The answer is simple.
Cruising with Madsu on a typical BC summer day.
It’s possible it gets better than this, but I doubt it
A little reminder of what to expect (again) in just a few months. And really just an excuse for me to futz with Final Cut Studio 2 which arrived this week.
28 dvd’s later, archive is done -
off the other side of the desk, writing DVD 4of28 as I archive a client project – 
to have Toast’s disc span function and a Sharpie handy
Working Excel sheets with Aretha and the Right Reverend Ray on the Tanoys makes it almost enjoyable
Hard times are hitting the media – sort of.
Canwest is laying off 560 employees across Canada – five percent of its staff.
Instead of pink slips, CBC’s giving out performance bonuses to execs.
The optics: bad. The timing: execrable.
South of the border, they’re moaning about layoffs in the publishing sector, including Al Gore’s Current TV.
Meanwhile, North of the border, Al Gore’s Current TV is expanding.
Imagine:
Just like us bloggers, mainstream media seems happy to publish whatever crosses their desk, no questions asked.
How else do you explain a March 2008 prediction of little change to BC’s hot housing market over the next 2 years, and the October 2008 story predicting a drop in house prices of 18 percent over the next two years.
BTW: I have a bridge on offer if you’re interested.
green and clean. mostly. my laundry room’s footprint is improving already http://tinyurl.com/6s49oc
I’ve just posted a podcast with Munu Hicken-Gaberria on VanGoGreen.
Munu’s the guy behind a line of eco-friendly laundry products. Not only are they eco-friendly, but they’re sold in glass jars that are re-usable.
A successful businessman from the UK who fell in love with BC’s natural beauty, he’s doing his bit to try to help the environment. I think you’ll find him interesting and inspiring. He’s based in Port Moody.
According to a CBC story, a candidate in the municipal election in Victoria is complaining there are too many people running for office.
A Victoria mayoral candidate says the large number of candidates running for council is turning the race into an unmanageable circus.
As if to underscore the point, one candidate turned up at a recent all-candidates meeting wearing a clown’s nose and hollering at voters.
Dean Fortin says with 35 people vying for eight seats on council, and eight candidates for mayor, all-candidates meetings have become difficult.
Dude.
It’s called democracy.
And given the track record of ‘legit’ candidates, I’d be careful about pointing fingers.
Sheesh
I’ve been pretty smug about my low carbon recreational footprint. My little sailboat Madsu does have an auxiliary outboard motor, but it’s only on for a short period of time while I motor in and out of the docks at Horseshoe Bay.
The rest of the time, Madsu is under sail.
I do have the need for electricity aboard – power for my running lights, GPS, cabin lights, marine radio and of course my stereo. For that I have small solar charger that keeps my two 12 volt batteries perfectly topped up – in the last 2 years I’ve not once had to plug in to the grid to recharge.
So, when I saw a story in Treehugger about a BC community using sailboats to lower their food carbon footprint, I was hooked on the idea.
It’s reallly the story about a community getting together to do something that’s healthy, rewarding, and dare I say, fun.
Almost 200 people agreed to pay 100.00 dollar each for grain grown by farmers using horses instead of tractors. And to reduce the carbon footprint even more – someone came up with the idea of delivering the crop by sailboat…
After the heritage varieties of wheat were grown, harvested and packaged, the grain shipment was loaded at Kuskanook Harbour on the eastern shore of Kootenay Lake. The sailors took one and half days to sail the length of the lake and into its western arm to a private dock in Nelson. CSA members were out in force to help unload the sailboats and collect their zero carbon grain, including red fife wheat, khorasan wheat, hard spring wheat, spelt and oats. (full story here)
Since I’m out sailing in Howe Sound and the Straight of Georgia a few times a week, I’d gladly carry some cargo aboard.
Who knows, maybe my pal James Glave would like some stuff brought over from the mainland to his Eco-Shed on Bowen Island.
So, if if you’ve got a few bags of grain, baked goods or any other stuff you’d like delivered somewhere on the south Coast – let me know.
Madsu’s out of the water now until spring, but I’d by happy to oblige and help lower your food chain impact.
< cross posted to VanGoGreen >
Finishing up some much needed changes to VanGoGreen.com
Worried about the global economy ?
Trying to find your way through the uncertainty ?
I have a hot tip for you on where the real growth is, during this, the worst economic crisis in 100 years.
When the sh*t hits the fan, you can do like the late Warren Zevon says and ‘send lawyers, guns, and money’.
Or.
You can do what every right thinking bureaucrat does:
B o o k a M e e t i n g.
Talk about an industry that’s taking off – there’s a veritable orgy of meetings planned. This weekend, there’s the world economic forum meeting in Dubai:
During the three-day Summit, the 700 participants of this interdisciplinary event will engage in interactive workshops and sessions to set priorities for the most compelling ideas for improving the state of the world, from groundbreaking areas of research to new and exciting developments and cross-cutting solutions to address the world’s challenges
Since fall is swiftly moving to winter, any good meeting planner knows the best thing is to have your meeting somewhere warm. Dubai may be hot, but Sao Paulo’s hotter…
Officials from the rich and the emerging countries of the G20 will gather in Sao Paulo this weekend to discuss the global financial crisis, but by the time they sit down, a much smaller meeting that has attracted far less attention may already have set the agenda.
Of course, any good meeting worth its salt is really just a precursor to another meeting. This weekend’s meeting in Dubai ? It’s really just a warm up for the other world economic forum meeting in January:
Against a background of economic uncertainty and global crisis, the World Economic Forum has announced record engagement from business, government and other leaders for the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2009 in January. More than 20 heads of state/government, including G8 countries, and close to 1,000 business leaders have already confirmed their participation, demonstrating the need for governments and business to sit together and focus on an agenda to restore sustained economic growth.
Of course, here in North America, we’re looking forward to the big meeting on November 15th called by George Bush (I dare say when you get a request in Outlook for a meeting featuring BUSH you’re sure to respond).
The beauty of this meeting business is that for every great meeting, there’s also a pre-meeting …
US President George W. Bush announced Thursday that he and president-elect Barack Obama would discuss matters like global economic turmoil and the war in Iraq “early next week.”….The meeting will come just days before world leaders converge on Washington for a November 15 summit to address the causes of and remedies to the international economic meltdown, likely the first in a series.
And of course, by the time the meeting is actually held, we’ve already been told what the attendees are going to say when they get there.
In the entertainment business, we call this ‘phoning it in’. In other words, you don’t really need to be there.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he will urge world leaders meeting later this month to make “selective” improvements to financial regulation, to avoid protectionism and use “sensible” fiscal policies to navigate the uncertain global economic waters.
All these meetings make me absolutely giddy with economic spin-off possibilities.
Imagine all the travel, hotel rooms, cabs, room service, printing, lounge singers and hookers who’ll benefit – and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
I once worked at a place where we instituted the BlackJack Meeting Rule – no meeting could last more than 21 minutes. It’s one way of keeping meetings to the point and getting to the good stuff, and you can do it on a conference call.
Of course, that would suck for the world economy.
So leaders of the world – keep sending those meeting requests, and let’s see if we can’t juice up the world economy the good old fashioned way – with rubber chicken dinners and endless PowerPoint presentations.
First a realtor rear-ends me and my Jeep is a write off, now some random realtor is following (to closely) on Twitter. Sheesh !