¶ Published Friday, January 30th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Environment, Miscellaneous ∞ No Comments »
Environmentalists are notoriously pessimistic. They confidently claim, “We consume too much, there are too many people, capitalism destroys nature…”. I disagree. Over the past few years, I have become increasingly optimistic about our chances at not only survival, but prospering.
I recently read an article about the automation of warehouses for major companies. Intelligent robots run around [...]
¶ Published Friday, January 30th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Environment ∞ No Comments »
The Canadian Bar Association has invited legal futurist, Richard Susskind, to speak at a the Canadian launch of his new book The End of Lawyers: Rethinking the Nature of Legal Services. The event will take place at the National Club on February 11. Anyone can register here.
His argument in a nutshell: lawyers have become [...]
¶ Published Thursday, January 29th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Legal Issues ∞ No Comments »
Here is a bulletin from our site, it was published on January 3rd, 2009.
Under the new New Product Stewardship Regulations, the companies that produce or distribute product packaging or printed paper (stewards) in Manitoba are responsible for developing a program to manage designated wastes.
The Regulation targets all product packaging and printed papers that would normally [...]
¶ Published Thursday, January 29th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Environment ∞ No Comments »
More commentary on the Federal budget from the National Post quoting Matthew Bramley, director of the climate change program the Pembina Institute. Bramley’s main issue seems to be that Canada is budgeted to spend about four times less per capita on clean energy than the US, which is looking into an ambitious upgrade of its [...]
¶ Published Wednesday, January 28th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Environment ∞ No Comments »
Next week is the TED conference. At this moment, I am too poor and too un-accomplished to attend. However, we can now get a live stream of the conference and that is exactly what we have done. Our office will be showing the conference live on a projector screen. Space is very limited and [...]
¶ Published Wednesday, January 28th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Environment ∞ No Comments »
The recent Federal budget has made some room for environmental initiatives. These vary from green infrastructure to regulatory changes. In total there are 51 mentions of “environment” and 23 mentions of “environmental” in the recent budget; not exactly overwhelming. Overall, it seems like a missed opportunity. In this time of uncertainty, the Federal government could [...]
¶ Published Tuesday, January 27th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Design & Features, Environment, Legal Issues ∞ No Comments »
As previously mentioned, we are making video screencasts of the different parts of NIMONIK. Just finished a quick one on the legislation part of the site, take a look below and let us know what you think.
Watch in high quality: Video
Or watch in lower quality here:
¶ Published Monday, January 26th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Design & Features, Miscellaneous ∞ No Comments »
This is a cross posting with visiblegovernment.ca
My friend, Jennifer Bell over at visiblegovernment.ca, asked me to write about a recent and interesting presentation extolling the benefits of an “open city”, so here goes. The presenter, Mark Surman, outlines his idea for using collaborative technologies to improve the quality of life and efficiency of a city [...]
¶ Published Thursday, January 22nd at %I:%M %p ∞ In Environment ∞ No Comments »
With all the talk surrounding economic angst, the common theme emerging is uncertainty. Who knows what to global downturn will inflict in terms of pain, or how long it will last? But for entrepreneurs, here’s the upside: the bigger the upheaval, the greater the opportunity for businesses to develop effective solutions, especially when they act [...]
¶ Published Wednesday, January 21st at %I:%M %p ∞ In Environment ∞ No Comments »
Over the next few weeks we will be putting together some screencasts of different parts of the site. Here is the first one, a rapid fire overview of our Dashboard.
Watch in High Quality HERE or below in a smaller version.
