Things Are Good

Upcycling takes items that would otherwise be wasted and makes them into useful products. James, who works for Terracycle, wrote to let me know that they have teamed up with Kraft to make some upcycled bags. I wonder how people will react to branded recycling.
Kraft will become the first major multi-category corporation to fund [...]

Posterchild is a Toronto-based artist who is sick of all the illegal billboards in the city and decided to do something about it by using art. One can hope that other cities follow in São Paulo lead by banning billboards in the city. Until then, we have artists.
Last Monday—using data gleaned from Rami Tabello’s IllegalSigns.ca—Posterchild [...]

Wal-Mart, the king of conspicuous consumption, has tried to open a group on Facebook only to find that people are well aware of the bad things Wal-Mart does. The good part of this story is that Wal-Mart is getting told by people what they actually think, and Wal-Mart’s being encouraged to take the battering.
I like [...]

 Six out of 10 employees working in the commercial sector believe that the not-for-profit sector has shed its “cardigan brigade” label. Six out of 10 employees working in the commercial sector believe that the not-for-profit sector has shed its “cardigan brigade” label and offers strong career prospects, research shows.
A survey by forum3, organisers of a [...]

Here in Toronto city hall continues to not act on taking down illegal signs, even in their own neighbourhood. There are a lot of them, and I mean a lot. It’s rather shocking actually. What’s a Torontonian going to do?
Start a blog about it at IllegalSigns.ca!
IllegalSigns.ca is a team of volunteers who fight [...]