Corporate Personhood: Taking Stock
Speaker: Jane Anne Morris, corporate anthropologist, and author of ‘Gaveling Down the Rabble: How Free Trade is Stealing Our Democracy’.
Jane Ann Morris
Wood Smoke Emission Reductions Through Public Education
After almost thirty years of telling people to burn only dry wood and not to let their fires smolder, we should admit that such general instructions don’t work very well. I speak from experience, having co-authored the following statements decades ago in a booklet that was widely distributed. . .
What is Community Wind?
More than 1,800 homes in Northwest Ohio are powered by wind thanks to Ohio’s first large scale community wind project—part of a new, growing trend in alternate energy.
Redefining Sustainable Agriculture at PASA
One almost expected to see a Monsanto executive among the honored guests and presenters at the 19th annual Farming for the Future Conference held Feb. 4 – 6 in State College, Pa. After all, the St. Louis-based agri-giant was recently named “Company of the Year” by Forbes magazine. And in its well-funded advertising campaign that strategically targets such media outlets as National Public Radio, Monsanto proclaims itself to be the very champion of sustainability.
Zero Sum Game
Some of you may know that over the last 3 or 4 years, I wrote extensively about our precarious oil supply. Since then I’ve broadened my outlook in so far as it’s hard to choose among all the potential disasters on our doorstep.
Deep thought – Feb 23
-Lakoff on Real Reason vs False Reason
-Letters from Amok: The State of the World in Pen and Ink
-The ICPR Primer
Peak oil, prices, and supplies – Feb 23
-Goldilocks and the three fuels
-Israel Urges Iran Oil Embargo Even Without U.N. Okay
-Why Peak Oil Is The Only Thing That Can Stop The Chinese Export Deluge
State of the states – Feb 23
-Feinstein’s Water Bomb
-School districts ax teachers, blame state for financial meltdown
-No money? No library certification in Hull
-Recession Tightens Grip on State Tax Revenues
The Bloom Box: An Energy Breakthrough?
Fuel cell company Bloom Energy made quite a stir over the weekend, with a spot on the CBS “Sixty Minutes” TV program in the United States (The Bloom Box: An Energy Breakthrough? – see the link for the video and transcript).
The Power of Local
The 2009 holiday season was a tough one for retail businesses. In November, their sales increased just 1.8 percent over low 2008 numbers—failing to keep pace with inflation. December was worse, with sales actually falling three tenths of a percent from 2008.
Sustainability, lasting recovery, and other myths
For the world economy to be considered sustainable; that is, to reach and maintain a decent level of living for the entire global population for a century or two, the use of renewable resources should not exceed sustainable yields; pollution levels should not surpass the environment’s absorbing/regenerating capacity; the drawdown of nonrenewable resources should decline in proportion with the depletion of stocks; and environmental goals and technical progress helping to achieve them ought to gain universal application.
Into the Widening Gyre: Social Marketing Meets Peak Oil (book review)
While reading Gerald Zaltman and Lindsay Zaltman’s Marketing Metaphoria: What deep metaphors reveal about the minds of consumers, (MM), I recalled a healthcare consultant who told me, “You really should market peak oil, but you’ve got to give folks some good news to win them over.” I laughed and replied, “Are you kidding? I’m not selling whiter teeth”…
