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April 21, 2008
World’s Greenest person contest to raise awareness
Study tracks life on welfare
North American leaders meet
World’s Greenest person contest to raise awareness
Boyd Cohen’s global contest to determine who might fit the bill of the greenest person on the planet – on the eve of Earth Day, April 22 – is receiving early feedback from all over the world. The idea is to raise awareness of how people on a global scale are living ‘green’. The contest survey was posted on the weekend at Cohen’s new company site, 3rdWhale.com to see the response it would get before going ‘live’ on April 22. Within a day the site received hundreds of visitors from as far off as Kuala Lumpur, Venezuela and England. Participants of the survey to date include a 40-year-old entrepreneur from Malaysia who is working on a green cement solution (given, he says, that 5-7 per cent of the world’s CO2 emissions are derived from cement manufacturing.) For more on the contest see www.3rdwhale.com. Cohen, an assistant professor at SFU Business specializing in sustainable entrepreneurship, can talk about the project.
Boyd Cohen, 604.250.1292; bcohen@sfu.ca
Study tracks life on welfare
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) is releasing a new study on the basic hardships confronting British Columbians living on welfare on Tuesday, April 22. Living on Welfare in BC: Experiences of Longer-Term "Expected to Work" Recipients establishes a link between homelessness and welfare rules. It bases several other conclusions on a two-year examination of welfare recipients' experience with health, food and labour issues. SFU researchers Jane Pulkingham, Sylvia Parusel and Jewelles Smith are among several authors on the report. Pulkingham is chair of the Department of Sociology at SFU. Parusel is pursuing doctoral studies in sociology at SFU. Smith earned a Master of Arts in Women's Studies at SFU in 2007 and is now the services assistant for Western Canada for Muscular Dystrophy Canada. Pulkingham and Smith will be available at tomorrow's news conference at 9:30 a.m., Carnegie Centre, 401 Main Street.
Terra Poirier, CCPA, 604.801.5121 x229, terra@policyalternatives.ca (to arrange interviews with Pulkingham, Parusel and Smith) www.policyalternatives.ca
North American leaders meet
Leaders of Canada, the U.S. and Mexico are in New Orleans for tomorrow’s meeting of the Security and Prosperity Partnership Summit. The SPP was launched in 2005 to focus on trilateral security and economic issues in the shadow of NAFTA. SFU political scientist Alexander Moens recently undertook a study of the SPP for the Fraser Institute, in which he suggests the partnership is so misunderstood it should be relaunched and rebranded. Moens can talk about the summit, its goals and the controversy it stirs.
Alexander Moens, 778.782.4361; alexander_moens@sfu.ca
Study tracks life on welfare
North American leaders meet
World’s Greenest person contest to raise awareness
Boyd Cohen’s global contest to determine who might fit the bill of the greenest person on the planet – on the eve of Earth Day, April 22 – is receiving early feedback from all over the world. The idea is to raise awareness of how people on a global scale are living ‘green’. The contest survey was posted on the weekend at Cohen’s new company site, 3rdWhale.com to see the response it would get before going ‘live’ on April 22. Within a day the site received hundreds of visitors from as far off as Kuala Lumpur, Venezuela and England. Participants of the survey to date include a 40-year-old entrepreneur from Malaysia who is working on a green cement solution (given, he says, that 5-7 per cent of the world’s CO2 emissions are derived from cement manufacturing.) For more on the contest see www.3rdwhale.com. Cohen, an assistant professor at SFU Business specializing in sustainable entrepreneurship, can talk about the project.
Boyd Cohen, 604.250.1292; bcohen@sfu.ca
Study tracks life on welfare
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) is releasing a new study on the basic hardships confronting British Columbians living on welfare on Tuesday, April 22. Living on Welfare in BC: Experiences of Longer-Term "Expected to Work" Recipients establishes a link between homelessness and welfare rules. It bases several other conclusions on a two-year examination of welfare recipients' experience with health, food and labour issues. SFU researchers Jane Pulkingham, Sylvia Parusel and Jewelles Smith are among several authors on the report. Pulkingham is chair of the Department of Sociology at SFU. Parusel is pursuing doctoral studies in sociology at SFU. Smith earned a Master of Arts in Women's Studies at SFU in 2007 and is now the services assistant for Western Canada for Muscular Dystrophy Canada. Pulkingham and Smith will be available at tomorrow's news conference at 9:30 a.m., Carnegie Centre, 401 Main Street.
Terra Poirier, CCPA, 604.801.5121 x229, terra@policyalternatives.ca (to arrange interviews with Pulkingham, Parusel and Smith) www.policyalternatives.ca
North American leaders meet
Leaders of Canada, the U.S. and Mexico are in New Orleans for tomorrow’s meeting of the Security and Prosperity Partnership Summit. The SPP was launched in 2005 to focus on trilateral security and economic issues in the shadow of NAFTA. SFU political scientist Alexander Moens recently undertook a study of the SPP for the Fraser Institute, in which he suggests the partnership is so misunderstood it should be relaunched and rebranded. Moens can talk about the summit, its goals and the controversy it stirs.
Alexander Moens, 778.782.4361; alexander_moens@sfu.ca