As we enter the dark depths of winter, I would like to share with you a new take on an old game I've developed for those of you who are occasionally brave enough to watch news television. This is is a game that you can play alone or with the whole family, no matter your political persuasion - as persuasion seems to be the only thing cable news is up to these days.
Turn on, say Fox news, or even CBC's The Lang and O'Leary Exchange.
Prepare bingo card, use loose change as tokens
Pay less attention to the content of the program, but rather the methods of communication employed by guests and/or "journalists."
place a token on appropriate square when the inevitable technique to used. First one with a complete line wins. Note: you can even play alone - if there is a winning card, journalism automatically loses.
Note: The above graphic is designed using a free ecofont. Saves toner.
I love the fine folks at Corporate Knights, I do. However, something jumped out at me while viewing pictures from the recent publicity around the Corporate Knight Cleantech 10(tm) TSX event - the dearth of female and non-white faces in the photos.
I recognize this mostly lies well outside the hands of CK - they serve as a messenger for CSR and Enterprise sustainability, not the direction of it - but it still serves as a signal all isn't well in Corporate-Canada - even Green Corporate Canada. Granted, just prior to seeing this image, I had read an article on the search for female authority in university classrooms, another about the 30-year anniversary of women winning the right to serve as firefighters (spoiler: it's still not easy being recognised), a rather superficial post on Big Think about Women in Finance, and, most applicable, a succinct Business Week article addressing the issue of Why There Are So Few Women in Tech. So maybe I was primed to notice this wee gender (and race) imbalance when I got around to reading this particular post.
I'm not going to address the deep and challenging issue of diversity in Corporate Canada on this wee post (though I do have a lovely presentation on the topic) - but I will humbly point out the ad that appeared on the same page as the Corporate Knight Cleantech 10(tm) image...
Update: the folks at Corporate Knights also noticed the issue of diversity at this event and an "article in upcoming issue will ask why [the] green movement lacks [diversity]".You can check out their most recent report of diversity in Corporate Canada here. Or, for fun times with spreadsheets, download a spreadsheet with all the companies within the index and count the "0.00%" until your eyes bleed.
