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Rethinking B2C: Business to (Carbon) Consumer

by monkchips on May 18, 2009 · 2 comments

in Carbon emissions

I was thinking about the term business to consumer (B2C) the other day. I am not a huge fan of the term “consumer” in the digital era- we’re all content creators after all. But I just realised that my notion that we are all producers is even more true in terms of carbon footprint. Whether [...]

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Biofuels – the bad and the good!

by Tom Raftery on July 4, 2008 · 5 comments

in biofuels

Photo Credit jurvetson
The Guardian revealed today that it has obtained a World Bank report claiming that biofuels are responsible for 75% of the recent surge in food prices – far more than was previously thought.
Rising food prices have pushed 100m people worldwide below the poverty line, estimates the World Bank, and have sparked riots from [...]

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High oil prices are a good thing!

by Tom Raftery on May 29, 2008 · 8 comments

in oil

photo credit: Lori Greig
I wrote a post a couple of weeks back saying that the sooner oil reaches $200 per barrel, the better. Unsurprisingly, it generated a bit of comment!
So I was mighty chuffed to read Thomas Friedman’s superb Op-Ed in the New York Times yesterday where he made a very similar argument.
Thomas said:
there [...]

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