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green & environment

• Conscious Thoughts, green & environment, sustainability

  Micky D’s going green?

  05.21.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  There are many things I think about when I think of McDonalds, and being green isn’t one of them. According to an article on Sustainable Life Media, McDonalds has released their green – sustainable best practices, with the urging that their customers vote for “best of the best”. The report apparently highlights over 80 best [...]

• Conscious Thoughts, green & environment, political activism

  Alarmist buzz for the bees

  02.08.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  As a societal phenomenon, the western/wealthy countries advocate their environmental consciousness and take pride from spending ecologically. In spite of their efforts to reduce their footprint, to recycle in order to sustain the biomass, they feel powerless in contemplating the slow degradation of Earth.
  After the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (“mad cow”) that decimated [...]

• Conscious Thoughts, green & environment

  the origin of the world

  02.02.09 | Permalink | 3 Comments

   Where do we come from is a haunting question to comprehend who we are, our role and interactions with the universe!  But the solution, as we don’t know it, is closer than we may think!
  Torn apart between two main factions, the pragmatic science and the fervous religion, between the original chaos preceeding its organic birth and the birth of  [...]

• Conscious Thoughts, green & environment

  Green or Greenwashing.. the very best wrap up in 2008

  01.15.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Just had to repost this, for the most part, these are unbelievable. The origonal post can be found here.
  The Greenwash Brigade
  2008’s greenwashes of the year
  The Greenwash Brigade brings you our favorite greenwashes of 2008. Some good, some bad, some just plain funny — and in no particular order. (Vote for your favorite in the comments.)

  Fiji [...]

• Conscious Thoughts, green & environment, political activism

  goodwin, the “on” demand green tech

  12.10.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  With the recent increase of the gas at the pump, drivers look at biodiesel and hybrid cars as their next investment in matter of efficiency at the consumption. As the environment conscious people regard at the Prius as the car of the year, with Goodwin playing the Da Vinci or the killjoy of the automobile [...]

• Conscious Thoughts, green & environment, political activism

  water, water nothing but water…

  12.08.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Danced and sung by Gene Kelly, venerated by countries with a minimal hydrometry, covering 70% of the surface of the earth, water as the symbol of fertility, life is welcomed and praised everywhere but in …Venice.
  What comes to mind when we see present time pictures of Venice is who could have guessed that the city [...]

• Conscious Thoughts, green & environment, political activism, sustainability

  the water war

  12.07.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  The anger started in Bolivia where the people felt stripped out of their “material inheritance and natural resources”, and will definitely soon inflame the world. It’s official now Europe is preparing to a massive attack on individual tap water consumption. Great Britain launched the offensive in proposing to tax the tap water upon the volume consumed. [...]

• Branded Adventures, green & environment

  Wear What We Were

  11.18.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  In its third year, the Junk to Funk fashion show has found a home in Portland. This is by no means a Hollywood, diamond encrusted, red carpet event. It is not a part of fashion week in New York. The designers showcased do not reside in the lap of exclusive fashion houses in Italy. Each [...]

• Conscious Thoughts, brand strategy, green & environment, political activism, sustainability

  the awakening of China

  11.12.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  To the example of Europe (the 30 glorious in France), of the USA (the post-war era), China is awakening after too many years of sleep. Foreseen in the early eighties by the economists, its ascension will be at a lightning speed. Well augured and considering the extraordinary events that are the global warming and the [...]

• Conscious Thoughts, green & environment, political activism

  a reevaluation of our values

  11.12.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Since the specter of the 1929 Great Depression shook the American economy with last October stock exchange crash, conscious consciences awakened with a new set of cards, of regulations to play. Real estate business, banking institutions, emblems of a former vivid and prosperous economy (General Motors’ shares reached the bar of less than $3 yesterday) [...]

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