Comments on: Tennessee Contemplation of Pirates http://www.gloriaferris.net/2008/10/tennessee-contemplation-of-pirates/ one woman’s view from a place by the zoo in the city Wed, 25 Jan 2012 07:37:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Gloria Ferris http://www.gloriaferris.net/2008/10/tennessee-contemplation-of-pirates/comment-page-1/#comment-9856 Gloria Ferris Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:14:15 +0000 http://www.gloriaferris.net/2008/10/tennessee-contemplation-of-pirates/#comment-9856 WOW! Thanks, Glen. Thanks for taking my dinosaur comment and running with it. Excellent points and ideas for solutions to the morass we find ourselves in at this point. With minds like yours, Cleveland will again be a force to be reckoned. WOW! Thanks, Glen. Thanks for taking my dinosaur comment and running with it. Excellent points and ideas for solutions to the morass we find ourselves in at this point.

With minds like yours, Cleveland will again be a force to be reckoned.

]]> By: TimFerris http://www.gloriaferris.net/2008/10/tennessee-contemplation-of-pirates/comment-page-1/#comment-9853 TimFerris Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:48:39 +0000 http://www.gloriaferris.net/2008/10/tennessee-contemplation-of-pirates/#comment-9853 Wow. These are ideas whose time has come. This is getting to be a truly great dialogue, and thanks, Glen. Wow. These are ideas whose time has come. This is getting to be a truly great dialogue, and thanks, Glen.

]]> By: glen http://www.gloriaferris.net/2008/10/tennessee-contemplation-of-pirates/comment-page-1/#comment-9840 glen Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:07:27 +0000 http://www.gloriaferris.net/2008/10/tennessee-contemplation-of-pirates/#comment-9840 Gloria, nice find on the pirate article. Didn't the Corsair Group just board National City? Corsair: 1. a fast ship used for piracy. 2. a pirate, esp. formerly of the Barbary Coast. Boy these pirates have alot of chutspah to actually announce that they are pirates instead of sneaking through the back door to rob you. The dinosaur comment got me thinking. The dinosaurs evolved towards gigantism, while the little, nimble mammals found niches in which to thrived, and maybe there are some lessons there for Cleveland. Like Ireland's potato famine, overinvestment in a single crop, idea, industry or idea, instead of diversification and decentralization leaves a system fatally vulnerable to the failure of a single cog. Uncontrolled bank mergers have brought us lumbering giants like Nat City, who chugged CDO kool-aid while little, nimble mammal bank Third Federal, thrived in it's niche, all the while looking out it's windows at its Slavic Village neighborhood to get a crystal clear picture of what all that debt really was. I wonder if the lumbering brontosaur GM might be better off as a bunch of smaller, nimble, independent mammal companies. Lets watch Tesla motors and Tallmadge's own Meyers Motors http://www.myersmotors.com/ to see if there are niches where these mammal companies can survive. The notion of economy of scale might now be reaching diminishing returns in the 21st century. Maybe the Cleveland Metropolitan School District is suffering because of its gigantic proportions. Maybe it should be four or five little, nimble mammal school districts of about 10,000 students, each district implementing best practices learned from the others. CPP needs to become a nimble mammal instead of a lumbering stegosaurus, waiting for the big asteroid strike. It can do this by finding a niche in which to thrive. How about a decentralized power producer of carbon-free energy? CPP must help Cleveland homeowners put a 2KW (about 10 PV panels) on every south facing roof in the city. They have already made a step in the right direction with their net metering program. It is time to stop blowing hot air about some future freshwater wind farm, and build one on shore, right here, right now to announce that Cleveland is playing for keeps. Ten or twenty wind turbines along the shore from edgewater to Bratnahl, showing up in every national broadcast of Indians, Cavs and Browns home games will make one hell of an impression that we do more than just studies here in Cleveland. That would be the nudge required to convert the Erie wind farm from repetitive, pointless duplicate studies to a concrete reality. DIVERSIFY, DECENTRALIZE, DEATH TO BEHEMOTHS! Gloria,
nice find on the pirate article. Didn’t the Corsair Group just board National City?
Corsair: 1. a fast ship used for piracy. 2. a pirate, esp. formerly of the Barbary Coast. Boy these pirates have alot of chutspah to actually announce that they are pirates instead of sneaking through the back door to rob you.

The dinosaur comment got me thinking. The dinosaurs evolved towards gigantism, while the little, nimble mammals found niches in which to thrived, and maybe there are some lessons there for Cleveland. Like Ireland’s potato famine, overinvestment in a single crop, idea, industry or idea, instead of diversification and decentralization leaves a system fatally vulnerable to the failure of a single cog.

Uncontrolled bank mergers have brought us lumbering giants like Nat City, who chugged CDO kool-aid while little, nimble mammal bank Third Federal, thrived in it’s niche, all the while looking out it’s windows at its Slavic Village neighborhood to get a crystal clear picture of what all that debt really was.

I wonder if the lumbering brontosaur GM might be better off as a bunch of smaller, nimble, independent mammal companies. Lets watch Tesla motors and Tallmadge’s own Meyers Motors http://www.myersmotors.com/ to see if there are niches where these mammal companies can survive.

The notion of economy of scale might now be reaching diminishing returns in the 21st century. Maybe the Cleveland Metropolitan School District is suffering because of its gigantic proportions. Maybe it should be four or five little, nimble mammal school districts of about 10,000 students, each district implementing best practices learned from the others.

CPP needs to become a nimble mammal instead of a lumbering stegosaurus, waiting for the big asteroid strike. It can do this by finding a niche in which to thrive. How about a decentralized power producer of carbon-free energy? CPP must help Cleveland homeowners put a 2KW (about 10 PV panels) on every south facing roof in the city. They have already made a step in the right direction with their net metering program. It is time to stop blowing hot air about some future freshwater wind farm, and build one on shore, right here, right now to announce that Cleveland is playing for keeps. Ten or twenty wind turbines along the shore from edgewater to Bratnahl, showing up in every national broadcast of Indians, Cavs and Browns home games will make one hell of an impression that we do more than just studies here in Cleveland. That would be the nudge required to convert the Erie wind farm from repetitive, pointless duplicate studies to a concrete reality.

DIVERSIFY, DECENTRALIZE, DEATH TO BEHEMOTHS!

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