act:ualise | what we think

So The Guardian is to begin publishing exclusively to Twitter, which I can only assume will real-time article syndication compared to the existing RSS syndication which heaves 20-30 articles at fixed intervals throughout the day. Given the trouble that the newspaper publishing industries around the globe seem to be having we can safely assume plenty of [...]

Michael Pollan our new truth-about-food hero, who has done a great deal to bring attention to the Slow Food movement and the Locavore movement, is coming to Vancouver. He is most recently credited with influencing the Obama family with planting a vegetable garden at the White House. His only stop in Canada, he will be [...]

I’m a great believer in teams; we all have our horror stories about failing teams, some of us will even have had the good fortune to have worked in great teams. That said, great teams aren’t common nor are they easy to assemble or maintain; any great team will have it’s share of dirt along [...]

This is a long-overdue response to SavageSays’ excellent post rebutting the idea that protectionism (even if in the form of buying local or FairTrade) can ever be a good idea. He argues that buying local isn’t necessarily better for the environment, citing three pieces of research: A study by Lincoln University in New Zealand arguing [...]