tending the garden

There was an article in the WSJ today about Toyota and Jim Press, their north american CEO.
 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118236836933942337.html?mod=todays_us_marketplace
Late last year in a New York conference room, Mr. Press quietly listened to a pitch from Japanese advertising agency Dentsu Inc. for a campaign that used Toyota’s growing American work force as a way to deflect potential criticism […]

http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/6/19/123649/857
While writing about medium wind in Alaska, I ran into information that led me to believe there were some questionable offsets involved with the project. More extensive research, including interviews with Brent Petrie of AVEC and Tom Stoddard of Native Wind, have revealed a more complicated situation, one that still doesn’t look good to me.

I downloaded a report about pavement and portland yesterday. It described what the city is doing to keep the streets maintained. I was bored by page 2.
That’s the problem with researching this new job right now - each small setback (an article that bores me to tears, an opportunity to talk with someone in the […]