More on “bridge building”

And while we’re pontifexing…
Let’s build some bridges between:
GLOBAL PROBLEMS      and WORK OPPORTUNTIES
In a most gentle way, we’ve got some issues fellow Earthlings. I blog about them frequently (although not recently)…
How we move, how we eat, how we think, how we share (or don’t), how we consume…. They’re all major complex problems that are leading [...]

How did this happen? Where to go from here? Still pondering the “growth” question.

I was sitting at the dinner table a couple of weeks ago with Finns, Americans and Indians overlooking a beautiful sunset on the Finnish lake. I was the youngest of the bunch and all were highly educated people. The conversation turned to what the Americans thought about the credit crunch and how we ended up [...]

WHO controls the internet? (And WHY we should probably care about the answer)

What a great question. It’s the subject of a new book out Who Controls the Internet?: Illusions of a Borderless World (Jack Goldsmith, Tim Wu). Haven’t bought it yet, but is definitely there on my reading list -pushing to the top even.
Why is this such an important question? I’ve been thinking about [...]

A plea for refill stations at the grocery store

I was delighted to read the feeds this morning and see this in the Globe:
An open letter to Loblaw’s Galen Weston (Loblaws is a Canadian supermarket)

To: Galen G. Weston, executive chairman, Loblaw Cos. Ltd.
I’ve been thinking. I like what you’ve been doing with the whole President’s Choice Organics thing, but I’m not [...]

When life just works out

Go back a year.
I was done my undergrad and debating really hard what to do with my life. Go to Finland for my Masters? Or, stay in Canada and start my own thing? I’ve had that entrepreneurial itch for a few years at least and after the mesh conference (which I sadly missed this year) [...]

More about food

Thought this talk was highly relevant for the post and comments about food, and it’s from my favourite website…TED of course.
In this fiery and funny talk, New York Times food writer Mark Bittman weighs in on what’s wrong with the way we eat now (too much meat, too few plants; too much fast food, too [...]

Some food for thought

Here’s my part 2 continued from the Chicken Little post. (Sorry, been away for a while… in Turkey (post coming soon) and was trying to figure out summer (another post on that i guess)).
So, a little late in the news… but, about the food shortage. (Late, but still so very pertinent)
For the short term [...]

Is it Chicken Little time?

What’s going on right now in the agriculture industry is scary to say the least.
I don’t mean for this to be a doomsday post, but I figured that I should write something on one of the most pressing issues facing society today. It’s such a multi-level problem that I need to write something to digest [...]

The milk bag boys

I wanted to write another post about Wal-Mart going green (which is making it harder for me to hate it…) but I’ll have to do that later.
For now, what I absolutely must show my international readers is this:
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Yes my friends, we drink our milk from bags!
(Loved [...]

Eat your veggies

As the old saying goes… you should “walk the walk if you’re going to talk the talk”.
The more you know, the more likely you’ll start paying attention to your “walk”.
I can’t say that I’m a perfect green consumer though. (Umm..who is?) I love clothes and yes, I still shop at H&M… I don’t always [...]