The Question Posts
Do brands have a responsibility to your health?
The government is legislating trans fats. Schools are trying to get soft drinks and unhealthy snacks banned from vending machines. Obesity and diabetes are two health issues that will cost tax payers millions if not more in the future (another expense to be borne by Gen Y).
Do brands have a duty to offer [...]
What Do You Wish Your Parents Had Told You About Sex?
This article is part of the TNGG Sex Week series on Gen Y and sex. Read more from the series here.
The “Birds and Bees” conversation of your childhood likely covered only the basic mechanics of human procreation. In subsequent years you may have picked up bits of information from friends, magazines, or a health education [...]
Do you consider the environmental impact of your transportation?
If there’s a choice between flying and taking a train, what’s your preference? Would you take public transportation over driving if it required more time and effort? Will your next car be a hybrid or SUV? It’s easy to complain about the environment, but will you make a personal sacrifice or at [...]
What’s more important, getting into a high ranked college or one that might give you a better education?
Let’s say you get into Berkeley or Harvard but will be shuffled off to classes taught by graduate teaching assistants as the real professors focus on graduate students. Or you get into a smaller, but less prestigious college, perhaps undergrad programs only where real profs teach you. Which do you choose? Is [...]
Do you work out to stay fit?
We are young, immortal, free of much of the flab that will creep in over the years. So do we take our bodies for granted? Or do we run, cycle, climb? Do we count the crunches? Hold the planks? Make the lunges? Please share. Do you work hard to stay fit or let nature take [...]
Do you text and drive?
OK, it may be hard to admit with all the buzz and condemnation. But even notable reporters have been confessing they do it in their coverage of the movement to ban the dangerous habit. So what about you? The generation that grew up texting. Do you take your eyes off the road to stay connected? [...]
Do you still read books?
Books. You remember those. Hardbound, printed on paper. A few hundred pages long. They come in the mail from Amazon? Do you still read them? Or is your consumption of text limited to Facebook status updates and text messages? Is our generation programming itself to live on nothing but sound bites or do we still [...]
Do you pay attention to your carbon footprint?
The ice caps are disappearing. The world’s government’s can’t agree on how to reduce emissions. The Kyoto Protocol runs out in 2012. There’s more arguing than there is action. Are you doing anything at all? Do you pay attention to your own energy consumption? Do you shut your computer off every night? Cycle instead [...]
Do You Know What’s In The Food You Eat?
Calories, sodium, additives, trans fats. Do you pay attention? Do you count them?
Do you avoid certain foods and ingredients?
How about organic fruits and vegetables or farm raised meat and poultry? Do you insist on them? Or is it too expensive to pay the premium prices often required?
TNGG wants to know how much you pay [...]
How do you use video?
It seems that video is as common and familiar and the spoken or written word. A way to record, express, and distribute ideas, feelings and opinions. So how do you use video and for what? Do you create? Share? Produce and edit finished pieces? And what’s your preferred equipment? Digital tape? Card? Or the ubiquitous [...]
