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06/24/07

• How Our Mail Gets to Us

  Authored by GOOD magazine - 5 votes

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  Business & Money

  response to  GOOD magazine's post How Our Mail Gets to Us

  The Little Guys Aren't That Little

  DHL looks like the little guy here, but is the most reliable of the bunch: check out http://www2.isye.gatech.edu/~jjb/wh/package-race/2007/2007.html
  DHL's success over Fedex and UPS is partly because they're not so little - DHL Express is owned by DeutschePost World Net, the second largest employer on Earth (after Walmart). That means big investment. DHL is huge outside the US, just not very well known here.

  USPS is huge, but they should be after years of having been a government department. They had generations of taxpayer investment and no shareholders to report to, so got all the infrastructure, buildings, vehicles, and government protection they needed without any need to make any of it profitable. We all hear about carrier issues, but USPS has the service down to a science.

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  Commented on December 23, 2007 by - Decomprose

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  Buying

  response to  GOOD magazine's post These Can Be Yours

  Cool

  Cool stuff! The ash tray is a disgustingly beautiful irony, and love the GreenDimes idea. The perfume sounds like an intersting concept, but have to wonder why it is being marketed in what look like generic plastic white-out bottles. Shouldn't a feel-good product have a feel-good container? Who would buy perfume in OfficeMax?

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  Commented on June 24, 2007 by - Decomprose

• Buying a Brand

  Authored by Office of CC and GOOD magazine - 2 votes

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  Buying

  response to  Office of CC and GOOD magazine's post Buying a Brand

  Impact

  These industries have an enormous impact on our daily lives, yet are devoting only 2 - 12% of their revenue to advertising. You can also have an enormous impact on the daily lives of others; to what cause do you devote 2 - 12% of your revenue?

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  Commented on June 24, 2007 by - Decomprose

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  Living

  response to  GOOD magazine's post Project 004 Update

  Shampoo?

  Ditch the Old Spice - darn shame the box for Dennis Kucinich didn't include some Avalon Organics shampoo.

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  Commented on June 24, 2007 by - Decomprose

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  Living

  response to  Sasha Issenberg and Holly Wales's post Raw and Uncut

  Questioning What Is On Our Plates

  Ihe preparation of sushi is truly an art form. What I have learned about the food industry though - it's impact on the environment's health, on our own health, and the way it treats creatures - has made me limit the types of sushi I eat to vegetarian. It is so easy for talented chefs to duplicate the taste and texture of tuna and other fish that I cannot support the industry that destroys our oceans.

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  Commented on June 24, 2007 by - Decomprose

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  Living

  response to  Patrick James and Jonathan Warren's post Horticulture Jamming

  Hmmmm....

  Love the idea of planting food in abandoned lots; some cities do have such programs. Planting on municipal grounds without permission though would likely be unwelcome. A much more productive idea would be to partner with the municipal authority and establish a small plot on which food to be grown to supply a shelter or food bank. Costs may ultimately go down for the city who often have to feed the homeless or fund or supply the shelters, so this type of arrangement is a win-win for all concerned. Getting some troubled youth, homeless, or other target group as additional garden help teaches responsibility and skills they can use the rest of their lives. IT AIN'T EASY but it's ultimately rewarding.

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  Commented on June 24, 2007 by - Decomprose

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  Living

  response to  Jenny Price's post Parlor Park

  Making A Difference

  When places have been trashed for a long time people may unknowingly accept that state as status quo, losing sight of the fact that those places are supposed to be nice. The Verde Coalition is making little changes to change bigger perceptions, and in the process reminding people that they live in a nice neighborhood.

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  Commented on June 24, 2007 by - Decomprose

• Parlor Park

  Authored by Jenny Price - 9 votes

• Getting to Know the Homeless

  Authored by Office of CC and GOOD magazine - 9 votes

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  response to  Office of CC and GOOD magazine's post Getting to Know the Homeless

  Behind The Numbers

  This is a great way to visually compare homeless demographic groups to one another, but it raises two important questions: 1) why are these people homeless, and 2) how can homelessness be addressed? There are many answers to each question of course. Perhaps getting some of the numbers behind the numbers above would help us address homelessness, an issue I fear is only going to worsen under the Bush economy.

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  Commented on June 24, 2007 by - Decomprose

• Number Crunching

  Authored by Morgan Clendaniel - 10 votes

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  Living

  response to  Morgan Clendaniel's post Number Crunching

  Making It Personal

  Excellent! "60,000 every five seconds" might be just another factoid. A visual representation of those numbers really helps to make an impression. Now consider that twenty of those photos is just one minute, and there are 1440 minutes in a day. That means that 28,800 of those photos, or 1,728,000,000 bags is our impact in one day. And then there's tomorrow. And the next day. If you're asking yourself how our landfills will ever deal with this, consider these facts: 1) Q. At what point does most plastic decompose in a landfill? A. Never. 2) Q. What is most plastic made from? A. Imported oil. You may have thought people using those cloth shopping bags looked a little dorky, and here they were saving your ass.

  Be strong. Be smart. Get cloth shopping bags. Use them. It's an easy way to make a difference. And yes, EVERY ONE PERSON THAT DOES IT HELPS.

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  Commented on June 24, 2007 by - Decomprose