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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]