This article at FastCompany sums up why I will not shop at Wal-Mart. It is literally backstabbing a business owner. Please take your time and read the article. It’s essential for us to know what is going on, in order to keep our jobs in the future.
Fast Company: The Wal-Mart You Don’t Know” by Charles Fishman
As a kid and teenager, I never wanted to smile in photos. I always pulled faces and whatnot else. I thought it was funny, but it was frustrating to people taking the photo, ie. my parents.
I just found myself looking through the many pictures of missing people in Haiti on CBC’s website. It is truely shocking that so many of them will never be found. So many people, with many pretty smiles and fun lives, and so many more of their families left behind with beautiful memories of these people.
It makes me wonder, how do I want to be remembered? With one of my douchebag faces or with a smile. So from now on, I will ALWAYS smile like there is no tomorrow!
Please take a moment to look at those many beautiful people and pray for them and for their families! And do yourself a favor, smile like there is no tomorrow!
I took this photo from a “Cradle-to-Cradle” video. I think it sums up what is wrong with our cheap products industry right now!
Blue Arrow: Cheap Products
Green Arrow: Obviously Money
Red Arrow: toxic garbage (cheap products at the end of life cycle)
I just noticed a discussion over at GreenbuildingAdvisor.com weather Vinyl Siding is green or not. Why is this even a discussion? Here is the link to the “pro vinyl siding” side of the discussion.
I’m just going to copy and paste my comment here. Let me know what you think about it:
Why is there even a debate?
by Hans Eich
Hi,
I don’t quite understand why there is a debate in the first place. It’s not that Vinyl is getting any healthier buy discussing it. I think we are talking about health for people and the environment here.
This is not like a decision weather you want to eat baguette or croissants? No, this is like giving you the choice weather you want to eat a plastic loaf or a real bread.
Mike (Guertin), your link to the Vinyl Siding Institute is dead, but even without seeing it I can certainly assume that it was an argument pro vinyl siding. It’s obvious. Follow the money. They are not called the “healthy siding institute”. And this is where a lot of companies get it wrong. Why does the “Vinyl Siding Institute” not call themselves “The Institute for Healthy Siding”? They would not act as a lobby to all the siding companies that they get paid by anymore.
A company that made this very clear to me is the carpet manufacturer (I think they are called Shaw Floors). They realized that they are not selling a product but rather providing the service of warm cushy flooring. Putting it this way, they realized that they need to care about the air quality of the home that they are providing with their “carpet service” (they do take the carpet back after useage, so that it almost is like a service).
I think it’s time to rethink what we do. Are we just selling siding, or are we providing the service of keeping a house from rotting away, safe and warm?
Think about it.
Parrot was showcasing this at CES 2010. It’s a really neat “flying thing”. Are there going to be be legal issues with this though? With a built in camera this does not look to me like a toy anymore… well, I guess more like spy toy. What do you think about this though? Leave a comment!
Very intersting article by Julian Bleecker
Found through Swiss Miss
As we are all anxiously awaiting the new product announcement on January 27th 2010, I finally figured out what they are going to announce:
What? They do? Well, I might be pushing it. But this is a very interesting podcast episode of Treehugger Radio with founder Jay Rogers of Local Motors. Local Motors is pushing the limits of what we think car manufacturers are capable of. So without further or do, head on over the the article, listen to it on iTunes or listen to it directly online.
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