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Kasey worked for [[AboutUs.org]] in 2007.
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I work in myriad capacities for [[AboutUs]] aimed at building and learning more about about the evolving [[CommunityPortal|community]]. I appreciate working in a fluid environment where there is much to learn. I live in Portland, having moved here a year ago from [http://wikitravel.org/en/New_York_(city)/Brooklyn Brooklyn, New York.]
 
 
 
'''Things I am working on here at AboutUs'''
 
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==2008 US Presidential Portal==
 
..has inspired me to gather some quotes on politics, democracy....
 
 
 
:Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
 
:Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
 
 
 
:"My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober."
 
:G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
 
 
 
:“Twelve million illegal immigrants later, we are now living in a nation that is beset by people who are suicidal maniacs and want to kill countless innocent men, women and children around the world,” Mr. Thompson, the ex-senator from Tennessee, said at the Prescott Bush Awards Dinner in Stamford, Conn. “We’re sitting here now with essentially open borders.”  -'''Fred Thompson''' “We’re sitting here now with essentially open borders.”
 
 
 
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==Trash Project Presentations Spring 2008==
 
**I play with my trash. I explore and research aspects of household trash, consumpton and waste and have just wrapped up a year-long experiment. I'll be presenting papers on the project and related research at two conferences in the coming months, [http://conference.ewmce.com/prothos/onware.x/conf/252/index.p?!=public=11979301036000=1=16271346&Conferene=252 Edmonton Waste Management Centre of Excellence: ''Waste The Social Context '08''] and [http://www.ecocityworldsummit.org/index2.htm 7th International Ecocity World Summit].
 
 
 
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==Address==
 
: Portland
 
: OR, US
 
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==Trash Project==
 
* [http://lnpb.org Leave No Plastic Behind- ''it's going to be a hard three months'']
 
* I created a wiki page to log my experiences during [http://lnpb.org LNPB] and hopfully learn from other folks- it lives here: [[PlasticProject]]
 
* [http://www.wweek.com/calendar/3330/words/  in WWeek ''I am not a fanatic, or am I?'']
 
*  Portland based- [[CrackedPots.org|CrackedPots]] [http://www.crackedpots.org/ were gracious enough to let me do my spiel at their 8th Annual Garden Art Show- thanks!]
 
* [http://www.mfe.govt.nz/publications/waste/2006-07-national-landfill-census-oct07/html/page3.html NZ Landfill Census] :: [[mfe.govt.nz| NZ Ministry for the Environment]]
 
 
 
==Other...==
 
 
 
* [http://www.hi.is/~haukurth/norse/ Learn Old Norse!]
 
* [[TinyChoices.com|TinyChoices]]
 
* [http://craftzine.com/magazine/ ''Craft Magazine'' How Great Are These Folks?]
 
* [http://www.tinyliving.com/store/department/3/furniture/ TinyLiving]
 
* [http://www.frick.org/ The Frick]
 
* [[CansForCharity.org]]
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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[[Category:2006-11 Welcome to AboutUs!]]
 
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Latest revision as of 20:08, 3 September 2009

Kasey worked for AboutUs.org in 2007.