Holiday In The Sun - Off to PEI for Family Reunion!!!

My dad's family is from Charlottetown PEI and so we're having the Trainor Family Reunion down there from August 5th to August 8th. The last 2 reunions were in 1989 and 1967 so this is a fairly big event for us!

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Samsung beds Ontario with 600 meg massive green energy push

Samsung and the Government of Ontario sign historic green power development deal

Green energy development in Ontario Canada in the twenty-teenies looks like it will be spearheaded by Samsung and everyone else is now playing catch up.

Independent clean power developers across Ontario were stunned at the magnitude of the deal, and the fact that it gives Samsung preferential treatment in advance of normal processes. The estimated 500 megawatts of wind and 100 megawatts of solar allotted to Samsung were good news overall, but two aspects of the plan raised particular concerns:

A) Ontario's feed-in tariff plan only allows for 500 megawatts of photovoltaic solar energy, and a full 20% is planned for the Samsung deal. A possible solution would be to expand the allotment for PV solar energy production to 550 megawatts.

B) Asking the Ontario Power Authority to set aside 260 megawatts of transmission capacity in Haldimand County and 240 megawatts in Essex County and Chatham / Kent, to essentially guarantee access to market for Samsung's.


Tyler Hamilton Green Energy Reporter article on Samsung deal with Ontario Government


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Ethics-driven companies are new vanguard

Toronto's Globe and Mail newspaper published a book review yesterday (Sep 30/09) that illustrated how conscious companies can outperform their un-guided competition.


... values, when followed, allow them to outpace competitors by helping the firms be more innovative, grow through mergers and acquisitions, attract talent, deal with diversity in an era where that is crucial, and confront the dark side of globalization.


HARVEY SCHACHTER
Special to The Globe and MailLast updated on Thursday, Oct. 01, 2009 03:04AM EDT


SuperCorp By Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Crown, 319 pages, $32

When the tsunami hit Southeast Asia in 2004, IBM employees in the region headed for the affected areas to see how they could put their data-processing skills to work to assist the relief effort. The mandate was to serve, not to make money - then or in the future - from emergency relief.

When executives at Brazil's Banco Real noticed a group of employees from an external cleaning company having lunch amid fumes from car exhausts in the garage at headquarters, they could have ignored it. But the company's core values of treating people properly were violated, and so the bank convened all of its suppliers and asked for their assistance in meeting higher social justice and environmental standards, not just at that garage but in all their activities.

When new media communications purveyor Digitas released miserable second-quarter results in 2006 and its stock collapsed, the chief executive officer received an e-mail takeover bid from a large marketing firm effectively saying: Now that you are at a price which is affordable, we should start speaking.

But Maurice Lévy, CEO of Publicis Groupe SA, who had also been courting Digitas, backed off from his pursuit with an e-mail saying, "I'm sorry. It's so unfair that you are hurt this way because the parameters remain very good." When Digitas started to recover, he initiated a conversation that led to a deal.

IBM, Banco Real and Publicis are three of the companies that Harvard Business School Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter has been tracking for the past three years because she believes they offer a new model for success.

She calls them "vanguard companies," and, at the heart of what makes them special, is that they have strong, humane values and follow them despite the temptations in a fiercely competitive capitalist world to do otherwise.

Full article on ethical companies at Globe and Mail official website



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Punk Rock To Align with Ecology Groups against toxic fuels

Having been there when punk rocked against racism and nuclear weaponry (late 70s, early 80s), it is clear to me that punk rock in the twenty-teenies and twenty-twenties will be about survival, and the fight against coal, oil and nuclear. Ya think I'm overstating the case? You probably also think that Bush's work for his Texan and Saudi backers had nothing to do with$140 oil and the near collapse of the global economy...

Anyways, I am inviting everyone with news of any environmental or social protests to post it here, especially if there is a connection to punk rock or other activist music (thinking Reggae, ska, folk, hardcore, world+++).

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