1. 6 Jan



    But many worry that Guatemala’s poor are already suffering from the diversion of food to fuel. “There are pros and cons to biofuel, but not here,” said Misael Gonzáles of C.U.C., a labor union for Guatemala’s farmers. “These people don’t have enough to eat. They need food. They need land. They can’t eat biofuel, and they don’t drive cars.”

    In the energy debate, it’s still important to remember that whether you use “clean” energy or coal, have three cars or one, our greed causes pain. 

     

  2. 19 May



    '...The economy sags when kids who could have grown up to be physicists end up spending their lives brewing lattes at Starbucks. Or when a young woman born to be a teacher finds herself babysitting, for peanuts, while she waits for a classroom to open up.'

    (Source: thesmithian)

     

  3. 27 Apr



    The majority of documented deals are in Africa. Researchers say 754 deals have been identified on the continent, covering 56.2m hectares – or roughly the size of Kenya.

     

  4. 17 Apr



    Unemployment is relatively low in Columbia, Mo., thanks to its primary businesses; eight colleges and six hospitals, Murphy says. “Couple that with the fact that 80% of households are dual-income, which is the highest in the country, and you understand why it’s No. 1.”

    Fun fact of the day: Columbia, Mo. ranked the #1 hardest working city in America.

     

  5. 10 Sep



    There were 14m unemployed workers in August. The $447b stimulus package could be used to generate a check of almost $32,000 to each and every one of them. As a condition of receiving that check, they would be asked to work at some organization, for profit or nonprofit, for one year. These jobs would last just as long as the stimulus package and some of them would no doubt turn into real jobs. Isn’t this a plan everyone could support?
    — Steve Allen — via Greg Manikew. (via evanfleischer)

    (Source: evanfleischer)

     

  6. 31 Jul



    Warren Buffett on the the wealthiest 1%

    ajfaultlines:

    “If you’re in the luckiest 1% of humanity,” he once said, “you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99%.”

    - Warren Buffett qtd. in Sunday Star Times

    (More from the article: “But it is also a matter of enlightened self-interest. He knew that in the long run he and his class would benefit from living in a fairer society. The rich do better when everyone does better.”)

    (Source: stuff.co.nz)

     

  7. 13 Jul



    I think something else, something new — something that will require our kids not so much to find their next job as to invent their next job — is also influencing today’s job market more than people realize.