Jerry Nicolas. I am from Boston U.S. but currently live in Vienna, Austria. I have major problems with the organic industry so Diplomatic Goods became the product of my findings. I have huge problems with other things but we'll save those for later. I am a bright greenest, a Gen Y and an avid language learner but I just don't like Spanish. My two favorite websites are TED and We Feel. You can catch me here on my blog.
The Underlying Notion of an Open Standard
In recent years, due to the advent of Linux, Wikipedia and alike, the term 'open', as it relates to royalty-free, has gained more popularity and is rapidly becoming an household term. ...
Diplomatic Goods is proudly powered by Google Wave
The new peerless tool in communication. What will make the model envisioned by Diplomatic Goods possible will inherently rely in the way we choose to collaboratively work. It is our vision that our ...
The Illusionary Promises of Organic Food
I'm sure at least you have once purchased something that had the label organic on it. Did you remember why? What did you think of it when you brought it home and ...
The Organic Certification Process is a Monopoly
Say you are a small farmer with a descent sized plot of about 11 football fields, just under 20 acres. With that, you and your family are trying to ...
A Bloated World of ‘Organic’ Standards
Why another organic guideline? Isn't there enough already? I had a community leader asked 'why do we need yet another standard as there are scores of governments and private parties whose concern were ...
Why eat or use organic goods ?
Well the question must really be - what is organics? Well, according to all the standards that exist; the standard of JAS from Japan, The
The Case for Diplomatic Goods
In light of all things, we are living in a volatile environment. We have an ever increasing warming of the globe, frequency of natural disasters, widening of the ...