]
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ThoughtMesh developers Craig Dietrich and John Bell have just launched a sophisticated reviewing system internal to the ThoughtMesh open publication platform. Unlike the relatively uncontrolled comments at a site like YouTube, ThoughtMesh’s reviews are subject to a rigorous trust metric. Each reviewer must claim a level of expertise before rating an article, and the software
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Join facilitator Bill Giordano at LongGreenHouse Wed, May 27, 3:30 pm 5 Chapel Road, Orono Sheet-mulch gardening is a no-till method for making raised beds. Abundant organic materials such as grass cippings, animal bedding, leaves, manure, newspaper, cardboard, mulching hay, straw and more can be layered on top of earth rather than yearly tilling. All
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Local plant supplier Fedco has donated over fifty fruit trees and other plants to help with LongGreenHouse’s planting marathon this weekend. Old and young permaculturalists, from both the Wassookeag home school and the university and Native communities, drew on this generous gift to populate the first catchment of food forest in the LongGreenHouse plot on
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At LongGreenHouse’s Green U-Me event, sustainability experts re-designed UMaine’s campus to nourish the body as well as mind. Several dozen faculty and students from across the campus also participated in this green design charette, whose goal was to reimagine the University of Maine as an edible food forest. Master gardener and orchard expert Mark Fulford,
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Still Water Senior Researcher Craig Dietrich chaired the panel “Born-Digital Scholarship: New Strategies, Projects, and Possibilities” at HASTAC III: Traversing Digital Boundaries, University of Illinois, April 21st, 2009. Along with introducing the panel, Craig presented an overview of ThoughtMesh and the Variable Media Questionnaire to an audience of digital humanities scholars and tools builders. ThoughtMesh,
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During the month of May, we’ll be planting a dozens of fruit trees, hundreds of berry plants, flowers and annuals at LongGreenHouse and sneaking onto university grounds, along the Food Corridor. Main gardeners will include Bill Giordano, Joline Blais, Isis Bell, and gkisedtanamoogk, with help from 3-yr old Ellie. If you help us plant, you
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What if you could pick breakfast on the way to class? LongGreenHouse is sponsoring a Green Design charette on Friday 1 May that reimagines the University of Maine campus as an edible food forest. Permaculture experts and U-Me faculty and students will be joining LongGreenHouse founders Joline Blais and gkisedtanamoogk in a green brainstorm session
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You weren’t meant to have a Job “I was in Africa last year and saw a lot of animals in the wild that I’d only seen in zoos before. It was remarkable how different they seemed. Particularly lions. Lions in the wild seem about ten times more alive. They’re like different animals. And seeing those
Learn how to plant seedlings with Eliot Coleman’s soil blocks. Just bring seedling soil (low nitrogen, plenty of vermiculite, green sand, perlite and peat; Johnny’s 512 mix is ideal), and a flat tray to put the block on, and we’ll supply the seeds. See how you can plant a flat of soil blocks that easily
