By Rapid Transition Alliance Staff, Rapid Transition Alliance
There are new calls to apply the lessons learned from the successful campaign to end tobacco advertising to ‘high carbon’ products and lifestyles, and to ‘stop adverts fuelling the climate emergency‘.
By Bart Hawkins Kreps, An Outside Chance
A flood of recent analysis discusses the abuse of personal information by internet giants such as Facebook and Google. Some of these articles zero in on the basic business models of Facebook, and occasionally Google, as inherently deceptive and unethical. But I have yet to see a proposal for any type of regulation that seems proportional to the social problem created by these new enterprises.
By Mark Hand, Climate Progress
The electric utility sector’s top lobbying group is teaming up with fossil fuel trade associations as part of an effort to intensify the industry’s campaign against citizen and environmental groups opposed to fracking and new natural gas pipelines.
By Rob Hopkins, Transition Network
Advertising Shits In Your Head (no author is given), is a pocket-sized book, but it’ll burn a hole in any pocket you put it in. It’s a powerful tirade against advertising and what it does to our minds, to our culture, to our planet.
By Bart Hawkins Kreps, An Outside Chance
There isn’t much news in most community newspapers these days.
By Rob Hopkins, Transition Culture
I have sometimes been asked "if you had a prime time TV advertising slot to promote Transition, what would you put on it?"
By Rob Hopkins, Transition Culture
We're all far too sensible to be influenced by advertising, right?
By Resilience.org Staff, Resilience.org
•The Gift of Death •The more we hate it, the more it agrees with us. How advertising turned anti-consumerism into a secret weapon •Should We Prioritize Measuring Happiness?
By Michel Bauwens, P2P Foundation
The thirst for real democracy is a thirst to be free. It is the spirit that drives us to find our true aspirations within.
By Brian Davey, Feasta
For billions of people nature and the eco-system have become “out of sight and out of mind”.
By David Bollier, David Bollier blog
Nowadays media feeds are everywhere -- on building facades, billboards, hotel lobbies, restaurants, elevators and even gas pumps.
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
The name of the popular American television series "Mad Men"comes from the nickname given to those who worked in New York City's advertising agencies in the 1950s. The nickname came from the advertising profession itself whose members felt that one had to be a little mad to work on Madison Avenue.