Australia’s “Environment Minister” Ian Campbell has shown the Australian people his own special brand of foresight. A federal government report has warned that in the near future, 30-50 years time, climate change will make Australia a very different place. Campbell’s got a plan: pretend 30-50 years is a long, long way away. The following quotes [...]

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Do companies offer the world anything except products and pollution? Should they offer more? Or less? “Corporate Social Responsibility” (CSR) and “Triple Bottom Line” (TBL) attempt to measure the contribution companies make (positive and negative) to their communities. While these concepts have been around for a few decades, application by large organisations has only started [...]

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Apple iPods contain lead, mercury and other toxins.1 That’s particularly a problem considering there are more than 10 million of them in the world.2 Toxins in landfills are bad news for the environment, so Apple has launched a program (exclusive to the US) where people can take their broken/unwanted iPod to Apple for environmentally-friendly disposal [...]

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Morgan Spurlock’s film, Super Size Me, documents the near-collapse of his body as he ate nothing but McDonald’s for a month. When the film came to Australia, McDonald’s CEO, Guy Russo, went into damage control. He ran an advertising campaign that pointed out, for example, that consumers were encouraged to make informed food choices. Nutritional [...]

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A Fox News “journalist” has attacked the Washington Post, labelling a recent editorial decision by the Post a ‘scandal’. Fox News reporter Steven Milloy has lashed out at the Post for failing to blur the lines between advertising and editorial. He sums up how he thinks news works in this excerpt from a recent story [...]

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