TED Talk: Naomi Klein on "Are We Addicted to Risk?"

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Our societies have become addicted to extreme risk in finding new energy, new financial instruments and more ... and too often, we're left to clean up a mess afterward. Klein's question: What's the backup plan? In this TED Talk, Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, looks at the BP Oil Spill and Climate Change, asking if we are indeed "addicted to risk?". Watch below and comment here on the blog:

David Wyld, Professor of Management
Southeastern Louisiana University

Wyld About Business (http://wyld-business.blogspot.com/)

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Eat a Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich for Lunch to Save the Planet?: PETA Wants You to Rethink Your Brown Bag

OK, here's a novel (or nutty) idea from PETA - watch the video below from the NBC Nightly News:

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So whadya think? This should provoke some lively discussion on the blog - make your post and then come back to see what your contemporaries think.

David

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Nissan Leaf's Strangely Moving Polar Bear Ad (VIDEO)

OK, all of you ad executives getting your tuxedos ready for the big awards might as well stay home. This is one of the best ads of the decade! Love how Nissan and their ad team packaged the whole thing. Now...how do they follow this one up (i.e. the problem with the Old Spice Guy...).

Watch the ad below:



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Don Draper would be proud!

David

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