Social/Environmental

Environmental and social issues

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Social/Environmental

Not a Cough in a Carload

10/18/2008 Dr Wingnut Comments Off on Not a Cough in a Carload
An interesting online gallery at Stanford of “Images from the Tobacco Industry Campaign to Hide the Hazards of Smoking.”  A very good presentation of tobacco promotion by doctors, babies, Santa, and celebrities.
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Quotations

Green

10/08/2008 Dr Wingnut Comments Off on Green
There is no such thing as a green economy.  There are only economies that are less brown.“Jake” Environmental Engineer, IEEE Computer, September 2008, pg. 7
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Social/Environmental

The Ponzi Economy

10/01/2008 Dr Wingnut Comments Off on The Ponzi Economy
Now that the bubble has burst, let’s be frank: it was absurd to base our well-being on property prices.It’s been obvious for years that real estate was a bubble ready to burst.  Politicians and government […]
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Common sense

09/17/2008 Dr Wingnut Comments Off on Common sense
By all means, let’s explore space with probes and instruments.  But before we export ourselves to the moon, let’s get our garbage, our consumption and our relations with one another under control.  Let’s learn to […]
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Social/Environmental

For a breath of air

08/29/2008 Dr Wingnut Comments Off on For a breath of air
What will we do when we use up all the natural resources… will we mine the landfills that we’ve created…What about the resources we’ve sent in to space… will we send an expedition into low […]
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Social/Environmental

Customer Service

08/26/2008 Dr Wingnut Comments Off on Customer Service
I thought that this picture, by Phillip Toledano, was an outstanding example of the end of customer service, idea number 2 that self-service has forever changed the way that services are delivered.It really epitomizes the […]
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Ethics

08/23/2008 Dr Wingnut Comments Off on Ethics
Ethics is the nuclear wast of the executive site.  It’s dangerous, it’s always there, and nobody’s sure what to do with it.Kieran Mathieson, Oakland University, IEEE Computer, July 2008