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The Breakdown: Bringing Bike-Powered Composting to Austin, One Pedaller at a Time
Eric Goff and Dustin Fedako are businessmen, but the pair doesn’t play by the same rules as most. Goff believes in existing as a “not-just-for-profit” business, staying true to the Slow Money philosophy that teaches entrepreneurs growth that actually helps the economy and gives back to the community from which it came, instead of simply taking. Enter: East Side Compost Pedallers, a business that just celebrated it’s one-year anniversary and is sharing what it knows about community, waste and good, nutrient-rich soil.
Cheer Up: Charlie's Reopens its Doors
Drag queens lip-syncing to Brandy and Monica, live psychedelic music reverberating against a rock wall amphitheater, and a crowd of hundreds of people with a line extending down Red River Street. The grand reopening of Cheer Up Charlie’s was such a success that it’s hard to believe the former location closed only a month prior.
An Alternative Approach to Homeless Housing
The people behind the Community First! project picture a $7-million, 27-acre space in East Austin filled with housing, living and gardening opportunities for Austin’s chronically homeless.
There's Austin on the Walls
The hostel sits on top of Thai Noodle House, located right across the street from the UT campus, and doubles as a gallery for aspiring artists. Andy Ward, 2011 UT alumnus and owner of Drifter Jack’s, opened the hostel in early October of 2013, right in time for the Austin City Limits Music Festival.
Social Club Lends Their Legs to the Austin Blind Community
The volunteers are members of Social Cycling Austin, and they’ve come to the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired to guide students on a bike ride through the surrounding neighborhood.
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What's the Hold Up? The Mopac Improvement Project
Long-awaited improvements to State Highway Loop 1- affectionately nicknamed Mopac because of the train that travels in between the north and southbound lanes, the Missouri Pacific – have finally begun, and will continue for the better part of the next year. The project is scheduled for completion in the fall of 2015, with final touches finishing up by early 2016, according to the project’s Director of Community Relations Steve Pustelnyk.