Is It Time for the “Elm Street Economy?”
It must have been somewhere around 1986, in the early days of my business, that I first encountered the work of Paul and Sarah Edwards, gurus to the home-based business sector that was just beginning...
View ArticleBuilding Cooperative Marketing Relationships: Practicing What I Preach
Cooperate with others to open new markets. It’s one of the key principles of my brand new book, Guerrilla Marketing Goes Green (co-authored with Jay Conrad Levinson), released this week by John Wiley...
View ArticleThe Teabagger Anti-Socialist Purity Pledge
I’ve long wondered why the people who so strenuously object to socialized medicine have no problem with other socialized services, such as police and fire protection (on the government monopoly model)...
View ArticleBailout a Success, Missiles Reduced: Recent Obama Victories
Since I’ve often been critical of President Obama, it’s nice to point out two bits of positive news you probably haven’t heard on national media: First, this press release reports that the bailout is...
View ArticleMarketing Honesty: Is Fair Trade Really a Fair Deal?
Editor’s Note: Sometimes I like to post things to stimulate controversy, and thus I’m running this guest post by Alexis Bonari, critiquing one of the sacred cows of the sustainability movement: fair...
View ArticleCan A Tomato Change the World?
This time of year, we spend an astonishing amount of time dealing with food: harvesting from our garden, making salads, cooking, preserving, giving or occasionally selling surplus…but it is SO worth...
View ArticleHey, Barack, When Do We Get the SOLAR Stimulus?
The latest stimulus proposal, announced this week by Barack Obama, will put $50 billion into the hopper for improvements to “the nation’s roads, railways and runways,” as the Associated Press story...
View Article“Random” Occurrences Show Me The Universe is Noticing
There is definitely something to all this Law of Attraction stuff. Consider this: For the past few months, I’ve been putting out a lot of energy around four things: 1. Expanding the public speaking...
View ArticleTransition Towns
Last night, the local organizer for the Transition Towns movement finally got around to doing one in my town. We were a small group including several of the “usual suspects” (old friends from previous...
View ArticleInteresting National Geographic Article on Food Foraging
I tried to make this comment directly on the article, at http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/blogs/thegreenguide/2010/09/urban-foragers-cropping-up-in.html. It wouldn’t take, and I’m not one to waste...
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