Ford Adapting to New Reality
GM has already announced that it would invest more in small cars, a hot market. Now Ford is announcing a $75 million investment in its Michigan truck plant to retool it for C-class small car production.

When Prices Are Low, They Want Subsidies, When Prices are High, They...
A U.N. report released yesterday shows that if subsidies on fossil fuels (which we already wrote about: Hidden Oil Subsidies: We Need to END Them) were abolished, it could "cut world greenhouse gas emissions by up to 6 percent" and also nudge up world economic growth.

Everyone used to get their milk from the milkman; it would come in glass bottles that would be picked up and refilled. As women joined the workforce it became less convenient than picking up the new cardboard-packaged milk at the supermarket.

If only politics really was about people looking at the issues and making intelligent choices. Instead we have Glenn Beck telling his audience to "Take part in our carbon ONset program. We are asking you to make just a few small sacrifices to completely wipe out any potential energy savings the Democrats claim credit for." He wants to add "70-million pounds of new C02 into the atmosphere to offset the Democratic Conventions offset program."

We have complained before about ad creep, how the public realm is being taken over by private marketers. I don't know if I should be happy or sad that the Egg Farmers of Canada have determined that there are enough cyclists in London, Ontario that they want to pay to advertise to them by painting ads onto bike lanes.

We'd like to give a quick nod to Big Ink. We know the printing world isn't always very green, and we appreciate their efforts to improve their operations and spread the word to their clients and others within their industry.

The Green Plan

Gas Sippers Holding Their Value

Corporate sustainability -- no longer just the latest collection
of business buzzwords -- now is a required feature in the mission