The Great Recession has also forced some to rediscover the value of community. Some of this has been done by establishing time banks, where members trade services that are tracked by hours rather than dollar value.
For example, one member of a time bank may provide an hour of tax advice to another. Another may weed [...]
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Chris Ketchel, April 2nd 2010
Student Athlete Housing
We are currently looking for the best example of this type of development anywhere. So this my attempt at reaching out to my social network and yours. Please retweet this and mention it to anyone especially architects and developers.
Chris Ketchel, April 1st 2010
Please Save the Appalachian Trout Waters
Use the power of the internet to learn more about this problem. New York, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia have discovered the Marcellus shale region to be one of the largest concentrations of natural gas in the world. The extraction process from this layer of sedimentary rock a mile below Earth’s surface DOES NOT HAVE TO [...]
Chris Ketchel, January 16th 2010
Citation
“?Raleigh is a great fit for RIM given its highly skilled work force and proximity to many excellent academic institutions,?”
Chris Ketchel, January 7th 2010
Placemaking builds social environment from intellectual one
“It’s more about creating a cultural, social and intellectual space on campus now than it is about building a book repository,” said Steven J. Bell, an associate university librarian at Temple University who writes the blog “Designing Better Libraries” and an online column for Library Journal. “The library re-imagined is a place of community.”
Library will [...]
Chris Ketchel, October 23rd 2009
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