Are We Here Yet Podcast

Our Host Scott M. Graves and his essay offering personal and historical perspective; his take on the privilege of being alive to take part in reinvigorating our belief in the Constitution and the rule of law.   Part of a series of essays in the Democratic Capitalism Series .

Innova802 Crew Member Will Jeffries represented the team for the Burlington, VT premiere of a new and innovative funding organization, Compound good.  Compound Good is a nonprofit fund that allows donors to make impact investments with philanthropy, unlocking capital for social entrepreneurs. Founders include Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies (VCET), Sage Software and Lawson's Finest Liquid...

I had the distinct pleasure to sit down with two leading voices from the Congress for New Urbanism this past spring for a frank conversation on our current housing crisis. Their different ages and life experiences offer us a wealth of perspective to learn from and leverage.  Let's dive right in to learn together in order to better each of our efforts to solve the issues of housing in America.  Tod...

Are We Here Yet? Host Scott Graves chosen profession was as a performing artist.  In this episode he pays tribute to two of his idols who recently passed away, Sly Stone of Sly and the Family Stone fame and Brian Wilson, songwriter and member of the California iconic Beach Boys.  

When you connect with a born to be entrepreneur you know it.  In our experience we place all creatives; the artists, the dreamers, the community builders in this category of human experience.  Our guest for this two part episode exemplifies what we're talking about. In a little more than an hour, Ron Rivers and co-hosts Scott Graves and Ryan Munn explored Ron's development of digital solutions for...

When you connect with a born to be entrepreneur you know it.  In our experience we place all creatives; the artists, the dreamers, the community builders in this category of human experience.  Our guest for this two part episode exemplifies what we're talking about. In a little more than an hour, Ron Rivers and co-hosts Scott Graves and Ryan Munn explored Ron's development of digital solutions for...

It was a high point for co-hosts Ryan Munn and Scott M. Graves when they were joined last week by  AIGO.AI   founder Peter Voss.  Peter's a long-time innovator, founder, advocate and thinker concerning Artificial Intelligence(he coined the term artificial general intelligence) whose insights shared with us are making us think further, dig deeper into our own advocacy for the best use of AI in orde...

Host Scott Graves is once again joined by Stephen Box, Scott's partner in Partners in Housing, small scale housing developments in Vermont and columnist under the column header, the accidental activist. Stephen is also our co-host for The Housers Podcast.  Stephen and Scott explain for listeners how a more aggressive approach to building market rate housing in the US could benefit the affordable h...

Vermont isn't just shrinking in population, its aging.  The state has 30,000 fewer working age citizens between 25-40 then it did 25 years ago.  This, while modest population gains during the Covid-19 pandemic has reversed. For those of us at the Innova802 Crew, we see the effects every day.  Many citizens on fixed incomes, who represent a larger share of the population, cannot afford increases to...

Open Innovation has become essential to good science being completed by our institutions.  Our guest this week, Steve Rader speaks with experience on how open innovation, rather crowdsourcing has and will shape good science work moving forward. Steven recently retired from NASA and is an expert in open innovation after 36 years with NASA at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX.   We discussed h...

Sharing the mic with Interchain. Live and fellow Innova802 crew member Ryan Munn brought Richard Lowe to our virtual studios for a discussion regarding Rich's experience as a  ghostwriter and author in his own right.   The discussion quickly deepened to include his perspective on building the bionic worker: getting business to leverage tech to support workers as opposed to leveraging tech to repla...

Host and founder Scott Graves is asking some tough questions for all of us to ask in our own communities.  How do we get beyond a place of manufactured scarcity and support all forms of private and public housing development to meet our middle market needs?  Find Scott's Latest Essays from An Artist Audio recording on The Housers Podcast and the Are We Here Yet? Podcast .  Find his housing advocac...

Athens, GA is home to Building, Inc and founder Matthew Schneider.  Matthew is no stranger to a multi-disciplinary approach to solving some of the toughest challenges for real estate developers and tech leaders alike.  Our discussion hit upon some real-world solutions-oriented work he and his team has done and sage perspective on software use in real estate, on raising and using capital, on buildi...

Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani has spent 20+ years working to understand what's in a neighborhood by asking the question, 'Where would you take someone on a guided tour of your neighborhood?' In her 2024 book, The Cities We Need: Essential Stories of Everyday Places Viani walks us through the tours she participated in from dozens of her neighbors in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn and Mosswood in Oakland, CA...

Hosts Ryan Munn and Scott Graves are joined by Justin Loranger of web3iam in what we're sure you'll find to be an excellent primer on why blockchain is the key to transforming crypto into accepted currency, offering security and stability. Why should you anticipate the value of your name and that of your company in the digital realm? Lots to learn for building our rural economies (you don't need t...

Production notes: Please add the following voiceover to end: Do download your copy of 'Pioneer Valley Knowledge Towns Strategy Proposal' go to  https://www.smgravesassociates.com§/whitepages/   Dominic Endicott joins us for a second time on the AWHY? Podcast to discuss a white paper co-published by Dominic and AWHY? Host Scott Graves, detailing a $100 billion dollar strategy for transforming the r...

Host Scott Graves is joined by fellow Vermont houser Stephen Box of Rutland.  Our discussion focused on both the local discussion and a more global look at how parking is affecting housing in all of our communities in the United States. Stephan, a loyal resident recently received a parking ticket in front of his own house due to a winter parking ban (we know you listeners in Florida are scratching...

And in today's episode we show you some of the leading examples today.  We end our season ten with host Joan Watson Jones look into some of Jazz's unsung heroes.  Women representing a wide range of ethnic and social backgrounds have always been vital to the jazz community.  With that said, most folks focus on the jazz vocalists like Ella Fitzgerald , Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughn .   In this Jaz...

As we enter the winter solstice, exploring the dark that inevitably comes before the light, we're considering new ways to think about gifting, yes, and what of commerce?  What of a community that reverses the epidemic of loneliness pervasive in our modern society?  Can we do better?  That's up in the latest Are We Here Yet? Podcast to close season X and 2024.  I'm joined by Veronica Mangio, founde...

Neil Mylet is a do-er.  He's a farmer, a tech advocate and connecting rod.  Neil is also putting his money and his talents where his mouth is, funding his own project, Camden Castle and ensuring a wide spectrum of top-tier programming and connections for his 600 neighbors in the village of Camden, Indiana. Neil sees great opportunity in a future rural economy leveraging AI, blockchain, among other...

We joined Ace McCarleton of Vermont-based New Frameworks to talk about their panelized building innovations for the housing marketplace.  New Frameworks practices high performance natural building towards the construction of climate justice and regeneration.  Innovation is expressed in their home construction products and processes, their sourcing of materials, for sure.  But it's also in their em...

We joined Ace McCarleton of Vermont-based New Frameworks to talk about their panelized building innovations for the housing marketplace.  New Frameworks practices high performance natural building towards the construction of climate justice and regeneration.  Innovation is expressed in their home construction products and processes, their sourcing of materials, for sure.  But it's also in their em...

Glavel is a construction materials company manufacturing foam glass gravel, or in company parlance GLAVEL.  CEO Rob Conboy sat down with the Innova802 crew to discuss what it took to bring this technology to market in the US.  How are they leading in recycling and carbon sequestration, excellence in innovative construction materials how they plan for growth and what effect they can have contributi...

Lou Donaldson passed away on November 10, 2024.  In a career spanning more than seven decades, the alto saxophonist began as a stylist devotee to the bop of Charlie Parker, quickly evolving into a soulful and bluesy player which became his signature. Joan Watson Jones, host of the AWHY? Music feature The Jazz Room sat down to interview Lou in 2020 at Studio 952 in Harlem, New York City. In Part 1...

Our music feature, The Jazz Room returns for a feature of the great American composer George Gershwin.  Host Joan Watson Jones features many great musicians from a long list of recordings featuring the work of George Gershwin, one of the most prized composers of the American song book. For jazz musicians, Gershwin represents an endless source to be mined to create great improvisations and has been...