…nt to look at and easy to breathe in. Green Business We set a goal when we opened our coworking space and started building our fiber network: 3,000 cars off the road. With fast internet, people can work from home. With great internet and a shared facility, local people — including Cruzio employees — can cowork in a professional environment without going over the hill or spending their workday under low ceilings and inefficient lights. That’s good…

…  078. Many of our older buildings were lost. Our Downtown/Pacific Avenue commercial area had been listed as a historical district, but is was delisted by the National Register of Historic Places because of the earthquake’s effects.   079. Businesses had to abandon their shops. Many set up in tents — and operated in tents for years after the quake.   080.   082. The levee by the river shows rifts 083. Hillsides collapsed 088. Ford’s department st…

…ort of your favorite chair. How, you ask? 1/ Head over to myaccount.cruzio.com or go to Cruzio.com and click the little credit card icon on the upper right. Next to the envelope. To the left of ‘Contact Us’. Above the Search bar. You’ll see it. 2/ Once you’re there, click ‘Login’ in the upper-left corner. 3/ If you’ve been here before and by some miracle remember your login and password, enter them and click ‘login’. If you remembered them right,…

…rnment grants and non-profit support, has been connecting rural low-income communities to high-speed internet. We’re using equipment and methods that didn’t exist 10, 5, or even 2 years ago to accomplish these jobs. We are ready to do much more. We’re using the same high-speed, high-quality technology that we’ve pioneered in more commercially viable parts of our network. We build efficiently, economically, and sustainably. More funding for digital…

…weigh well over a ton! About as heavy as a Mini Cooper. No other vegetable comes close. (What about fruit, you say? And technically the pumpkin is a fruit, so that is a fair question. Were you going to guess watermelon? No such luck. The largest watermelon ever grown in the US was 350.5 pounds.) Why? Good genes. The variety that grows so big is called the Atlantic Giant. It’s not good to eat — too watery. It’s not great to carve — it flattens out…

…their statements about equitable internet access and to contact them for upcoming funding. Money from the federal and state governments will be coming available in the next couple of years and congressional representatives have a lot of influence on where and how the funds are spent. Sadly for internet equity, we are losing a tremendous advocate in Santa Cruz County, Mark Stone. Stone was a strong and, at times, lonely voice in the State Assembly…