In between 2nd & 3rd gear.

I would say pulling off Pecha Kucha was an official shfting to 2nd gear for sure. Taking the building from Brooklyn warehouse style Heavy Metal BBQ to the hosting of that event is a definite, measurable progression.


We turned major corners in the past couple of days. We just secured TECO (Tampa Electric Co. for all you foreigners :-) as an official sponsor. In a lot of ways, one could argue TECO is the enemy of a zero energy project such as ours. The fact they are officially getting behind what we are doing lends a great deal of credibility to us and is bound to accelerate sponsorship involvement. We will be promoting TECO's net metering plan where we sell power back to the grid and will feature an interview with a TECO official in the documentary.

We had a very positive article come out in the TBT last Friday : Project 3.0 in TBT.

We finished the rest of the concrete installation for the main floor last Saturday. We even had 3 volunteers from Tarmac - the sponsoring concrete company - help us out! We have very good prospects in the pipeline for the water-based (green) acid stain; my main prospect has been featured on the TV show "flip that house".

Take a look at the latest photos : Latest Project 3.0 pix.

Shelby MacIntyre - one of the producer of the documentary on Joe Redner's life - has agreed to get involved in the production of the documentary. He's going to edit our existing footage to date & produce at least 4 episodes cued up. We will be releasing these weekly starting in the next 30 days. The idea is that within 6 episodes the show carries on in real time.

The official destination site for the Campus TV - is currently under construction by a 4 person team of the International Academy of Design. We are expecting to go live with our content within the next 30 days.

Enclosed you will find the latest marketing package on Project 3.0 that sums where we are at right now. This is what I am hitting the next round of sponsors with. When you go to the sponsorship page in the proposal you can click on the sponsor logos to learn more about the companies already involved

Project 3.0 Marketing download.

R

Blessed

As I sit here on the balcony of the Roosevelt I reflect on the Chinese expression that "Chaos creates a Dangerous Opportunity". Chaos Theory is a discipline in mathematics that revolves around the concept that every system - no matter how chaotic - has underlying patterns of order.

There certainly swirls a tremendous amount of chaos around this project and this applies not only to the project itself but also to the personal circumstances of all involved. In a lot of ways it is the perfect backdrop for something like this to even materialize in the first place. Shifts never occur in comfort zones. Just one example - a good friend of mine's house burned to the ground a couple of weeks ago; he came within minutes of losing his life. There are a number of intertwined events surrounding this seemingly tragic event that may end up presenting themselves as golden opportunities. This will become apparent as it unfolds; everything is being filmed as it happens. Our goal right now is to launch the episodes on a weekly basis by the end of this month.

The concept of synchronicity and how these people and events are connecting is an evolving central component of Project 3.0 as it unfolds. That show will be called "Law of Attraction in Action".

The other two shows in production currently are "Project 3.0" - which will focus mainly on the technical and entrepreneurial elements & "On a Heavier Note" - which will feature empowering positive information through an extreme music platform.

Synchronicity

Introduction.

Project 3.0 is a Tampa Florida based collaborative of talents uniting toward a new business paradigm. That paradigm can best be described as an open source collaborative that utilizes web 2.0 technology to advance it's objectives through the execution of offline projects.

You can download an intro package on the core team here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?5fuql2ymdom

The free residential retrofit discussed in the package will launch in 2009 once the site infrastructure is in place.


One of the central themes of our webcast wil be the conversion of the old Tampa Brew Co. building to a zero energy use. Progress will be documented in weekly episodes & will be packaged in an entertaining wrapper.


Here is our latest press coverage on the project:

http://www.wmnf.org/news_stories/project-30-a-new-standard-for-environmental-community-development

http://tampa.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/environmental_group_project_3_0_greens_ybor_city/Content?oid=567520.


This is our other project; the first Earthship to be build in Florida:

http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/jul/20/couples-home-will-be-down-earth/

This article made the front page of the Tampa Tribune and was also featured 8 times that week on Fox 13 news. It was the most watched story that week.

Here is Bryan on that newscast:

http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail;jsessionid=48197F8D6074D8C635E2B0D978784AC2?contentId=7542006&version=2&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=1.1.1&sflg=1

The idea here is that our original content serves as a catalyst to attract like-minded participation.


If you have any idea or input that will improve / accelerate what we are doing you are encouraged to step forward and join our team.