From August 9-25, while I am in California, a stellar group of guest bloggers will take up  residence at OTBKB. I will be writing "Postcards from the Coast," too. So if the post doesn’t say guest blogger, it’s me.

August 16: Chandru Murthi of I’m Seeing Green.

August 15: Eleanor Traubman, of Creative Times, on what you can do with your hands.

August 14: Sunset Parker weighs in on another Sunset Park restaurant.

August 13: Chandru Murthi of I’m Seeing Green talks about organic food and other matters.

August 12: Eleanor Traubman of Creative Times tells a story about a rainbow xylophone she found at a stoop sale and a CD called Soul Sauce.

August 11: Sunset Parker, discusses the Sunset Park Mexican restaurant scene. Today he reviews one of the newer restaurants. 

August 10: Chandru Murthi, lives in Park
Slope with his wife and son. He does not have his own blog but he
wanted to give blogging a try. About five years ago, Chandru developed an
interest in the urban
environment, both at the planning and the design levels. Deciding that
he could put his engineering and his interest in environmental issues
to good use, he enrolled in a Master’s program in Environmental
Planning at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, from which he has recently
graduated.

Much of his research during his Master’s program was in the
environmental aspects of high-performance or “green” buildings. His
last paper for his degree was on “Attracting ‘green’ manufacturing to
the New York area”. The premise is that it is still possible, and
desirable, to attract light manufacturing or assembly jobs to New York
City by selecting the appropriate “green” technologies and industries.

August 9’s guest blogger was the oh so creative and unpredictable Eleanor Traubman of Creative Times who always has something interesting and illuminating to share with her blog-readership. She will be back next week.