ShowcasePDX TV, Social Entrepreneurs — Tuesday, September 21, 2010 22:15
Showcase PDX Pilot Show- Part 3
ShowcasePDX Pilot Show- Part 2
Sunday, August 22, 2010 22:03
Pilot Show Part 2- On this show, host Michkael Baker interviews three innovators: Michael Lynn from the worker-owned, community-focused coffee house, Muddy Waters; life and business coach Angel True, who provides guidance to help people love what they do and do what they love; and Gibran McDonald, a tea “composer,” who mixes herbal “melodies” to [...]
Jill Bolte Taylor’s stroke of insight
Wednesday, July 21, 2010 23:49
Jill Bolte Taylor got a research opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: She had a massive stroke, and watched as her brain functions — motion, speech, self-awareness — shut down one by one. An astonishing story. Amazed to find herself alive, Taylor spent eight years recovering her ability to think, walk and talk.
Dave Eggers’ wish: Once Upon a School
Tuesday, June 1, 2010 1:28
Accepting his 2008 TED Prize, author Dave Eggers asks the TED community to personally, creatively engage with local public schools. With spellbinding eagerness, he talks about howhis 826 Valencia tutoring center inspired others around the world to open. Dave Eggers’ first book, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Since [...]
Television Show Of The Future
Tuesday, May 11, 2010 14:39
Welcome to the world of Portland’s creative innovators, the world of Showcase PDX. Our first program shines a spotlight on a cross-section of entrepreneurs that are contributing to the economic future of the region while fostering the values that make Portland a top destination: community, sustainability, and holistic living.
Jamie Oliver’s TED Prize wish: Teach every child about food
Sunday, May 2, 2010 22:36
Sharing powerful stories from his anti-obesity project in Huntington, W. Va., TED Prize winner Jamie Oliver makes the case for an all-out assault on our ignorance of food. Jamie Oliver has been drawn to the kitchen since he was a child working in his father’s pub-restaurant. He showed not only a precocious culinary talent but [...]
Mo- ” I have to paint, draw, create ; like you have to breathe.”
Sunday, April 11, 2010 19:02
An Interview with the Artist named Mo- Showcase: What is your profession Artist? Creative? What do you call what you do?… MO-I dont know that there really is a title nor do I know if I want to slap a label on what I do…limits you …confines you to the understood definition of said word…I [...]
Business to Business Cashless Trading
Sunday, April 11, 2010 18:53
Collin Ferguson of Xchange Stewards gives showcase the inside tip of his new Business to Business Cashless Trading system that is about to launch here in Portland Oregon. Showcase: So, tell me what is Xchange Stewards? Collin-Xchange Stewards is a new commercial trade exchange that offers local, Portland-based businesses a new type of credit so they [...]
Sustainable design’s future is the Pacific Northwest’s present
Sunday, April 11, 2010 18:48
The future is already here. It’s just not very evenly distributed.” Science fiction writer William Gibson was fond of this statement, using it to explain the remarkable prescience in his novels, including 1984′s now classicNeuromancer, which vividly described the modern internet a decade before its existence.
Little Red Bike Cafe – Inside Our Breakfast World
Friday, April 9, 2010 13:11
April 9, 2010 by: littleredbikecafe [Note: I've been a reader of the Little Red Bike Cafe blog for quite some time. This post caught my eye, and they graciously agreed to let me post it here] Long before we ever started a breakfast cafe, Evan and I were addicted to the breakfast experience. We loved nothing more than [...]
