Philanthropic Consumption: Starbucks’ (RED) Campaign and What They Should’ve Done
Starbucks has just launched a campaign. Here is a video and paragraph taken directly from the (RED) campaign website.
The much anticipated Starbucks Holiday beverages will turn (RED)™ from November 27 through January 2. Customers’ daily visit to Starbucks can directly help saves lives in Africa. For every purchase of a [...]
Stephanie says:
The Big Sell Out showcases the abstract phenomenon of privatization, depicted in stories about very concrete human destinies around the globe. The documentary tells tragic, tragicomic but also encouraging stories of the everyday life of people, who day by day have to deal with the effects of privatization politics, dictated by anonymous [...]
The Arctic Playground – Shouldn’t we do our homework before we start playing?
For some a voyage through the Canadian Arctic may be one of the most exciting and thrilling adventures one could dream of: indeed, hundreds of kilometres of virgin land and cold vastness have challenged thousands of explorers in the past. Many of these arctic adventurers shared a common goal: to seek a navigable passage [...]
This is a picture of a group of christians praying to the golden bull on wall street. They’re asking God for money to rain down from the heavens. Seriously. From the group’s website:
“We are going to intercede at the site of the statue of the bull on Wall Street to [...]
700,000,000,000 – approximate number of US dollars proposed in the bail out bill (link).
0.7 – percentage of GDP agreed upon in 1970 to be set aside for foreign aid. Often sited as an appropriate funding goal to help meet the UN’s Millenium Development Goals. (link).
0.16: actual GDP percentage of aid given [...]
Many of you are likely somewhat familiar with the mortgage fiasco currently underway in the United States. This year alone, the USG has bailed out three major banks using tens of billions of taxpayer dollars. However, from now on it looks like US banks are stuffed:
When Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. flew to New [...]
Too bad it’s happening today. If anyone is attendance, I would love to hear how it went – why not write up a summary and have it posted to Terry*? To do so, email these folks.
THE BOTTOM BILLION (VIDEO)
PAUL COLLIER
MARCH 11TH, 2008
“The Bottom Billion – Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It”
(March 11th, 2008, Sty-Wet-Tan Hall, UBC First Nation’s Longhouse)
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Global poverty is actually falling quite rapidly for about 80% of the world. The real crisis lies in a group [...]
from this NYT article
There’s a neat article in the NYT covering the Easterman paradox – or why wealth isn’t associated happiness (that is, apparently now). Check it out – interesting read.
Microcredit Isn’t Right for Everyone
Mr. Wile E. Coyote
Rural Route 99
El Paso County, Texas
Dear Mr. Coyote,
Further to our telephone conversation of earlier this week, please be advised that you are no longer eligible for assistance under the West Texas Development Fund.
This was not an easy decision. As the state’s first and only [...]
Professor John Anthony Allan, Terry* Salutes You!
The Sotckholm Water Prize, often considered the ‘Nobel Prize” of the environmental sciences, was awarded to Professor John Anthony Allan this year for his innovative “Virtual Water” concept. According to the Stockholm International Water Institute press release:
Professor Allan pioneered the development of key concepts in the understanding and communication of water [...]
This one is primarily the Liu Institute for Global Issues’ baby, but Terry is a partner here, and we invite you all to check out Paul’s talk on March 11th, 1:30pm at the Sty-Wet-Tan Hall, UBC Longhouse. (Also free, also first come first served, this one, however, is also open to the public).
Who [...]
FREE MONEY!
… and now that I have your attention! READ ON!
Workers of the World Relax: The Simple Economics of Less Industrial Work
Conrad Schmidt, 2006
Book Review
We are killing ourselves to make useless crap. Crap, in its various forms–by which I primarily mean mass-produced consumer goods–takes up resources and energy and redirects it all, essentially, to a pile in some obscure corner of your house. There it collects dust and periodic interest for about [...]
I remember hearing this before – but apparently this is the first major American study of its kind:
“The Rising Cost of Low-Energy-Density Foods” (Monsivais and Drewnoski, 2007; J. Americ. Diet. Assoc. 107: 2071-2076; if your university has a subscription, you can access the full article here, and here’s the press [...]
A Local Food Feast
For the first time in my three years living in Vancouver, I was able to return for (American) Thanksgiving to my hometown of Pullman, in southeastern Washington. Every year, my family does a big Thanksgiving dinner at our house or at the affectionately named “Cooley Gulch Farms”. Jim and Zoe Cooley, who are like [...]
This talk is really quite remarkable. Larry hails from Stanford Law, and is an eminent authority on copyright, particularly as it pertains to this crazy world of Web2.0
Here’s what wiki says about consumerism:
Consumerism is the equating of personal happiness with the purchasing of material possessions and consumption.
Just so you know, today (Nov 23rd) is a day-long moratorium (and called Buy Nothing Day) on consumer spending: a day to think about the impact that our consumerist tendencies have on [...]
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STAND for Housing
Are you concerned about the increasing levels of homelessness in Vancouver? What about the fact that the government is not keeping the social housing promise it made when it accepted the 2010 Olympic bid?
This Saturday, there is a big STAND for housing at the Vancouver City Hall. Here`s the link to the facebook event, [...]