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- The one and only sandwich with yellow cheese and GOAT ketchup - Kotlin z Piekła Rodem. Kitchen is not my place on Earth but I’m trying.
- I’m a big fan of UK TV series called Misfits, so it has to be invisibility. Shout out for those who appreciate this masterpiece.
- London. Can’t really explain why, in fact, I’ve never been there but I can imagine myself living there.
- Ten Days of Falling by Shlohmo. Powerfully affecting, full of extreme emotions.
- Straight to the facts: Bydgoszcz is home to the largest city park in Poland, with almost 830 hectares of green space. On a European scale, this places it in the top ten. I've been there, I recommend it.
- Back to question 3.
9. In which of your creative professions do you feel the best? Why?
- Animating. It brings together the whole process of drawing, typography, photos etc.
- Lost in Translation.
11. Favourite plant?
- The way you perceive other people is indicative of yourself, not of them.
- ’I got your nose’ thing with my girlfriend.
17. Sth special about you.
- So that we always want to know more and better.In the summer of 2015, an idea struck me: What if Alberta, as a province -- government, industry, not-for-profits, and everybody -- were to actively support the (then to be released) UN's Sustainable Development Goals? Or, more specifically: Would adopting/endorsing the SDGs help Alberta improve its sustainability performance and its ability to communicate this performance to the rest of the world?
For the 12 months following the SDG's official ratification, PwC Alberta, in collaboration with the global law firm Dentons, have been asking that question to hundreds of Albertans. We have asked it in one-on-one meetings, and we asked it in three separate round tables we hosted in Calgary and Edmonton in the first half 2016. We asked the question to representatives from industry, government, and the not-for-profit sector, academia, and other groups. We call it the Alberta SDG Initiative.
As you would expect, we received a range of responses, many with conditions and qualifications, but the overall answer is probably best summed up as a "cautious yes," i.e., Yes, Alberta should consider publicly adopting/endorsing the SDGs to improve its sustainability performance and its ability to communicate this performance to the rest of the world.
If Alberta truly wants to be an world-class energy player, we can't ignore the SDGs.
The SDGs would allow Alberta to broaden discussions with international critics from climate change to the other 16 topic areas identified in the SDGs. The province knows that despite the government's ambitious new emission regulations and carbon tax programs, in some critic's eyes Alberta will never ever be able to do enough. So let's use the SDGs to remind the world that there is more to sustainability than climate change. In fact, a lot more. So while we may still have room to improve on our climate change performance, we are actually doing quite well in many of the other 16 SDG topic areas. Let's communicate this to the world.
Alberta ought to use an internationally recognized and vetted sustainability framework and vocabulary to measure and communicate its sustainability performance to the world, rather than yet another home-made solution. The UN spent three years developing and vetting the SDGs to ensure they accurately reflected the world's sustainability priorities. They involved businesses, governments, academia, and experts from around the world. If Alberta truly wants to be an world-class energy player, we can't ignore the SDGs. It would be to our own peril. We need to use the SDGs to frame our sustainability performance and communications.
It's already started. One of Alberta's most successful agri-products company, Agrium, already utilizes and reports on the SDGs. In June 2016 Agrium was one of five organizations that received a Canadian Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Award. Industries outside of the petroleum industry can follow Agrium's lead and get moving on this.
Now is a rough time in the Alberta oil patch. Between low oil and gas prices, the downsizing, the revenue and cost pressures, the major fire in Fort McMurray and everything else, it is very difficult for the remaining oil and gas employees to get their heads around supporting an ambitious international initiative like the SDGs.
As one person said to me "Our departments have been slashed. We feel over-committed as it is." To which I say, I hear you. But your industry will eventually recover. It always does. In the meantime, study and support the SDGs by word of mouth where you can. Keep your eye on the future -- after all the SDGs are built around the year 2030 -- and plan to actively support the SDGs when you have the resources.
So there you have it. We are planning more meetings and round tables, and maybe even a summit or two, in the months to come. For more information, feel free to contact me via LinkedIn.
By the way, thank you to everyone who helped organize and participated in our SDG round tables, as well as those who took the time to meet one-on-one with us on this important topic. It is much appreciated.NEW YORK — The names are mostly known and so are the possible penalties — 50 games for most, perhaps a lifetime ban for one.
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AP Baseball Writer Janie McCauley, AP Sports Writers Stephen Hawkins, Larry Lage and Bernie Wilson, and AP freelance writer Mark Didlter contributed to this reportThe exhibits industry is known to be tight knit, everyone seems to know everyone and has often worked with each other at various companies. Despite, or perhaps because of this, clients and relationships are protected and guarded. It can often be difficult to put those guards down and open your doors to competitors, but great things are possible when you meet for a greater cause.
Over the past few months I’ve been hard at work with a group of incredible advocates at getting the local chapter of the EDPA up and running again. The Exhibit Designers and Producers Association mission statement is to advance the interests of members engaged in the design, production, and service of exhibits, events and experimental environments. Our goal is to meet, excite and educate professionals across Southern California that are active in trade shows, events, and experimental environments. Being in the entertainment center of the world, a unique blend of combined qualities and knowledge can amount to industry changing effects.
We enjoyed our first meeting, hosted here at Muse, with over 30 new friends in December. Mark Watson of Measure Inc gave a thought provoking presentation on taking into account how we shape and measure the experience of exhibit attendees. Shortly after the meeting the newly elected board met to plan the events calendar for 2015. We’ll be joining up again in early May at 760 Display in San Diego, and we’ve got a pair of great events scheduled for later in the year.
In addition to networking and educational activities, our board has been working with a local university to create a specialized track to prepare students for a career in exhibit design, something extremely rare in scholastics at this time.
If you’d like to be kept up to date and take part visit the chapter website for a list of contacts.
Let’s review the Tradeshow AV System Highlights of Infocomm ’18!St. Nikolaus is a day of small gifts, and so, since I have, as a contributor to Artful Blogging, the opportunity to host a giveaway, I’m offering it today and will bestow, on one lucky winner, a copy of the latest issue. Maybe, just maybe, passing on this magazine that really changed my writing career (see My Artful Blogging Story) will do some other wonderful thing for the recipient!
All you have to do is leave, by end of day Friday, December 9, a comment below, sharing what your dream travel destination would be, fitting in with my article “The Accidental Travel Blogger” in that issue.
Mine would be a trip on the Transsiberian railroad, all the way from St. Petersburg to Vladivostok. These days I am on a Russian journey anyway as I have been listening, again, to Nabokov’s Speak, Memory in my car. More about that in my Reading List, which you’re welcome to subscribe to (see sign-up form in right-hand column). His language is so luscious, I find myself swooning more often than I am annoyed by some of his tediousness.
I have another giveaway coming up on December 15 for the new winter issue of Bella Grace as I have an article in that as well. Stay tuned!
My dream travel destination is Norway. Why? When I was in the fifth grade, we each were given a country to study and make a report on. We had to put it together in a booklet form. I learned a great deal about Norway and I have always wanted to visit there ever since completing the project. I have been to many countries but, sadly, not to Norway.
I can't believe with all your travels around Europe, you