Building Community
Responses & Resilience – Feb 24
-The Power to Make a Difference, We All Have It
-Oberlin Island
-The Unemployed Now Have Their Own Union, and It’s Catching on Quickly
Deep thought – Feb 24
-Beyond Hope
-Avatar: The Prequel
-Competition is corroding our communities and self-esteem
Corporate Personhood: Taking Stock
Speaker: Jane Anne Morris, corporate anthropologist, and author of ‘Gaveling Down the Rabble: How Free Trade is Stealing Our Democracy’.
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.
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.
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
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
United States – Feb 22
-Environmental Advocates Are Cooling on Obama
-Is the Tea Party the Alternative Energy Party?
-Asia-Produced Ozone Making its Way to U.S., Study Finds
-Only 21% Say U.S. Government Has Consent of the Governed
-Unprepared and unplugged: Joe Stack and likely coming attractions
Peak textiles – Feb 22
-Prince Charles Tells Us to Get Woolly Again
-Farmer changes to whiter Lleyn sheep to get better price for wool
-US Consumer Watchdog Says Shoo to Bamboo Textiles
-Fashion Week Launches, What does green fashion really mean?
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”…
