Month: September 2012
NYC Soda Ban
The soda industry spent more than $1M fighting a proposed ban by the Bloomberg administration on the sale of “supersized” sodas in NYC. The ban was approved today by the NYC City Council marking a major policy victory for Bloomberg. The soda lobby and many New Yorkers’ claim that this policy represents an infringement of the… Read More
Tagged with bloomberg corn subsidies nyc soda ban soda tax
What We Talk About When We Talk About Sustainability
Anytime a movement gains traction within a culture, it develops its own vocabulary, and as those key words and phrases become increasingly widespread, their meaning often becomes blurred. In the late nineties, as Silicon Valley was positively exploding, there pre-fixes ‘e,’ ‘i,’ ‘techno’ and ‘cyber’ seemed to pop-up in the unlikeliest of places. I worked… Read More
Tagged with education environmental education