Archive for July, 2006

Hard to blog here

Honestly, its near impossible to find time at this conference to get away and blog about it.   It goes from 7:30AM to 10:30 PM… and the entire time you’re in classes or meeting interesting new people.  Extremely interesting— and catalytic.
The opening keynotes yesterday were fabulous (I thought), though other people had their own ideas about [...]

Hostel living in Toronto

This is the first time I’ve ever stayed in a hostel. Ever. I know, its crazy. Most people are living in the Sheraton Centre in downtown Toronto, because that is where the actual conference is taking place. But this hostel (The Clarence Castle) is really nice, I’m glad [...]

World Future Society Conference in Toronto

I wish I could say I had the free time to be a prolific enough blogger… to apologize to my wide reading audience and tell them that I am going out of town to a conference in Toronto and that’s why I won’t be able to blog for the next few days.
But, since the place [...]

Is Work/life balance bunk?

This entry is a follow up to Kar’s comment on my last post about Americans having no friends.   Kar alleged that the reason for the lack of friends and bonding opportunities is that work consumes our lives as Americans.   I thought this was interesting so I wanted to explore it more and find out if [...]

Americans don’t have friends, apparently.

According to a recent study, Americans don’t have as many friends as they did 20 years ago. Most of the people on this survey said they either had 0, 1 or 2 friends! No wonder docs prescribe so much Zoloft in this country.
Anyway, this article made me wonder what the implications of [...]

Healthwashing: Akin to Greenwashing?

I know that most people who happen to stumble upon this blog probably don’t speak German, but Google Translation works well enough for you to know that this company, Karlsberg, is marketing beer (bier) to women under the pretense that it is actually healthy for them. There’s more. They’ve actually had [...]

Climate Change, continued

Climate expert Dr. Mark Trexler gives us the straight scoop on climate change.
He says we have to look into the “sciensocioeconomic” issues before forming policy that is potentially disastrous to some industries.
But of course! In my book, “disaster” to some industries, while problematic in the near term, is necessary for sustainable [...]



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