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Posted in econ 101, philosophy of $, praxis, tips on Jan 12th, 2010
Remember that delicious movie, The Devil Wears Prada? My favourite scene was the one where Miranda scorningly points out that while it may be politically correct amongst intelligentsia to dismiss fashion, at the end of the day, the colours we all select from our re-used, recycled clothing were determined months and months before by the [...]
Posted in philosophy of $, praxis, smart shopping on Dec 17th, 2009
So having tweeted and facebook statussed Copenhagen multiple times daily, I was increasingly uncomfortable with the fact that I’m flying to Vancouver for Christmas. Emissions, much? (well, 0.7 tonnes to be precise)
Fortunately my friend and former colleague Lucinda pointed out that I could purchase carbon offsets through Offsetters.ca.
They have a handy calculator and payment [...]
Posted in philosophy of $, pleasure of $, smart shopping on Dec 16th, 2009
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Posted in econ 101, philosophy of $ on Dec 14th, 2009
Live-blogging cnbc’s airing of Buffett and Greed responding to questions from Columbia Business school
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Q: Was Greed at the root of the financial crisis?
Buffett: We’ve got the engine that was ever devised. Greed will continue. But what drives the system is the equality of the opportunity.
Gates: The best systems are ones [...]
Posted in philosophy of $, praxis, smart shopping on Dec 5th, 2009
I can list the money books I wholeheartedly endorse on one hand. A new one just got added to the list, and I’ve got one copy to give away to a reader, or someone you care about, who would benefit from some thinking about money.
The Secret Language of Money is not The Secret redux, its [...]
Posted in philosophy of $, praxis on Dec 1st, 2009
I found this Radical (my word) Advent Calendar on the Toronto Sun. Yay, you, Suzanne Elston, for writing this.
It reminds me of one of my favourite quotes, by a remarkable Presbyterian priest/author named Frederick Buechner:
“Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else’s skin. It’s the knowledge [...]
Posted in econ 101, philosophy of $, praxis on Oct 15th, 2009
I love when disparate elements converge. Yesterday, a twitter pal asked for info on investing ethically. Today is Blog Action Day and the topic is Climate Change. (check out Gordon Brown’s blog post on the topic, or The White House’s post, er, but they’re not much better than mine – wicked grin) And the rapidly [...]
Posted in Life In Yellowknife, philosophy of $, praxis, smart shopping on Sep 19th, 2009
I’ve been a bit glum recently.
Bono summed things up for me with the query:
When you look at the world
What is it that you see?
People find all kinds of things
That bring them to their knees.
What I’m seeing up here in the north, increasingly, is just how complicated is the relationship between Canada and First Nations peoples. [...]
Posted in econ 101, philosophy of $ on Sep 6th, 2009
Photo Credit: Laffy4K
I’m going in to my office for a couple hours tomorrow for a project that came up at 4:30pm on Friday. I was caught completely off guard when my manager encouraged me to enter the hours into peoplesoft so that I get paid overtime.
Maybe it’s because I don’t have kids, or maybe [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, philosophy of $, praxis on Aug 30th, 2009
Hi all –
I joined the green party several months ago. I think it’s to everybody’s benefit that their platform – the environment especially, and also social justice – is at least on the formal political radar.
Plus, I’ve always had a thing for the underdog. They’ve made a LOT of ground in the past few years, [...]
