Corporate Personhood: Taking Stock
Speaker: Jane Anne Morris, corporate anthropologist, and author of ‘Gaveling Down the Rabble: How Free Trade is Stealing Our Democracy’.
Building Community
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.
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”…
Transition – Feb 21
– Diversity
– Solidarity
– A former urbanite puts down green roots
– The easy pleasures of a simplified living space
A movement or an organization?
It’s really important to get that we’re not creating a movement. Directing, guiding, or nudging perhaps, but not creating. We need to supply the “thread” onto which to string all the “beads” of positive, resilience-oriented action
Envisioning sustainable communities (parts 1 and 2)
There is no more important question for us to grapple with than the question of how our community and larger society should be organized. We need to clarify what we mean by ‘community’ and think about what design we should strive for, because if you want sustainability and equality at the end of the day, you have to build them in at the start.
The psychology of the ‘Space Cowboy’ prepper
Here is a post offering hope to those who consider themselves ’spaced out,’ ADHD (attention deficit), scattered, air-headed, a Space Cowboy, forgetful, inconsistent, unreliable and the like. There IS hope for you, and you can prep.
Haiti redux – Feb 18
-UN alarmed at lack of global support for Haiti’s immediate agricultural needs
-Haiti Is Open For Business
-Haiti: A Creditor, Not A Debtor
-US Brags Haiti Response Is A ‘Model’ While More Than A Million Remain Homeless In Haiti
Economics – Feb 18
-China losing appetite for U.S. debt
-Metal prices rising strongly again
-Collapse of the euro is ‘inevitable’: Bailing out the Greek economy futile, says FRENCH banking chief
-Goldman Goes Rogue – Special European Audit To Follow
-The Making of a Euromess
-Did peak oil cause the present financial crisis?
Biofuels – Feb 18
-Controversy mounts in EU over fall-out from biofuel
-British Airways to fly jets on green fuel made from London’s rubbish by 2014
-BA’s biofuels plans mean a lot of garbage: the problem of “peak waste”
