How can rural economies and ecologies benefit from wired citizens? Still Water Fellow Miigam’agan and co-director Joline Blais tackle the subject along with New Media colleague Bill Kuykendall at two conferences organized by Maine Rural Partners and Portland Maine Permaculture.
Tags: governance, GreenHouse, permaculture, Portland, presentation, press, sharing, sustainability, Wabanaki
At the 8th Annual ESTIA EcoPeace Conference, Still Water Co-Director Joline Blais asked her audience how to get more kids involved in growing food, connecting to the earth, and otherwise participating in conversations about a sustainable future.
Tags: Belfast, education, game, governance, GreenHouse, permaculture, presentation, press, sustainability, youth
Which is the oldest human record?
In his keynote presentation to the National Symposium of Brazilian Cyberculture, Jon Ippolito argues it is lurking in the Amazon rainforest.
Tags: Americas, art, indigenous, memory, New Media, New Media and Social Memory, presentation, preservation, sharing, Still Water, variable media
Still Water Senior Researcher John Bell and UMaine’s new Innovative Communication Design classes have been selected as a winner in stage one of this year’s Digital Media+Learning competition Badges for Lifelong Learning, an initiative of the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC) and the Mozilla Foundation with support from the MacArthur Foundation.
Tags: badges, education, HASTAC, Innovative Communication Design, John Bell, Mozilla, network, recognition, University of Maine
The University of Maine is poised to launch an innovative graduate program in digital curation, beginning September 2012. The online, 18-credit curriculum aims to train anyone who works with digitized or born-digital items to make them accessible and meaningful to present and future generations.
Tags: class, digital humanities, distance learning, education, graduate, memory, orono, preservation, University of Maine, variable media
Senator George Mitchell broke ground in November for Belfast Cohousing & Ecovillage, the sustainable community on the coast of Maine that has been called “the future of housing.”
Still Water Co-Directors Joline Blais and Jon Ippolito are founding members of the Ecovillage, along with 20 other families dedicated to this self-developed and self-financed neighborhood. Its home design won the 2011 LEED Project of the Year.
Tags: Belfast, cohousing, ecovillage, GreenHouse, LongHouse, press, sharing, sustainability
For the past several years, Still Water Co-Director Joline Blais has been working with two dozen other families to found Belfast Cohousing & Ecovillage. Now the prototype home for this self-developed, self-financed community on the coast of Maine has been declared 2011 Project of the Year by the US Green Building Council.
Tags: architecture, Belfast, cohousing, ecovillage, GreenHouse, press, recognition, sharing, Still Water, sustainability
Still Water’s co-directors are in the news this month in articles about an online song-and-story sampler and crowdfunding for indie movie projects.
Tags: economics, Lewiston, memory, movie, network, New Media, orono, press, sharing, Still Water, University of Maine
Richard Rinehart, co-author with Still Water’s Jon Ippolito of the forthcoming MIT book New Media and Social Memory, presents conclusions from the book at the POCOS/HATII symposium on Software Art in Glasgow on 11 October.
Tags: art, europe, New Media and Social Memory, presentation, preservation, publication, software, Still Water, variable media
To coincide with Digital Humanities Week 2011, Joline Blais joins permaculture experts Julia and Charles Yelton, social media hackademic Craig Dietrich, Rural Maine Partners’ Claudia Lowd, and members of the Wabanaki community in hosting “Social Media and Sustainability” at LongGreenHouse, a clearinghouse for sustainable culture on the edge of the U-Me campus.
Tags: education, gardening, GreenHouse, LongHouse, orono, permaculture, presentation, sharing, Still Water, sustainability, University of Maine, Wabanaki, Wassookeag
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