Mandatory recycling in Vancouver?
Over at ChangeEverything.ca, Kate is asking whether you support mandatory recycling in Vancouver – including fines for miscreants. I’m voting “yes”, but with a heavy heart. Why is it so damned hard to buy things that don’t need throwing away...Turn out the lights tomorrow
There’s this French initiative that has caught on well beyond the country’s borders: turning off our lights for five minutes in the evening on Thursday, February 1st. (That’s 10:55 am to 11:00 am our time here in B.C.)It’s meant to draw...Small victories: recycled toilet paper at London Drugs
If you’re downtown over the next few days, and you want to make a little difference, you might want to drop into the London Drugs branch at Granville and Georgia and ask for the recycled toilet paper. Dawn Buie did, and describes what happened on...Something they won’t be mentioning at Best Buy or Laura Secord this Christmas…
Buying stuff is like voting (except with money, they’re more careful with the counting). Buy a company’s product, and you’re implicitly endorsing the choices they made to get that product to market at a particular price. Hence the furor over blood...Hockey player fired for not signing flag for troops
Hockey player fired for not signing flag for troops: A junior hockey player has been ousted from the Saint John Sea Dogs after he did not sign a Canadian flag that the team was sending to troops in Afghanistan. Dave Bouchard — a 20-year-old from Jonquière, Que.,...
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Public speaking and speechwriting: the essential guides
Looking for advice on public speaking, speechwriting and leadership communications? Here are some of my most comprehensive posts, on topics that people ask me about most often.
