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Negative Cost Selling Solar Arrays

School Board Pays Negative Cost for new Solar Panel Installations Rex Parris, Mayor of Lancaster, California doesn’t like to lose. It must come from his class-action lawyer background where he won almost $1 billion in claims for his clients and himself. Three years ago he decided to make the city where the sun (almost) always [...]

Justintime Trudeau Announces New Foreign Policy Initiative for Nation

Canada to Annex Ecuador MONTREAL (March 18, 2013)—Newly elected Liberal leader, Justintime Trudeau, announced today that if elected Prime Minister he will introduce a new foreign policy initiative—the annexation of Ecuador. “It is my government’s view that Canada and Canadians must look south to solve recurring weather-related economic issues. Today, I am setting out a [...]

County of Renfrew Reborn

Here are the slides from a talk on economic renewal that I am giving for the County of Renfrew on Monday September 17, 2012 at 10 am at the Best Western Renfrew Inn and Conference Centre. The challenges facing the county are not unlike small towns elsewhere in rural Ontario and, for that matter, in [...]

Big Video Shout Out to Brevis Gallery Artists & Artifex Sponsors

Plus Introduction to Generation Q, Film by prototypeD.org Plus Introduction to Quantum Entity Trilogy How diverse, sustainable, interesting and vibrant a place would Ottawa be or any city if every one of our artists went on an Atlas Shrugged-inspired strike forever? We want to thank each of our Brevis Gallery Artists and our sponsors for [...]

Artist Entrepreneurs Converge on National Gallery of Canada

World Premiere of Short Film by Not-for-Profit, Ottawa-based Studio, prototypeD Media Release OTTAWA – June18, 2012 – Artist entrepreneurs are coming to the National Gallery of Canada to participate in the first Annual Artifex Professional Artist Gala on June 20, 2012. Presented by Fortress Real Capital, the Gala starts at 6:00 p.m. Mayor Jim Watson [...]

Exploriem.org Newsletter: June 12, 2012

Join Exploriem, all our sponsors and Artistic Entrepreneurs displaying their works at Artifex on June 20th 2012 at the National Gallery of Canada. Doors open at 6:00 p.m. There will be a silent auction. View items Tickets can be purchased: Here. This Year’s Spotlight Artists Spotlight Writer – Bruce M. Firestone The official Book Launch [...]

Open Letter to Ottawa Sports Hall of Fame

To: Michael Flanagan, Chair and Members of the Board of Directors From: Dr. Bruce M Firestone, Founder Dear Mike and Board of Directors of the Ottawa Sports Hall of Fame: On behalf of myself, Cyril Leeder, Rod Bryden, Randy Sexton, my family and theirs, I wanted to express my profound gratitude that you saw it [...]

Ringing Pine Medallions of Red Pine Camp

A Fable According to legend, the ‘Ringing Red Pines’ of Red Pine Camp on Golden Lake in Ontario are very old, very special trees that over their lifetimes have accumulated so much energy that they start emitting a vibrating ring tone. It is believed that simply being in close proximity to these trees or having [...]

Artpreneurs Aren’t Important, Right?

Wrong! Here’s a thought experiment for you to perform. Close your eyes for a moment and ask yourself: how diverse, sustainable, interesting and vibrant a place would your city be if every one of these professionals went on an Atlas Shrugged-inspired strike forever? Here’s my list of suddenly vanishing artpreneurs: graphic artists, architects, musicians, writers, [...]

Artifex

Professional Artpreneur Gala We want to take this opportunity to thank all the sponsors of Artifex in advance of this very special event that will take place on June 20th, 2012 at the National Gallery Of Canada. These organizations make it possible to celebrate the essential role that the arts play in building better, more [...]

Exploriem.org, History and Future

C.O.M.M.U.N.I.C.A.T.E.

As readers of this Journal already know, I have become more convinced than ever that artpreneurs play and will play a larger role in carving out sustainable city-state economies in the future than at any time in the past or, at least, since medieval times. Creativity cannot be outsourced and is much harder to knock [...]