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Blog: Absurdist Packaging I’m writing this aboard a Delta Airlines flight from Atlanta to L.A. Literally moments before beginning boarding, they announced that the supposedly included meal wasn’t free in the coach section. Hmmm–why didn’t they tell me this three days ago when I requested a vegetarian meal? Or even when I’d arrived at the [...]
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Rosh HaShanah Sameach–a very happy new year to those of you who, like me, will be celebrating starting at sundown. May you be inscribed in the Book of Life!
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In three days at Book Expo America, I saw one technology that could really alter the world…FedEx, DHL, UPS, USPS, and all the other courier services need to know that the real business they are in at least as much about transporting signatures as in transporting large documents…
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As a Massachusetts taxpayer, I resent this. The Boston Globe reports that several Boston-area hospitals have wildly overcharged the state on charges for caring for indigent patients. Two among several examples cited: [Cambridge Health Alliance] charged the pool $6,469 for 100 tablets of the anticholesterol drug Lipitor, for which it should have charged $224. In [...]
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A bit off-track for this blog, but this has to be shared: these pictures of elephants, eagles, whales, etc seem so human, and the organizers claim they’re unretouched. Those in southern California may want to seek out the exhibit in Santa Monica. I pass on the post from my good friend Nenah Sylver: Subject: Ashes [...]
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I went to a bookstore the other day and noticed two books prominently displayed on the same front table: Our Endangered Values: America’s Moral Crisis, by none other than former President Jimmy Carter, and a Beacon Press anthology, Global Values 101, featuring such well-known progressive thinkers as Howard Zinn, Amy Goodman, Robert Reich, and Lani [...]
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Nuclear power plants cause great risk, and the industry actually uses more power than it produces. Read on: My first exposure to the nuclear industry was in 1972 when Con Edison proposed to build a nuke 2 miles north of New York City’s northern border and 3 miles north of where I was living at [...]
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I just got back from the twice-a-year Town Meeting in my small farm town of Hadley, MA, USA. Town Meeting is a New England tradition where the citizenry engages in direct democracy. Any registered voter can show up speak about any item on the agenda (one article at a time), and cast a vote for [...]
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I spent this past weekend at an amazing and energizing conference: Bioneers By the Bay, in Dartmouth, MA. This was one of 17 Bioneers conferences held on the same weekend around the US, plus the “main event” in San Rafael, California. At the Massachusetts gathering, some of the most creative thinkers of our time gathered [...]
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Name: Shel Horowitz
Location: Hadley, Massachusetts, United States |
A blog about business ethics from Shel Horowitz, expert on Green principles and business ethics as success drivers. This blog covers the intersections of ethics, politics, media, marketing, and sustainability.
About Shel: Copywriter, marketing and publishing consultant, speaker, and award-winning author of seven books. The three most recent are Principled Profit: Marketing That Puts People First, Grassroots Marketing for Authors and Publishers, and Grassroots Marketing: Getting Noticed in a Noisy world.
Shel specializes in affordable, ethical, and effective marketing for authors, publishers, small businesses, nonprofits, and community groups.
He's currently engaged in a campaign to get 25,000 people to sign--and spread--the Business Ethics Pledge: www.business-ethics-pledge.org
An Action Creates Its Own Possibllity: Slavoj Zizek
May 13th, 2008 · 9 Comments · Business Ethics, Energy & Sustainability, General Commentary, Other, People Helping People, Politics
Fascinating and far-ranging interview with European philosopher Slavoj Zizek on Democracy Now this morning. He covered war, energy, US presidential politics, and much more. But the statement that really got to me was: A true act creates the conditions of its own possibility. That is to say, it appears impossible, you do it, and the [...]
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