Category: Miscellaneous
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Charming A Crowd Into Attention
In January 24th, we had the chance to do a vollehalle gig at SID — “Stadtwerke Impact Day” in the northern German town of Lübeck (‘Stadtwerk’ is a nicely concise German term for ‘municipal energy company’. We can do short and sweet, who would’ve thought?!) SID is designed to unite forward-looking people in the municipal…
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A Podcast Born From A YouTube Failure
The origin story of ‘Express Change’ — the podcast which I am currently working on and which will launch in early spring of 2024 — began with a failed attempt at creating a YouTube channel. For quite some time, I had wanted to build a media project of my own that I could run without…
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Dropping ‘Climate’ From Our Tagline
Soon after we started vollehalle, the show’s tagline became ‘the climate show that provides courage’ (sounds excessively clumsy in English, but it’s a decent slogan in German). By the time 2019 rolled around, we fit right in. The Fridays for Future movement was getting plenty of attention. Greta had become a star. Everyone was looking…
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Hello world. Old School.
I am starting 2024 with a new website. Feels good. I haven’t had a proper home on the Internet in a while. Back in the day, when blogging was cutting edge, I was still working in marketing and had a thematic blog with an actual audience and proper debates in the comments section. So yeah,…