October 2011
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Samsung's 21th Century Investment: Green...
#paceblog—It’s good news when the world’s largest information-technology firm incorporates some idealism and social responsibility into a new, competitive business vision and investment. The Economist - Seoul - October 1, 2011 “[Samsung] intends to spend $20 billion over ten years on solar panels, light-emitting diodes (LEDs) used for lighting, electric-vehicle batteries,...
September 2011
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Are we ready for Humanity 2.0?
#paceblog—Or did we usher it in? Warwick University Professor Steven Fuller, author of “Humanity 2.0: What it Means to be Human, Past, Present and Future,” explained his theory in a recent interview with The Guardian as “an understanding of the human condition that no longer takes the ‘normal human body’ as given.” And according to Fuller, we have embraced...
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“Over the past week I’ve twice heard twenty-somethings wonder whether kids...”
– Raul Gutierrez (via bobulate)
Hands Off: My First Feminist Action →
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Low on Battery and on Cash
Yesterday, the balmy Autumn-like morning inspired a trip to the Peekskill, NY, farmers’ market to check out the harvest and, possibly, come away with some video or images of the city—which is quite a hopping place on Saturday mornings. I drove to the city tuned to WNYC, and two of my favorite voices—Ella & Satchmo—filled the air with “Autumn in New York”...
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Down Broadway and to the River
The City of Newburgh, not unlike many others, screams with contrasts. I’ve worked there for close to a decade. Some days I drive around saying, “I gotta get out of this town,” others, I feel very fortunate to know it and its people. For all the profound socio-economic woes that plague its communities, the constant news of drug and gang-related violence and raids, it’s a place...
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Got beautiful old dresses and gowns?
A woman in Nairobi Kenya knows what to do with them, and you can help her grow her home-business and provide for her family in the process.
Read Nicholas Kristof’s Sept. 14 NYTimes’ column, “Can Old Dresses Help a Kenyan Dressmaker?” to find out how to get your dress to Jane Ngoiri. And give some thought to this sentence from Mr. Kristof:
“while [Jane’s]...
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UNICEF Report: Gender-Inequality and Long-Term...
Some of the findings of a UNICEF report just released in New York:
“girls are significantly more likely to be married as children (under 18 years of age) and to begin having sex at a young age.
“Young women are less likely to be literate than young men and are less likely to watch television, listen to the radio and read a newspaper or magazine.
“young men are better...
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Today's Must-Read
“Would you rather cut Social Security and Medicare or pay a little more per gallon of gas and make the country stronger, safer and healthier?”
Asks New York Times’ Thomas Friedman (and movie buffs will love Friedman’s first paragraph). There’s a lot of religious-like fervor around the idea of paying for what we spend—think Eric Cantor and Hurricane Irene...
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Laughter is still the best medicine
Laughter—we don’t practice it enough! What makes us laugh, why we love it to the point of paying for good laughs—it’s all a mysterious and funny sort of thing to me. How about the fact that our funny bone can be aroused through more than one of our senses? But I hadn’t thought of it in the context of evolution, even if “laughing like a monkey” is the only...
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Whose 9/11?
Around mid-day yesterday, I flipped through all the news-network channels available on my cable package, and, as I expected, even BBC World News and Euro News were tuned to 10th anniversary commemorations of 9/11. News coverage involved much talk about the unity of spirit the events of that day continue to evoke, epitomized in side-by-side images of the two leaders of “the war on terror”:...
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Imagining Change on 9/10
New York, September 10, 2010—The day before the 10th anniversary of 9/11, when some of us might like to remember the world before it—or imagine a world without it—we are also being asked to imagine a different kind of rocking change to our world: “What Would a World Without a US Postal Service Look Like? asks Andre Tartar in New York magazine. “No more mail? What would Ben Franklin think?” asks...
