Yet, even with all that practice, there is hardly any other everyday activity for which we are less prepared. Schools don't deem it important enough to teach; legislators pass laws, but don't provide money for enforcement; our parents' idea of teaching consumerism was a tut-tut when they thought we had spent frivolously. It sounds obvious, but we don't do our homework. We know we want a sofa, but we often don't think hard beforehand about the size we need, the colour that'll work, or the price we're willing to pay. We are glad to assist you in obtaining the information regarding the warranty of Sony products in the U.S. The limited warranties supplied with United States products are only valid in America," was the e-mail response on the issue. "Sony's limited warranty supplied with our...
They attribute this growth in large part to the adoption of these principles by several major public-sector pension plans. Helping out is the broad availability of SRI index mutual funds for the general public, adding to the funds traditionally available through SRI pioneers like Ethical Funds, Meritas and Acuity Funds, Ltd. The broad adoption is in large part thanks to the tireless dedication of Michael Jantzi, founder in 1992 of Jantzi Research and developer of the Jantzi Social IndexR in 2000. His Canadian equity index has given pension plans and mutual fund managers a proven methodology for selecting investee companies based on their industry ranking on those SRI criteria I mentioned. It has also outperformed the S&P/TSX Composite and the S&P/TSX 60 slightly since 2000. RB...
Again last night, I tuned to CBC Radio and there it was - a doomsday report about greenhouse gasses heating the Earth in record time. Happiness comes from a feeling of compassion for our fellow humans, love for our neighbours, no matter their political beliefs, and aiding those who need help - that brings happiness and only that.
Or maybe fingerprints, retinal scan, revision of your grade-three timetable ... even though we've developed "(O)ne of the most successful international relationships in the modern world" (Wikipedia). So we're in CR with absolutely no idea of how to get to our desired destination. We'd cabbed to the border deciding just to wing it -- a decision that sometimes works, but other times leaves you amply sampling the national beer in a border cafe, after being told that the last bus to Tamarindo left four hours ago. Rapidly punching the clutch from second to third we accelerated around sharp bends, doing our best to avoid sunbathing fate-testing iguanas. We followed a series of dirt roads down Costa Rica's Pacific peninsula through an undeveloped network of vegetation where you get directio...
Marketing and advertising researchers are at odds on whether standardized advertising messages and tools can be used across cultures. The dispute has heightened with the advent of globalization in which national boundaries become blurred. But if globalization has managed to cross geographical frontiers, its role in merging cultures and traditions is less discernible particularly in conservative societies like the oil-rich Arab Gulf states where massive oil revenues are fuelling consumerism leading to a surge in advertising budgets. The flow of petrodollars is bringing about dramatic transformations in these societies and their media landscape. This paper provides an overview of these transformations and their impact on advertising. It argues that despite globalization, the countries sti...
In North America, the arrival of the Beetle became the ultimate anti-establishment vehicle. People who could afford bigger, more luxurious cars, as well as those who couldn't, opted for the odd little rear-engined Volkswagen. In a society of conspicuous and rampant consumerism, the Beetle became the great equalizer that transcended both power and material possessions. Even the paid publicity for the Bug, brilliantly created by advertising agency Doyle, Dane and Bernbach, played up the car's minimalist approach, reducing most of the boastful sales messages created by the Big Three to dim and unbelievable rantings by comparison. The man responsible for creating the humble Beetle was also present at the birth of the Motor Age. Porsche's first vehicle to bear his name, the Lohner-Porsche, ...
Canadian storage markets are bursting at the seams as skyrocketing consumer demand drives the building of new facilities," writes Richard Leach in Inside Self Storage, the largest-circulation magazine for storage professionals in North America. "Over the past 10 years, there has been dramatic self-storage growth in nearly every province. Canadians, he goes on to say, were "slower to grasp the self-storage concept" than Americans. But today developers in this country have discovered "the motherlode of gold" as they scramble to provide more storage facilities. It's a worrisome trend for Winnipegger Mark Burch, author of Simplicity: Stories and Exercises for Developing Unimaginable Wealth. Through our excessive consumerism "we are smashing the body and shedding the blood of the greatest ...
With his retirement from federal politics, former NDP PM Bill Blaikie is being paid a huge annual pension. If Blaikie lives to be 75 years old, it is estimated he will have collected over $3.38 million from this political pension. But I guess that just isn't sufficient for old Bill. Nope, can't make ends meet on that paltry pension, so Bill has felt it necessary to move in and wrestle away the Elmwood NDP nomination from a couple of younger NDP staffers. Bravo, Bill, that's showing that good old NDP one-for-all, all-for-one, socialist spirit. As a person who works in downtown Winnipeg, I was pleased to read about the financial commitment made by all three levels of government in support of the skywalk expansion project. However, as a wheelchair user who relies on the skywalk to get to a...
...'t been turned into a hideous over-consumerism fest. VANESSA FRIESEN. Lockport. Copyright F.P. Ca...
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