The Sethmosphere

Awesome office party. My graditude goes out to everyone who came. Special big-ups to Tom Bianchi who played on such short notice.

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This Boston Globe story says it all…

Wish list for ski areas: snow and cold

By Tony Chamberlain, Globe Staff | December 21, 2006

SOUTHINGTON, Conn. — This time most Christmases the quaint red barn greeting skiers to Mount Southington ski area wears a blanket of snow on its Dutch-colonial roof, and lots of families from this rolling hill country southwest of Hartford usually are planning their vacations around the skiing and riding here.

Mount Southington is a classic Connecticut area, one where operators learned generations ago that the key to survival is knowing how to make the kind of snow people like to ski and ride on — soft and well-groomed.

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Other links:

Many didn’t warm to snowless holiday |
Boston on the brink of setting record for warmest December

Hi Folks,

Please see my Miracle on Merrimack Street article from the December 2006 issue of The Valley Patriot, and posted on the Innovation Vally site.

There is a miracle occurring on Merrimack Street in Lawrence.

On less than one mile of riverfront property, the seeds of a new economic revolution are taking root. The world’s largest green condo development is underway in the conversion of Wood Mill. This is a 1.3 million square foot retired wool factory that, when built in 1905, was a cornerstone of industrial prowess in America. Today it is becoming the cornerstone for Lawrence’s revitalization and helping to set the mold for how old industrial cities can reinvent themselves with green sustainable thinking. In doing so, the project is showcasing the tenacious power of Northeast ingenuity.

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