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...about going into attack mode," says the former Googler and onetime game developer. "What's unique about a Carrotmob is that there are no enemies." The focus is on positive cooperation, using the power of the casual consumer to help save the planet. (See pictures of a grocery-store auction...
Chocolate shop L.A. Burdick’s is petitioning to increase its store capacity after a series of recent clashes with neighboring clothing store Settebello over noise complaints. According to Burdick’s assistant manager Jaime Napier, the manager of Settebello came into the café twice last week to take photographs, which he sent to the Cambridge License Commission in order to prove that Burdick’s was over capacity. Napier said that the man posed as a regular customer but that she recognized him from past business exchanges. “He’s playing...
...indirect effects on land use: when an acre of land is used to grow fuel instead of food, an extra acre somewhere else is probably going to be converted into farmland to grow food. And that acre may well be an acre of wetland or forest that would otherwise store loads of carbon. So farm fuels become a lose-lose deal: exacerbating the deforestation that already creates one fifth of the world's carbon emissions, and driving up global food prices. (See pictures of the global food crisis...
...said that the Coop’s current claims against BrunoBooks closely resemble the 2007 incident involving CrimsonReading, and that the only difference is that the book titles and prices are now being taken from the Coop’s Web site instead of being manually copied down in-store...
...past two weeks, posters celebrating the Soviet triumph in World War II have been taped to the windows of every store in Russia, proudly displaying the date "9 May" and the orange and black striped ribbon of victory. Red banners have been draped across the fronts of apartment buildings all along the central Moscow parade route. And in the lead-up to the country's annual Victory Day celebrations, the Kremlin has made a move that it touts as yet another display of Russia's patriotism and pride: the government has announced that it is considering passing...