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Ed Morrison · Reason.tv’s series on Saving Cleveland
March 20th, 2010
In case you missed it:
Drew Carey and the Reason.tv documentary series on saving Cleveland
Summarized here: How to Repopulate Cleveland And Other Once-Great American Cities
The series opens up the Cleveland conversation to new ideas and innovation. Open innovation can save Cleveland, but folks have to be receptive to new ideas.
Of course, Cleveland would not be Cleveland without someone throwing a pie. The Scene steps up…
Last 5 posts by Ed Morrison
- Signing off - February 3rd, 2012
- "The current global development model is unsustainable" - February 1st, 2012
- Market opportunities for developing Chicago's green economy - January 29th, 2012
- Plain Dealer flubs its explanation for firing Tony Grossi - January 27th, 2012
- Linking and leveraging university assets to strengthen regional economies - January 27th, 2012
March 21st, 2010 at 7:34 am
One part is missing: Radical innovators are purged.
Cleveland is great for taking what other cities were doing (and may have abandoned as ineffective) fifteen or more years ago and branding that innovation. The safe route is Cleveland’s being “A Plumb” because New York’s Apple seemed to work for more than a decade.
Cleveland goes green because, well, more innovative cities did it long ago and the sleepier cites are now getting in on it — and we don’t want to be last.
March 26th, 2010 at 1:24 pm
[...] Ed Morrison at Brewed Fresh Daily posted this graphic of civic decline: [...]