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Can it, Sony

March 12, 2008

Posted by Kate Wing in Curbing Pollution

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advertising, consumers, credit card, mail, trash

Dear Sony credit card services,Thanks so much for sending me this great can with your latest unsolicited credit card offer! It's true, I was ignoring those blah envelopes you usually send but how could I just toss this in...continued

More fake fish on the market

January 4, 2008

Posted by Kate Wing in Reviving the World's Oceans

Tags:
consumers, florida, grouper, labelling

Florida is taking one of the most aggressive stances in the U.S. on truth-in-fish labelling and their latest sting caught a number of impostor groupers. People want to eat a fish they know by name, not weakfish or sea bream,...continued

Sushi, the political force for change

November 6, 2007

Posted by Kate Wing

Tags:
consumers, correlation, restaurant, sushi, Tsukiji, tuna

Andrew Sullivan's blog tipped me off to this wonderful analysis of the "steak vs. sushi" predictive model of political change. Ethan and the folks at Urbanspoon have tracked the correlation between the ratio of steak restaurants to sushi restaurants in...continued

It already is portable

August 27, 2007

Posted by Kate Wing in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Moving Beyond Oil

Tags:
consumers, marketing, plastic, trash

My office neighbor is the talented Darby Hoover, who you may know from seat 12, Row 48 at last year's Oscars where she went to make them less wasteful. Do not blame her if they were not funny or short...continued

Kate Wing
Kate Wing
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Kate Wing was a senior ocean-policy analyst at NRDC between 2000 and 2008. She's now joined...
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