Friday, May 16th, 2008
This post takes its name from this week's episode of This American Life. As always, these guys do a great job of putting together a solid and informative weekly public radio show, and this particular episode struck me so much that I felt like writing about it.
The episode itself deals with the sub-prime [...]
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Wednesday, June 13th, 2007
As we push towards a truly green and sustainable revolution, business people and ecologists are increasingly forced to learn one another's language. Since the inception of environmentalism as a movement, business and economic activity was implicitly viewed as anathema, cruel and unresponsive, and responsible for the destruction of the natural world. Now, as climate change [...]
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Saturday, July 29th, 2006
After returning home I was struck by a loss of words. There is always the irreconcilable gap that exists between a world falsely divided between First and Third: the scarcity of abundance, the desperation that borders on social collapse; then, in an almost transitionless moment (save for the interminable waits in [...]
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Saturday, March 18th, 2006
Upon arriving in Cochabamba, one of the first things I notice is that the sidewalks are full. At mid-day, high school students congest the sidewalks, talking, laughing, flirting, and then walking off in smaller groups to some other destination.
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Wednesday, March 8th, 2006
Today is International Women's Day. To start, it's important to recognize that women are still the most marginalized majority group in the world today. The statistics tell the story: 70% of the world's 1.3 billion poor people are women; 80% of the world's refugees are women; a mere [...]
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