Daily Money

Cyber Monday, Green Gift Monday, Small Business Saturday, Black Friday, alas I know not what to think, numbers, rescues packages, buy... spend... it's non stop. Is it worse this year? Or is it me? Aging? It isn't even December yet. Spend more, waste more, heat the earth up more, poor polar bears rummaging around Churchill waiting for the ice losing 15 pounds a year. Makes me sick. I had to spew, I'm just as bad though as I type on my Mac, although it is a year old with my iPhone also a year old. I'll keep them till they wear out. My plan is for developing local ecomomies with local food products as soon as I finish this MBA.

Freakonomics

I wonder what Malcolm Gladwell and Kim W Chan think of Steven D. Levitt's views on the falling crime rate in New York City and the rest of North America for that matter

Blue Ocean Strategy

Blue Ocean Strategy

This book is a must read for anyone thinking of starting a new business

What does pulling plug on Fish Lake mine portend for Potash decision? - The Globe and Mail

What does pulling plug on Fish Lake mine portend for Potash decision? - The Globe and Mail
Yes for the federal government, citizens should not have to choose between work and a healthy environment

CBC News - British Columbia - 1 B.C. mine rejected but another OK'd

CBC News - British Columbia - 1 B.C. mine rejected but another OK'd
Hawes doesn't want to give up but Prentice has stepped in and it's a victory for the Tsilhquot'in First Nation

CBC News - British Columbia - B.C. prison, hospital meals should be local: report

CBC News - British Columbia - B.C. prison, hospital meals should be local: report

I think we are getting somewhere here. 

Walmart to Get Into Local Food

Walmart promises to buy 9% local food for their stores by 2015. Poor farmers....

Local Food & Products

What about local food, GMO's According to the American Academy of Environmental Medicine, several animal studies revealed a long list of disorders resulting from consumption of GMOs, including:

• infertility
• immune dysregulation
• accelerated aging
• dysregulation of genes associated with cholesterol synthesis
• faulty insulin regulation
• cell signaling
• and protein formation, and changes in the liver, kidney, spleen and gastrointestinal system.

More than 70% of the foods on our supermarket shelves contain derivatives of the eight GM foods on the market soy, corn, oil from canola and cottonseed, sugar from sugar beets, Hawaiian papaya, and a small amount of zucchini and crook neck squash. Most bird seed and livestock feeds contain GMO ingredients.
With local food you can at least check that there aren't GMO's. You are supporting a local economy.

Taseko Mines Ltd.'s Prosperity Gold and Copper Mine proposal in an area outside of Williams Lake, B.C

Is the BC Government listening to the Tsilhquot'in First Nation when they reject the mine. Minister Hawes has supported Taseko Mines Ltd.'s Prosperity Gold and Copper Mine proposal in an area outside of Williams Lake, B.C., and the native group said he has strongly criticized the local Tsilhquot'in First Nation for "putting a lake before their kids." Jobs in a mine, modern living, does modern white culture really have the answers for First Nations people?

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/10/31/bc-randy-hawes-ubcic-resignation.html#ixzz143l0abBF