Apr 4, 2012 | buy positively, Musings
Here are a couple of good sound bites to throw back the next time friends, family members, or even strangers tell you we need super-chemicals and GMOs to feed the world: Chemical farming isn’t “feeding the world” now. Despite more than 70 years of...
Apr 3, 2012 | buy positively, Musings
theeconomist: Daily chart: which country consumes the most trees? The average American uses the paper equivalent of almost six 40-foot (12-metre) trees a year. In Belgium paper consumption is pushed up by the EU bureaucracy in...
Apr 3, 2012 | buy positively, Musings
unconsumption: poptech: The Ocean Conservancy, which organizes an annual International Coastal Clean-Up, has published its results in the 2012 Trash Index. You’re not imagining it: as the global population swells, tankers continue to leak oil, and plastic water...
Apr 2, 2012 | buy positively, Musings
Social enterprise is on fire today. Ambitious young guns all over the globe are leaving their cushy corporate jobs and shunning traditional career paths for a new kind of business: one that achieves both financial and public benefit. The idea of making a profit and a...
Mar 30, 2012 | buy positively, Musings
Mar 29, 2012 | buy positively, Musings
Food: Buy It with Thought. Cook It with Care. Don’t Waste...
