Three reasons to visit The Wedge Co-op this week

7 Jun

(1) Wedge members’ accumulated discounts expire at the end of June. Use ’em or lose ’em.

(2) Fresh organic cherries are selling for $7.69 per pound (at least, that’s what I paid this evening).

(3) You get the fun of seeing dirt in a “construction corral” right near the meat department. In the middle of the store, workers have cut through the concrete floor and are installing pipes underneath it. (Sorry–forgot to take a photo of that.)

fresh red cherries with stems in an open plastic bag

Fresh organic cherries $7.69 per pound

SEC reform for sustainable business

6 Jan

It is heartening to see a movement toward the Public Benefit Corporation business form. Unlike strictly for-profit businesses, PBCs have a “three-legged stool” of goals: to benefit people and the environment as well as to create profit for their shareholders. Ideally, this would be the form for all businesses. In fact, for sustainability, perhaps this is necessary. How can we allow the existence of businesses that choose to enslave their workers at below-poverty wages, for example, while reaping great profits and rewarding their executives with riches beyond compare? (If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is too good to be true.)

seeking to conserve land and water so as to be fit for a diversity of growing things

1 Nov

Boskyadj. of or relating to woods; having an abundance of trees, shrubs or other greenery.

Bayn. a protected body of water, or a piece of land at least partly surrounded by hills or woods.