Richmond's Game Changers - You Pick 'Em

The Huffington Post has had more than 1,000 responses to their HuffPost Game Changers awards to honor and celebrate 100 people who are using new media to reshape their fields and change the world. Naturally, that set to me to thinking about Richmond and who was doing something similar -- specifically in terms of shifting the way people in the region think about the relationship between new technology, innovation, business and community.

So let me plagiarize THP for a moment:

We want your suggestions about the innovators, visionaries, and leaders who are harnessing the power of new media to change the game -- to change the way we look at the world and live in it.

I'll shift the field a bit with some different categories than THP.

Buttermilk & Molasses wants to know who the game changers in the Richmond region are in the following categories:

• News and Media
• Regional Cooperation and Vision
• Environmental/Green Movement
• Nonprofit/Community Service
• Arts and Culture
• Education
• Advertising and Marketing
• Politics
• Business

Using the comments section, tell us WHO you are nominating for WHICH category and WHY you think they're a game changer. Who is doing something that is shifting the way we think and act in the Richmond region?

To make life more fun, tweet this or post it to your Facebook page, or write a blog post about it.

Game on.

Comments

[john m]

How about Ross&Scott for "News and Media", for both aggregating the community news blogs and finding a way to create the beginning of a revenue stream for the community news blogs?

[Rebecca]

Environmental/Green Movement: Doug Cole and designforum for bringing a sophisticated, granola-free brand of New Urbanism to Richmond and the region

Arts and Culture: John Bryan for revitalizing (and rebranding) the Arts Council of Richmond and beginning to bring the city's notoriously contentious "art tribes" together.

Politics: Founders of United Virginia for using new media and post-election momentum to overturn Virginia's perennial "Red State" status.

[john m]

The folks at HandsOn Greater Richmond in Nonprofit/Community Service for making it easy for people to volunteer for so many different projects.

[Copeland Casati]

Environmental/Green Movement: @fullscale Scott Kyle is a local green building architect & founding member of Richmond's James River Green Building Council, www.jrgbc.org; Green Drinks (@rvagreendrinks and http://groups.google.com/group/richmondgreendrinks); gave Richmond its first solar sidewalk which celebrates 1708's InLight project, and much, much more. @ruralculture The Center for Rural Culture and Goochland Farmers Market preserves our local heritage and agricultural knowledge while creating vibrant access to local food and farmers. @tricyclegardens Tricycle Gardens connects children and urban neighborhoods with the skills and knowledge of how to produce their own food through their community garden outreach programs.

[john m]

Lisa Taranto and the folks at Tricycle Gardens in Environmental/Green Movement for their growing collection of community gardens across the city.