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Monthly Archives: February 2011
And the Oscar goes to…The Environment!
Even though neither of the films Gasland or Waste Land won the 2010 Oscar for Best Feature Documentary, their Academy Awards nominations form part of an evolving success story for environmental documentaries that has been unfolding these past five years. In …
Should Canadians Be Ashamed for Being a Petro State?
Some of you may have read recently that Canada is now a Petro state. Barrie McKenna writes, “Canada’s fortunes – and its currency – are now more closely tethered to oil than any other industry, including autos, forest products or …
From Jasmine Revolution to oil shockwave
For most people outside of the North Africa and the Middle East, the Jasmine Revolution has mainly manifested in our TV news programmes with pundits expounding the role played by Facebook, Twitter and Google in facilitating the revolutionary wave that …
Social Media Marketing and Environmental Sustainability
Social media sites have changed the way we communicate, not only by connecting people, but by providing valuable promotion opportunities. Companies cannot afford to avoid this powerful marketing channel, according to research from Cone, Americans now expect companies to have a …
A Liberating (but Damned Uncomfortable) Conversion
As a poet, novelist, essayist, farmer, and thinker on matters agrarian, Wendell Berry needs no introduction. But he is not a professional economist, not a guild member with a Ph.D. union card. Nor does he claim to be such. In …
The Growth of Social Media as an Increasingly Important Vehicle for the Environment
The rapid growth of social media has made it a revolutionary force for prosocial change. Facebook is a great illustration of this rapid growth. In less than seven years Facebook has accrued more than 500 million users. This gives Facebook …
CSR and Social Media – Part 1
In my previous blog on CSR and WikiLeaks, I suggested that social media may be a new platform for social activism. There are some, like Tipping Point author Malcolm Gladwell, who are sceptical. In his article for The New Yorker, subtitled …
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Will Poor People Freeze Next Year?
At first I thought it was a political ploy. President Obama proposed cutting $2.6 billion from the Low Income Home Energy Assistance program (LIHEAP), a 50% reduction in funding from last year. Did he think that proposing cuts for poor …
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