Month: December 2008

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December 2, 2008

A Solution for Canadian Parliament: Acknowledge The Long Tail

For those of you who don’t understand the Long Tail , check out what the concept’s creator, Steve Anderson, has to say about it . Generally, the idea is this:  we live in a world of fragmentation and being ‘number one’ is no longer as important as representing all opportunities in the economic (or social or political) spectrum. There’s really nothing new to the idea:  […]

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December 2, 2008

Nestle: Product Ban?

As the City of Toronto and other municipalities wrestle with ways to moderate the volume of waste resulting from plastic bottles, Nestle has been accused of engaging in potentially misleading advertising, at least according to the sources quoted in this article . For me, it seems like the answer is really quite simple:  stop drinking bottled water (or other liquids) . We’re very fortunate, in […]

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December 1, 2008

Financial Crisis and Ecological Amnesia

I’ve been using this blog to try to point out some of the flaws in getting the same old crew to repair the messes that they created in the first place.  Of course, to take a page from the Adbusters gang as they revved up Buy Nothing Day for last week, we also start to understand that the core of the problem is us.  Until […]

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December 1, 2008

What Was the Point of the Economic Statement

It seems the Conservative government has blinked and has eliminated several of the more contentious components of the economic statement from last Thursday.  John Baird said over the weekend that they won’t try to eliminate the right for public sector members to strike, nor would they eliminate public funding for campaign finance.  Of course, it wasn’t Harper or Flaherty making these statements.  It was Baird.  […]