http://davidburn.com/blog Writer, Editor and Entrepreneur Fri, 16 May 2008 13:39:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As any reader of Natural Capitalism knows, there's money to be made in sustainability. Governing.com points out that one direction for budding green workers is to join the staff of a city government. Fayetteville's mayor, Dan Coody, is one of 805 mayors nationally who have signed pledges to slash their cities' ... http://davidburn.com/blog/2008/05/15/sustainability-directors-do-their-civic-duty/ Chris Corrigan of Bowen Island, British Columbia, makes a great point about the world becoming large again (and what our response might be). When airline travel becomes prohibitive and fuel costs make transporting goods too expensive, the world will begin to unshrink, find its real size again. And in that moment, ... http://davidburn.com/blog/2008/05/15/its-a-wide-wide-world-again/ Sara Lloyd of Pan Macmillan is offering "A book publisher’s manifesto for the 21st century" in six parts on the firm's blog. Here's one paragraph from the initial entry: Publishers – and, importantly, authors - will need increasingly to accept huge cultural and social and economic and educational changes and to ... http://davidburn.com/blog/2008/05/15/lack-of-book-readers-challenges-publishers-to-change/ Yellow journalism is a pejorative reference to journalism that features scandal-mongering, sensationalism, or other unethical or unprofessional practices by news media organizations or journalists. The term originated during the Gilded Age with the circulation battles between Joseph Pulitzer's New York World and William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal. Both papers ... http://davidburn.com/blog/2008/05/14/is-this-yellow-journalism/ Now that Barack Obama is the Democrat Party's "presumtive nominee", it's time to address the real roadblocks he's going to face in the general election. According to The Washington Post, (and my own observations) racial hatred is still commonplace in America. For all the hope and excitement Obama's candidacy is ... http://davidburn.com/blog/2008/05/13/can-we-rise-above-the-ugliness/ I think he'll be to Rome As is the osprey to the fish, who takes it By sovereignty of nature. -Shakespeare Our local power provider, Palmetto Electric Co-op, is offering the community a chance to learn more about majestic raptors in our midst. For years electric transmission towers have served as nesting homes ... http://davidburn.com/blog/2008/05/04/big-birds/ Have you read Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s essay on energy in Vanity Fair? It's well worth your time if you have yet to see it. Here's a quick look at the essential argument: Carbon dependence has eroded our economic power, destroyed our moral authority, diminished our international influence and prestige, endangered ... http://davidburn.com/blog/2008/04/29/im-motivated-by-green/ Did you know I was a Scottish-born pioneer and dramatist from the 19th century? Wikipedia knows. http://davidburn.com/blog/2008/04/23/the-other-david-burn/ Entering Fort Lauderdale The back of my 32 year-old thighs no longer command top dollar from the gentlemenly class. Now I work behind a bar in a Bam Bam outfit and men still look. I let them eye my dance with cash and whiskey. Some still offer me money to go home with them. I say, “I’m not a whore, asshole.” But ... http://davidburn.com/blog/2008/04/22/fresh-poetry/ Matthew Creamer of Ad Age is contemplating the future of news and wondering if it's an aggregated cluster fuck. With the expensive pursuit of professional content failing to jibe with profitability, media entrepreneurship looks to be reduced to a meta role of repackaging what's already out there. Welcome to the era ... http://davidburn.com/blog/2008/04/14/the-few-the-brave-the-gumshoe-reporters/