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From Michael Pollan’s Op Ed in the NY Times: And so the government is poised to go on encouraging America’s fast-food diet with its farm policies even as it takes on added responsibilities for covering the medical costs of that diet. To put it more bluntly, the government is putting itself in the uncomfortable position of subsidizing [...] Eric Schmidt of Google recently gave a speech at the New America Foundation (a post-partisan think tank) in which he outlined the need for an innovation bailout for the US. Instead of simply bailing out failing institutions, we need to take this opportunity to revolutionize our economy, particularly our energy and transportation infrastructures. Detroit needs an [...] Can we all agree that the culture of waste, excess, and inefficiency in America needs to die quickly? Becoming more efficient with our use of energy is critical to breaking the cycle of debt. Energy is at the root of our wealth creation system. I like where Google is going with this: In particular, [...] Malcolm Gladwell, author of “The Tipping Point”, and “Blink”, wrote this article for the New Yorker back in 2004: http://www.gladwell.com/2004/2004_01_12_a_suv.html As is usually the case with Malcolm’s writing, his perspective on the SUV phenomenon is unique, informative, [...] This article is from the (RED) edition of The Independent, guest-edited for 16 May 2006 by Bono. Half the revenue from the edition will be donated to the Global Fund to Fight Aids. Published: 16 May 2006 May I say without guile, I am as sick [...] Bill Gates has given more to charity than any human being in history. Bono leveraged his celebrity status to entice the leaders of our richest nations to forgive $50 Billion in debt to poor countries. I wonder how many lives they have saved through their actions? “For being shrewd about doing good, for rewiring politics and re-engineering [...] If you are a middle class (or higher) American you live better than 99.4% of all the people who have ever lived, including those that are alive right now. This is according to Greg Easterbrook in his book “The Progress Paradox”. Apparently there have been approximately 80 billion people who have lived on earth until now. Most of them [...] We had a chance to watch the PBS/Frontline documentary on Walmart last night. Wow, was that eye opening! I had no idea that Walmart is bigger than Microsoft, IBM, HP, Dell, and Cisco put together. And I also had no idea that Walmart is responsible for exporting thousands (or possibly millions) of our jobs to China. Their constant [...] |
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