Start an Organic Farm

Nicolas Donck is one of the pioneer farmers who helped to set up the Morningside Farmers' Market in Atlanta ten years ago. Learn about his farm and what he does.

Efficiency Now - It's Never Been More Important

Air Flow Dryer

Free Bike Lending Library

A student-led bike library opened Sept. 24 at the University of Denver (DU) offering high-tech bikes on loan for free, and a glimpse of the citywide bike sharing program that gets rolling next spring. The free DU lending library is open to all students, faculty and staff using the same bikes that will dot the city landscape in early 2010.

Big Green Initiatives - IBM

Today IBM (NYSE: IBM) opened a new data center designed to support new compute models like cloud computing, to help clients from around the world operate smarter businesses, organizations and cities. The new data center reduces technology infrastructure costs and complexity for clients while improving quality and speeding the deployment of services – using only half the energy required of a similar facility its size. The data center will ultimately total 100,000 square feet.

Water Tank Waltz

Redwood Water Tank Repurposed into 20 Green Projects

AirStash Demo on iPhone

Plug-in Electric Porsche 918 Spyder

U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer tours Ioxus

U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer toured Ioxus on February 15, 2010 to discuss future growth. Schumer secured $1,427,250 used to save jobs and expand our workforce.

Water as alternative fuel - Fox News Report

Solar-Powered Water Purifier

WWF has selected Solvatten, a solar-powered water purifier, as a 'Climate Solver', recognizing this Swedish invention's potential to reduce green-house gas emissions. Given the number of people worldwide currently treating their water by boiling with firewood, WWF estimates that, with widespread distribution, Solvatten could be reducing CO2 emissions by 26 million tonnes per year by 2020. The use of Solvatten can reduce dependence on firewood and other fuels, since it uses the sun's rays.

21st Century Business featuring Azure Dynamics

When your calendar is a moral document: A conversation with Reverend Jim Wallis

When your calendar is a moral document: A conversation with Reverend Jim Wallis
The CEO of the social-justice organization Sojourners discusses the imperative for rethinking values in the wake of the economic downturn.

JANUARY 2010

At this year’s World Economic Forum, in Davos, Switzerland, the topic of corporate ethics and personal values will take on marquee status as one of the six highlighted pillars of the 2010 meeting. Reverend Jim Wallis—author, CEO of the social-justice organization Sojourners, and Davos veteran—has helped drive the change that moved the issue of values to the core of this year’s discussions. In this video interview, Wallis reflects on the opportunity that the crisis affords for reestablishing ethics in our lives and in the marketplace. He also shares some of his Davos experiences and notes how his conversations with CEOs there about ethics in business helped set the stage for his latest book, Rediscovering Values: On Wall Street, Main Street, and Your Street—A Moral Compass for the New Economy. McKinsey Publishing’s Rik Kirkland spoke with Wallis in Washington, DC.

Managing water strategically: An interview with the CEO of Rio Tinto

Managing water strategically: An interview with the CEO of Rio Tinto
Tom Albanese explains how Rio Tinto is adapting its operations to a future when climate change may make the world’s dry parts drier and wet parts wetter.

JANUARY 2010

Water management has become a strategic issue for Rio Tinto, one of the world’s largest mining groups, whose operations tend to be located in areas that are either arid or plagued by torrential rains. In this video interview, CEO Tom Albanese discusses the economics of water, the role of climate change, and how Rio Tinto is adapting its operations and seeking to make water management a source of advantage. Bill Javetski, an editor with the McKinsey Publishing group, conducted the interview with Tom Albanese in Durham, North Carolina.

Reshaping business education in a new era

Reshaping business education in a new era
Blair Sheppard, dean of Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, discusses how the expectations of MBA students are changing—and why the traditional MBA education needs to change as well.

JANUARY 2010

Source: Strategy Practice

This is a Conversation Starter, one in a series of invited opinions on topical issues. Watch the video, then share your thoughts by commenting below.

With rising interest in corporate social responsibility and increasing doubt in the sanctity of institutions, an evolving breed of MBA student is surveying the business landscape with a more discerning eye and demanding a new type of education. One person who feels this shift acutely is Blair Sheppard, dean of Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. Sheppard has a prime view of this maelstrom of forces—changing expectations from students, different contours of global business, new management issues for educational institutions—and a unique perspective on what these portend for business students and business schools alike. He spoke in New York with McKinsey Quarterly editor Allen Webb about where MBA education stands in the wake of the financial crisis, and where he thinks it’s headed.

Eric Mead: The magic of the placebo

Sugar pills, injections of nothing -- studies show that, more often than you'd expect, placebos really work. At TEDMED, magician Eric Mead does a trick to prove that, even when you know something's not real, you can still react as powerfully as if it is. (Warning: This talk is not suitable for viewers who are disturbed by needles or blood.)

Dr. Jane Hightower - Diagnosis: Mercury Commonwealth Club

The Cove

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UC Berkeley special events, interviews, and lectures featuring distinguished faculty and guests.

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UC Berkeley special events, interviews, and lectures featuring distinguished faculty and guests. To view these events as webcasts visit webcast.berkeley.edu. Full course lectures available, too.

DUhatch Student Business Incubator

CERC: Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization at Duke
Duke's Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization (CERC) views entrepreneurship in its most broad context, as the realization of vision without regard to the resources initially available. This includes but is not limited to: social, commercial, and technological innovation, as well as efforts that seek to innovate within institutions through new programs, projects, and grants

CERC fosters entrepreneurship by bringing people, ideas and resources together and serves as a portal to Duke research, education and commercialization programs.

CERC is a collaborative effort involving schools across campus and their programs, including the Medical School, Pratt School of Engineering, Arts & Sciences, and Fuqua School of Business as well as the Office of the Provost, the Office of Licensing and Ventures and the Fuqua Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.






DUhatch connects enterprising students with mentors from faculty and industry, giving them office space, and facilitating business development to help solve the myriad problems a fledgling venture faces.

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A Video on Pen Computing

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Jeff Hawkins Biography
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Jeff Hawkins - Lecture - Entrepreneurship, Palm Computing and Handspring

Being an Entrepreneur is Only One Stage of a Business Career

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Being an Entrepreneur is Only One Stage of a Business Career

Undergraduate and Early Career Experiences
01:01 Choosing Corporate over Academic and Developing First Product
00:42 Passion for Product Development Which Led to Becoming an Entrepreneur
00:57 Starting a Software Company for Handheld Computers - Palm Computing
00:55 First Product Failure and Following Market Research
00:55 Decision to Move Forward and Start a New Company
01:38 Developing the Palm Pilot and Raising Additional Funds to Get to Market
05:47 A Video on Pen Computing
00:49 Handling Rejections and Finding an Acquiring Company
02:24 Decision to Leave Palm and Start New Company Handspring
01:00 Handspring's Relationship with Palm
00:23 Handspring's New Handheld Product - Visor
00:49 Funding New Company, Handspring
01:01 Taking Handspring Public
02:46 Future of Handheld and Wireless Technology
01:57 Being an Entrepreneur is Only One Stage of a Business Career
05:21 Gold Rush Analogy as it Relates to the Internet Boom
01:17 Importance of Following Your Passion - Which for Him is the Product
01:06 Maintaining a Balance and Finding Happiness
00:55 Connection Between PDA Products and Neurology
01:02 Different Role of Operating Systems in Desktops Versus Handhelds
00:58 Entrepreneurs Who Deserve Admiration
00:49 Competition
00:54 Thoughts on Voice Recognition Technology


So now I'm gonna turn my comments to the present, and give you some suggestions about some advice, perhaps. I have a normal set of top ten lessons from Jeff that I give to people, and I was going to give it here, but I decided not to, I decided to try something different. I met with a number of students yesterday, and I was surprised by the number of times I was asked a particular question, and it seemed to be something that was resonating with a number of them. They were basically asking, "What should I do? Should I finish my degree, or go start a business now?" or "Should I finish my degree, and go work from someplace, and then start a business?" Those were the choices; I'm gonna start a business, so should I do it immediately before I finish school, or should I do it right after I finish school, or do I have to work someplace first? It was a legitimate question, and I didn't think there was an easy answer to it. And, so when somebody asked me that, I said, "You know, I don't think that's an easy question to answer, I don't think there's a yes or no, but I'm gonna try an analogy on you, and work through it with you." And I didn't really have time to rehearse this to myself, forgive me if I get a little off track here, but, first thing to remember is that entrepreneur is not a career. It's not something you do for your life. If you're successful as an entrepreneur, you very quickly become a business person. The people that are usually entrepreneurs for careers are usually the people that aren't successful at it! It's also not a title! Some people say, "I hate those boxes, when you fill in those forms, they say what's your position, what do you do for a living", and you know, you're not an entrepreneur, that's not something you do for a living, that's a kind of embarrassing thing for me to admit. And I don't know what to say, engineer, business person, product person, I don't know. But anyway, you gotta remember that it's a set of business principles, or business tools that can be applied for starting companies and growing companies, and you gotta bear that in mind.

Thoughts on Graduate Education

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We should not stereotype, it's like saying is the BS in a hotel school a dinosaur too or you know... I don't think it's necessarily true. I think that there is a core curriculum that has to be provided; it has to be provided for young people in certain areas of knowledge that they have to have. I think the MBA that turns out somebody that works in the accounting department of Ford and is prevented from even exerting their intelligence other than factual detailed stuff that comes to their desk, you're certainly going to waste an MBA to do that. I don't think... you know, it's fine to have the education but you're not going to use it, but the individual who comes out of any decent MBA program, who has a foundation of knowledge then understands... has also desire and ability to make impact, I don't think the MBA necessarily hurts. I think people who write books about this stuff, ten to one package it in a way that describes anything... but everything is the same. It's really not. What you have in this room is a group of 25 of 30 people, all of whom are very different, all of whom have different personalities and different skill sets. What you're doing is providing them a foundation of education, a way of looking at the world through an education vision. However, they then have to go and look at the world through the eyes they see when they get out and I think it's really up to them and the environments that they're in. Certain MBAs from schools that the peer group is not as exciting or as interesting as some other MBAs will probably have no use for that MBA but the ones that are and want it, I think can get it. So I would take an opposite... I would take an opposite view for that. My own view of education is you get as much as you can when you can because it's going to be a gap period in your life where when you're working, you can't get it and that ... I'm a perfect example of that. I mean I stopped really doing anything outside the hotel business for maybe 30 years because 30 years every minute of my mind was focused on learning my business and learning everything that was in the business. So if somebody says something I knew about it, I could talk about it, I could relate to it. I wanted to know it. It was my... that was my PhD essentially, and then as soon as I sold my business seven years ago, or eight years ago, I started to take courses again and so now I'm learning from a whole different perspective. So I think that that's going to happen to the young people here too. They're going to get blocked in their ability within their organizations. But I think that the education they're getting here or an MBAs later on ... you know they're still going to have the opportunity. So I don't ... it's a good question but I don't really agree with it.

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Bet’s Fish Fry (Boothbay, ME)

Bet’s Fish Fry (Boothbay, ME)
Booth Boy Road & Common Drive

One of my favorite shoots to date was this one, at Bet’s Fish Fry in Boothbay Harbor. This hardly talked about street food delight is owned and operated by one of the sweetest people I’ve ever met. Besides being loved by the locals, Bet dishes out some mean fried haddock and fries. Next summer be sure to plan a road trip around Bet’s Fish Fry.

Anatomy of Apple Design

Anatomy of Apple Design from Transparent House on Vimeo.

Transparent House used its visualization capabilities to create a tribute to a company they greatly admire on the occasion of the iPad release. The idea was to show a glimpse into the history of this product giant by modeling some of the innovative products they've developed in their 3+ decade history.

The animation was done entirely using 3Ds Max and V-Ray render and took about 10 days to complete. Professionally done 3D visualization is the perfect tool to present concepts or new products in a beautiful, photoreal style, while creating a mood with music and conveying a message, through on-screen text or narration.

This animation was an artistic exercise and not intended for commercial use. The animation is not affiliated with Apple or any third-party companies. We hope this animation will be used mainly as an educational tool for the 3d visualization or/and design industry.

Update: We get a lot of comments and questions on why iMacs or iPods were not shown in the animation. The movie was done on the occasion of release of iPad. We wanted to show the products in Apple history that in our opinion were best related to the nature of the iPad. There were also time limitations - we just couldn' t get every product in.

Paul Krugman Profile In The New Yorker Links To Loudon Wainwright III Singing 'The Krugman Blues' (VIDEO)

In short, standing in angry opposition to the Bush administration had its fun kicks, but watching the Obama administration flail has given him... well, the blues. And with that, I'm going to turn it over to Loudon Wainwright III:



Larissa McFarquhar's lengthy profile of Paul Krugman in the New Yorker ("The Deflationist") chronicles how the prominent economist/columnist went from being a writer mainly concerned with the "smart and stupid" to one concerned with matters of "left and right."

It's the story of a conversion -- not from one political point of view to another, but rather how he came to participate in the mean-minded field at all.

(Also, scroll down to see the NewYorker.com video of folk singer Loudon Wainwright III crooning "The Krugman Blues". Sample line: "Sometimes when he's on the TV, in the background you can spot his school logo. Paul teaches at Princeton U, so Krugman ought to know.")

McFarquhar notes:

When Krugman first began writing articles for popular publications, in the mid-nineties, Bill Clinton was in office, and Krugman thought of the left and the right as more or less equal in power. Thus, there was no pressing need for him to take sides--he would shoot down idiocy wherever it presented itself, which was, in his opinion, all over the place. He thought of himself as a liberal, but he was a liberal economist, which wasn't quite the same thing as a regular liberal.
And as a liberal economist, he was tired of the typical political battles ("Supply-siders never tire of proclaiming that taxes are the root of all evil, but reasonable people do get tired of explaining, over and over again, that they aren't"), and the state of play hadn't yet reached the point where his faith was badly shaken ("Occasionally, he received letters from people claiming that corporations were cooking the books, but he thought this sounded so implausible that he dismissed them").

Ultimately, and not particularly surprisingly, it was the election of George W. Bush that galvanized Krugman to enter into ideological combat. But McFarquhar does a fine job of pointing out that Krugman never really gave up preferring to fight the battle of "smart versus stupid." He's been a vigorous critic of the Obama administration's policies and politics ever since the early 2008 primary season. However, she also notes that the process of shifting from a Bush critic to an Obama critic hasn't always been as fun:

But most people didn't see Obama the way Krugman did; they thought he was the savior of the left, and the passions of the campaign were such that when Krugman wrote columns deriding Obama he was lacerated--scathing comments on the progressive blogs, more hate mail, and not the fun kind. "I won't try for fake evenhandedness here," Krugman wrote. "The Obama campaign seems dangerously close to becoming a cult of personality." "OK, you did it," one commenter wrote in response. "You lost me. I've defended you on local blogs but you've sunk into low territory." "You're devolving into a caricature with your gross misrepresentations and strident, ignorant defense of the Clinton campaign," another wrote. "Paul, you're killing a little bit of your readers' souls," a third wrote, "or at least those of us who used to love your column." "The primary was terrible, it was awful," Krugman says.

"Paul was getting attacked by people we thought of as on our side," Wells says. "I thought to myself, Well, I knew things were going to change, but this is quick and hard enough to give you whiplash. One of our friends said, 'You'd better be careful, because Obama supporters might put rattlesnakes in your mailbox.' People said, 'Oh, Paul's son works in Hillary's campaign.' " (Krugman has no children.) "People were so upset and angry after Bush, they had taken leave of their senses. They wanted to give themselves over, and they resented people like Paul who said, 'No, don't give yourselves over, think about what's going on.' They wanted to feel that they were being redeemed, and this is what Obama was offering, but he doesn't have the right or the ability to redeem people; that's not appropriate."

What Alice And The Hatter Have To Teach Us

What Alice And The Hatter Have To Teach Us
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Move over, "Avatar!" After its first week in theaters, Tim Burton's new version of "Alice in Wonderland," starring Johnny Depp, is drawing record crowds. True, there's chit-chat about the good news/bad news of this rendition, and its 'Burton-esque' darkness. The fact is that this classic Lewis G. Carroll tale is an enduring story, as apt for our times as when it was penned in 1865. What makes this story timeless? While some are convinced Carroll's story was political, the deeper dimension has to do with identity crisis, something even our ancestors faced before each developmental leap

Falling Down the Rabbit Hatch
No matter what rabbit hatch finds us, we still have choice. Simply put: how do you choose to respond? Alice opens wide her senses, follows clues, wrestles with the unexpected. Ultimately, she risks becoming herself. Up 'til then, she's let her circumstances define her. We are not our circumstances, or present life events, despite the fact that the collective believes that we are. Whenever there's an evolutionary leap in human awareness, on either individual or collective level, we are challenged to redefine who we believe, and expand the box. But first, the tumble. You don't have to be a shaman to slip down the hatch. We all fall. In fact, this is the Fall. We fall from Grace, smack into the Dark Night whenever we invalidate our own true nature, pretending we are not inextricably linked to the rest of nature. But, then, it's human, and stories arrive for a do-over just in the knick of time to help us course correct.

"Who Are You?"
Initially, Alice is confronted by the hookah-smoking blue caterpillar: "Who are you?"
The fact is that neither Carroll nor Walt Disney studios have a corner on characters who challenge us to rethink the essential questions every day of our life. Our own 'caterpillars' come in many form. Maybe it's the news covering natural disasters like those in Turkey, Chile, and Haiti -- catalyzing our examination of whether we are 'our brother's keeper?' Or, do we 'check-out' and change the channel? When we read the fact that soldier suicides for January 2010 outnumber all the military deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan, combined for the same time period, what's our reaction? Do we simply shrug it off? Meanwhile, back home, who amongst us doesn't encounter some street person carrying a cardboard sign, while straddling a highly trafficked stop light? Two weeks ago, a man held his cardboard in front of my car that read "Needy." Last week, on 45th N.E. in the University District, a young woman's placard read: "Pregnant. Struggling. Need help." Were Alice to hold a sign, it might look like "Indecisive, self-doubting." The caterpillar's question is a question for our times.

What Sign Are You Holding? If you were holding an invisible sign that described you, what might it say? In the aforementioned, the sad thing is that we too often define ourselves as though we were our conditions. You are far, far more than this. In fact, when we see our identity as our life events, we box ourselves in, diminish, as the Hatter put it our "much-ness." No small wonder that the constant refrain in Burton's storytelling was this: "Who are you because you are not the 'real' Alice!"

A Significant Lesson for our Time.
Well, then, if we are not the sum total of our circumstances, what is the Truth? Who are we? Desiderata put it this way:

"You are a child of the Universe;
No less than the trees and the stars;
You have a right to be here." -- Desiderata

Will the Real Alice Please Stand Up?
If our 'inner Alice' has a right to be here, along with the moon and the stars, who might we be today if we embraced our own "much-ness," if our real-Alice-ness stepped through our confusion and doubt? What bold act might you take? What adventure might be yours? Here's what poet Mary Oliver has to say:

"There is no adventure like loving the world,
Or some portion of it.
Or some spirit encased in some particular body.
This year I turn (I think, I don't keep exact count),
seventy-three.
Every day my feet grow heavier, my spirit grows lighter,
I have been so blessed." Mary Oliver

Four Prescriptive Teachings:

1. Reclaim your 'much-ness.' Maryde, a 37-year-old gifted client's been hesitating to "do what she really wants, to open an orphanage," because she's afraid to give up the security of her C.P.A. practice, which leaves her drained, and confused ala Alice. Confusion comes when we break fundamental agreements with ourselves, to tell the Truth about what really lights our fire, rekindles the flame of our unique 'much-ness.'

2. "Get a bigger pan." Amazing composer/performer by the name of Karen Taylor-Good sings about a man who goes fishing, lands a beauty of a trout, throws it back, and is asked 'why?' Says he, his 'pan's too small.' Her solution? Get a bigger pan! How many times do we toss back into our depths our best ideas, deepest inspirations, greatest joys? We play too small. Do yourself a favor and check out www.karentaylorgood.com

3. Clear away the clutter that obscures who you are. Meaning, decide to shift your story. Otherwise, we stay in permanent rabbit-hatch-mode that defeats the imperative of our nature: growth. What saved Alice is her decision to recognize her confusion, her ailing heart's delight, and she ran in the direction of her fascination: the white rabbit. While our lives are not brought to us by Walt Disney, there is a 'take-away' here. Follow the direction of what holds the greatest life, away from that which is stale.

4. Tame your dragon. Eliminate what does not rejoice you, pass on those e-mails and social network affairs that have nothing to do with keeping you moving in the direction that's vibrant, regenerative, and uplifting for your own Spirit. Retire the need for approval-seeking. Life's an adventure. Live it to the hilt. Says Oliver:

"When it's over, it's over, and we don't know
any of us, what happens then.
So I try not to miss anything.
I think, in my whole life, I have never missed
the full moon
Or the slipper of its coming back.
Or, a kiss,
Well, yes, especially a kiss."


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5 Easy Ways to Stay Inspired (Video)

5 Easy Ways to Stay Inspired (Video)





Inspiration comes and goes when it pleases. It's independent of our desires, doesn't respond well to force, and refuses to be controlled. Inspiration is a force not to be wrestled with. You can try but it will slip under the cracks every time. So how do we maintain access to inspiration so we can continue to direct our efforts in a useful productive manner with as much ease and efficiency as possible? Seems only reasonable to make a deal with inspiration and give in.


5 Ways to Stay Inspired.

1. Open up. Inspiration doesn't respond well to tightness we can practice softening our strong opinions and our desires. Once we learn how to be easy in our bodies and minds, all the good stuff pours in our direction. If inspiration is like water then we can carve out a path for it to flow.

2. Allow others to inspire you. We get so caught up in doing everything for ourselves, including inspiring ourselves, that it's exhausting, and not at all useful. Take a look around you. Look at your friends. Open up to your friends and take in the caring and good intentions they hold toward you. We spend so much time closing ourselves to protect from scary things that we forget that when we do open to the world inspiration can flow.

3. Take care of yourself. When your body and mind is healthy and functioning correctly, all things necessary are lined up for inspiration to flow through you. Eat well, sleep well, and practice well. It's best to give our bodies and minds as much opportunity to live to the fullest as we can. If we are healthy and vibrant we also can live longer, and be inspired longer. Bonus!

4. Make a change. It takes a huge amount of courage to actually take a good look at yourself and decide to make a change. It's easy to talk about it, think about it, and even plan to do it. Compassion, reflection, action. Make it happen.

5. Have a good time. The universe is set up to work in your favor. It takes loads of self-work to realize, and continue to realize that. The world is full of amusement. Enjoy yourself. A good start is not taking ourselves so seriously.

Try this yoga routine the next time you are wanting to gain some inspiration. It's designed to open up the body and the mind so you can step into inspiration without squashing it!

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Political Science

Ronald Lauder's Billion-Dollar Collection

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Hawaii-Grown Tea: An Interview with Tea Farmer Eva Lee

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Tea & Food Pairing with Karter

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Moroccan Tea Culture

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Moroccan Tea Culture

Tea with Norwood : Brewing Enlightenment

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Tea with Norwood : Brewing Enlightenment


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Slow Tea with Alice at Modern Tea

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A Japanese Tea Gathering at San Francisco’s Urasenke Society

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A Japanese Tea Gathering at San Francisco’s Urasenke Society

David Lee Hoffman, Tea Pioneer: Part 1, 2 & 3

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David Lee Hoffman, Tea Pioneer: Part I,2 & 3

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How To Get Into Tea

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Delicious tea and food pairings

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Delicious tea and food pairings. Pick the perfect food to bring out delicious flavors in antioxidant rich tea.

Tea & Food Pairings featured in the segment:

White Tea
Poached eggs, buttered sour dough toast with honey, sauted greens, steamed veggies, and desserts like vanilla ice cream and flan all help to bring out the subtle floral sweetness of this beautiful Chinese White tea.

Puerh Tea
Quiche, omelettes, nutella on toast, bittersweet chocolate, robust red wine and cheese, and spicy foods all pair really well with this earthy, espresso-like aged Chinese tea.

Green Tea
The succulent, floral, aromatic quality of jasmine flowers blended with organic, fair trade Chinese green tea pairs really well with rich, robust, smoky, heavy foods. Brioche French Toast, bacon, smoked fish, huevos rancheros, red meat, baked swordfish, sauteed onions and garlic are all ingredients and flavors that pair greatly with this tea.

Tea & Health:

Seasonal, whole leaf Tea is healthy, as it's got less caffeine than coffee, loads of antioxidants, and a natural, fresh delicious taste that comes only with artisanal whole leaf leaves sourced from small family farms around the globe.

It's soothing, and simultaneously uplifting, actually known to stimulate the same brain waves that yoga and meditation do!

And, organic, Fair Trade tea is good for the environment as it is sustainably harvested from small scale family farms.

Tea is romantic, and perfect for valentine's day. Bring health and clarity to life and your loved one by giving them artisanal tea.

Tea is easy. Brewing whole leaf tea is simple and fun, just add a pinch of fresh tea leaves to hot water, steep, and enjoy.

Tea is about connecting: Living today in our modern world people have the need to connect, slow down, and take time for appreciating life. Tea delivers that.
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About Samovar Tea Lounge:

It raises the bar as the first tea company to launch an unprecedented eco-friendly packaging design consisting of 100% compostable materials. Recognized for its award-winning tea menu and leading role in the burgeoning American tea movement, Samovar develops innovative eco-conscious solutions for everyday small business needs.

Samovar's ingenious packaging utilizes 100% post-consumer cardboard for its exterior shell and a wood pulp fiber liner to retain maximum freshness of their handcrafted teas.

A pioneering Bay Area green business, Samovar proudly introduces a sustainable container that, if composted, would turn to soil within a couple of months. The new container will be available in October 2009.

Samovar holds an exclusive partnership with Eva Lee and Chiu Leng of the Hawaii Tea Society as they will supply artisan tea made in America.

Samovar's goal is to further put America on the map for the production of premium artisan tea. After eight years of continual farming in Volcano Village on the Big Island, Samovar is the first mainland outlet to feature the limited edition Hawaii-Grown Oolong and Hawaii-Grown Black Tea, which will be released on September 1, 2009.

Samovar recently prepared a custom tea blend for His Holiness The Dalai Lama. The tea is named after The Dalai Lama himself, its titled Ocean of Wisdom. The tea accompanied The Dalai Lama as he presented "The Missing Peace" project at various art institutions across the U.S. Ocean of Wisdom is available for purchase at Samovar's three Bay Area locations and online at

Samovar is the exclusive retailer of "Gyokuro Inoka Hill," which took 1st Place in the All Japanese Gyokuro Tea Competition last year. No one else in the world sells this tea, not even any retailers in Japan. It's for only politicians and dignitaries in Japan, and Samovar customers.

Almost all Samovar teas are organic and fair trade certified.

Samovar utilizes many eco-friendly sustainability practices in their design and building efforts. They use many reclaimed and renewable resources as they design new locations. Their latest locale features a 1200 year-old, 20-foot naturally wind fallen redwood tree from Marin, CA serving as the tea bar.

All tables are from wind fallen old growth trees, and the FSC certified wood flooring comes from sustainably managed US forests. All the metal work utilizes materials from turn of the century food processing facilities.

Samovar allocates 1% of their profits to an education budget for standout employees to travel to other countries to research new teas firsthand, attend national industry and restaurant conventions, and take tea education classes.

For more information about Samovar Tea Lounge, visit samovarlife.com

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San Francisco, CA 94103
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San Francisco, CA 94114
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All the lights are shining bright down in the city
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and all those dreams are falling right past me

Everybody needs a dreamcatcher
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Everybody needs a dreamcatcher
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to turn, turn, will be our delight
till by turning, turning we come round right.

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