November 2008
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Road Trip, indeed
“Car dealers, parts makers, union leaders and others hoping to convince lawmakers that the industry is an indispensable piece of the economy are planning a caravan to Washington in early December.” (via NYT)
“It started with a small group of 50 or 100 vehicles driving from Detroit to D.C. But by Monday morning there were thousands of e-mails, phone calls and even handwritten...
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Road Trip
“The CEOs of GM, Ford and Chrysler may have told Congress that they will likely go out of business without a bailout yet that has not stopped them from traveling in style, not even First Class is good enough.” via ABCnews
“It’s almost like seeing a guy show up at the soup kitchen in high-hat and tuxedo.” Rep. Gary L. Ackerman of New York via NPR
Totally despicable,...
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Imagine
If you’ve read or heard much about Wal-Mart, you likely know the magnitude of its power. If it were an independent country, it would have the 23rd largest economy in the world - at that size, Wal-Mart can certainly influence some major change. A great example of this is the deodorant story from the early 90s.
Prior to the early 90s, deodorant came boxed. The plastic deodorant stick was...
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142 Liters
of water go into making one Starbucks latte, says the CEO of WWF in a keynote speech at the Net Impact Conference.
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“Even if growth in global demand was at zero for the next 22 years, in order to...”
– Fatih Birol, author of the IEA’s World Energy Outlook which published today.
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