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Tuesday, April 17, 2012

TEDx RedRiver Videos Featuring Robert Trudeau, Leia Lewis, Judy Williams, and John Grindley

TEDxRedRiver ~ John Grindley ~ Unplugging to Connect HD

John Grindley is the Executive Director of Cohabitat Foundation and as a person who has been available to everyone for the past few years, he wanted to take a moment to talk about how we need to disconnect from technology and reconnect with people.

http://youtu.be/FUN9uF7FNus

TEDxRedRiver ~ Judy Williams ~ Unplugging to Connect

From our March Event, Judy Williams talked about finding your inner self by letting the world go away, and just being quiet with nature.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWyScdmo5bM

Community Building - January 2012 @ Cohab!

TEDxRedRiver ~ Robert Trudeau

Robert Trudeau is a multi-media artist, blogger, teacher, music maven and author of How To Mardi Gras. Mr. Trudeau presented "Currying an Alternative Carnival: the Story of Blanc et Noir Marching Society" detailing his work with Shreveport-Bossier's exceedingly diverse group, representing several of Shreveport's communities in Mardi Gras celebrations such as the Highland Parade.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDWLOdTJCC8&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL941CDE9A40B2F1EA

TEDxRedRiver - Leia Lewis

From our January 2012 event, Leia Lewis came to share her motivating story of the Sankofa Foundation in Shreveport LA.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxLqSseistM&feature=bf_next&list=PL941CDE9A40B2F1EA&lf=results_video

See our videos from our previous events here (see the playlist at the bottom of the window): http://j.mp/TEDxRedRiver

And be sure to follow us online at http://facebook.com/TEDxRedRiver to stay up to date on all our events.

Our next upcoming event will be exploring local artists at Minicine? Swampland on May 22, 2012.

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Ideas & Projects

General Quality of Life Projects:

a dog park: increasingly it's an expected city amenity. At the least it's a fenced area where dogs can be off leash. Often it's a social gathering place--for the owners as much as the dogs--and can have water, benches, gazebos, etc.
a food coop: could be just a place to pickup orders with minimal necessary space. Jen Courtney runs one now out of her car.
an every day, year-round, farmer's market: Arden and Kevin Kennedy tell us Ruston has one that's every day; Lafayette has one that's year-round; could Shreveport?
a building materials reuse coop: a community run facility for recycling building materials and preserving historic structures in the city (such as furthered by the the Building Materials Reuse Association, and as exemplified by this one in Boston, or this one in D.C.) Dr. Steve Shelburne and USAF Ret. Major Dan Marcalus are enthusiastic proponents of this idea.
a bicycle coop: a community run facility for bike repair education and tool-sharing (such as these in Austin, New Orleans, Fayetteville, and D.C.)
h igh speed local rail--or normal passenger rail--through Shreveport to Dallas and Jackson; what is the status of this project?
improved bus service: think driving your car is so much more convenient and enjoyable than using public transit that it outweighs the environmental harm it does? Then you probably haven't lived in a city with a public transit system. And don't blame Sportran director Gene Eddy; he uses it himself and wishes it could be better, but his funding keeps getting cut.
the Coates Bluff Greenway: a multi-use path through the forest, including educational nature and history signage that could run from E. Washington and Youree to Stoner Ave. going behind Magnet High School; nature trailhead already establish at Savoir St.
a bicycle & pedestrian plan for the city; with one in place specific projects can be advanced more easily; support can be developed and funds acquired; projects such as:
painted bike lanes, "sharrows" and bike boulevards to increase driver awareness of cyclists, cyclist sense of security, cyclist knowledge of recommended bike routes, and--in the case of bike boulevards--cyclist priority and low speed limits.
www.bikeSB.org: a resource for those biking for transportation with maps, tips, and events
installing bike racks in the interests of bikers, property value, art, and the city's future; if a business has a bike rack, it show it wants to have a city where people can bicycle for transportation, and if has an artistic one, it could raise it's community profile and property value. Many an artist would accept a commissions to build a rack that would help advertise a business.

Upcoming Meetings and Events

ABS meetings are Mondays 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. in room 103 of the Wright Math Building on Woodlawn Ave., across the street from Magale Library on the Centenary College campus.

Radio Show every Monday at 5pm on kscl, 91.3.

Many are themed, such as these meetings from last year:

September 12, Coates Bluff Nature Trail

August 29, Capacity Building Presentation, Jennette Ginsburg

August 15, Coates Bluff Planning Meeting IV, Jon Soul

August 9, Dog Park Alliance Fundraising Training

Amy O'Prye

August 1, Bayou Pierre Bridge

July 25, Ron Heezman, Director of Caddo Parish Library System

July 18, Dr. Gary Joiner, Civil War Mound at Future Dog Park Site, Hamel Memorial Park

July 11, Coates Bluff III Meeting, Gary Hanson, LSUS Red River Watershed Management Institute

June 13, Downtown Library: topic TBA

June 6, Community meeting on nature trails and bike ways (Steph Pedro & Jennette Ginsburg)

May 30, Kings Highway and Youree Drive Intersection Renovation and Redesign (Steph Pedro & Jennette Ginsburg)

May 23 Downtown and Shreveport Common & Transit Hub (Demerath)

May 2: Shreveport Common & Magnet High Buses (Demerath & Manning - CoChairs)

April 18: Debriefing from Saturday's Community Meeting (Pedro and Demerath - Chairs)

April 11: City Fit Challenge (Sabra Hicks - Guest)

April 2: Bike Transportation Grants; Centenary role in Coates Bluff (Pedro and Demerath - Chairs)

March 28: Adjudicated Properties (Bonnie Moore & Malcolm Stadtlander Guests)

March 21: Property Taxes (Steph Pedro - Chair)

March 7: Coates Bluff (Jon Soul - Chair)

February 28: Education (Brian Salvatore - Chair)

February 14: The City Bond Issue (Liz Swain - Guest)

February 7: Downtown Zoning (Bill Pogue - Guest)

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Tuesday, April 17, 2012

TEDx RedRiver Videos Featuring Robert Trudeau, Leia Lewis, Judy Williams, and John Grindley

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