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Waterfront Toronto Considers Selling Naming Rights to Public Parks, Spaces
(July 8, 2011) Canadians have become accustomed to corporate sponsorship of buildings, the branding of sports stadiums and even the renaming of movie theatres after banks, but now there’s a push to expand the name game to public spaces – including Toronto’s Lake Ontario waterfront. Continue reading
Posted in Cities, Regulation
Tagged Commericial Alert, Corporate branding, Corporate naming, Corporate sponsorship, Lawrence Solomon, Naming rights, Naming rights strategy, Private corporation, Public buildings, Public spaces, Tax-payer owned, The Canadian Press, Urban Renaissance Institute, Waterfront, Waterfront Toronto
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Feeling Pretty Good About Your Choice to Purchase ‘Fair Trade’ Coffee? Don’t.
(July 6, 2011) Despite its name, fair-trade coffee isn’t necessarily “fair”. In this article, Erika Johnsen outlines the inconsistencies of the fair-trade business, specifically in relation to fair-trade coffee farmers. Continue reading
The Politics of Alternative Energy (3): The Need for Public Ownership of the Carbon “Idea”
(July 4, 2011) “If in the long run we are the makers of our own fate, in the short run we are the captives of the ideas we have created”. These words of economist and political philosopher Friedrich Hayek’s today resonate loudly in the carbon “idea” – that the West should fast-track a low-carbon economy no matter what the socio-economic cost. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Energy, Natural Resources, Political reforms, Taxation, Utilities
Tagged carbon, carbon emission targets, carbon emissions, carbon reduction goals, climate, CO2 issues, cost issues, decarbonisation, domestic fuel bills, fossil fuel energy, fuel poverty, green taxes, Lawrence Solomon, lower-carbon economy, Michael J. Economides, Peter C. Glover, renewable energy, Sam Laidlaw, utility cost, wind farms
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Lawrence Solomon: Supreme skeptics
(June 24, 2011) The justices of the United States Supreme Court this week became the world’s most august global warming skeptics. Continue reading
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