Friday, July 12, 2002

TV - Children and Obesity So many factors about why kids are fat today - we have already looked at fast food but TV is an other factor 10:01:06 PM    comment []

Social Capital - a requirement for sustainable development and prosperity Robert Putnam has created the field for the study of the role of Social Capital and its effecton our communities and our economy. Here is a good introduction to his thinking 10:43:18 AM    comment []

Do you build a Technology Centre or a Night Club? Here is a review of a new book that looks at how the "Creative Class" drives the economy. It gets to the heart of the main driver which is not money but the freedom and the environment that enables peole to be their most creative 7:42:12 AM    comment []

Fast Food - The Tobacco of the Future? I suspect that in a decade we will agree that fast food has been the "new tobacco". We will rail against the soft drink firms and MCD for "knowing" that they were spending billions to enage children to demand the food that poisoned them and was the cause of the obesity epidemic. People call for exercise programs but as this article from the Washington Posts suggests, we need to look at the economic driver 7:08:04 AM    comment []