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December 1, 2014

Many, many thanks!

Thanksgiving has always been my favorite holiday. The only gift that’s required – is the giving of thanks. We can never have to many opportunities to re

November 18, 2014

And the rich keep getting richer!

It’s true. A picture is often worth a thousand words.   In Neil Irwin’s New York Times story he cites two charts from Thomas Piketty’s Capital i

October 28, 2014

Birth control pill turns male fish into females and led to near extinction of fish in lake

Reported by Aly Thomson in The Regina Leader-Post, the study, being published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, found that introducing small

October 21, 2014

Fairer Trade: Rubber Giant to Hear Villagers’ Complaints

More than 15 months after a Global Witness report revealed that Vietnam’s state-owned rubber giant, the Vietnam Rubber Group (VRG) had illegally cleared land

October 9, 2014

Five Reasons Why I Love Greenpeace

A couple of weeks ago, I finished our annual Board of Directors retreat at the Garrison Center north of New York City. The two days I spent with the staff and o

October 1, 2014

The Voice of Small Business Is Ringing True

There is still one thing both sides of the aisle agree on: Small businesses are great for the economy. After all, there are 23 million small businesses in the U

September 19, 2014

Making Shit Up

We live in confusing times. Desperate to believe that what we think we know to be true, is in fact, the truth. The alternative is much too scary – but ess

September 5, 2014

Are we still the greatest?

Maureen Dowd, one of the best Op-Ed writers to ever grace the pages of the New York Times, often strikes at the heart of the American dilemma capturing our curr

August 29, 2014

Rating America: 16 Things That Need Work

The World Economic Forum recently released, “The Global Competitiveness Report 2012-2013,” that ranks 144 countries, on everything from “Organized Cr

August 22, 2014

Wall Street: A Culture of Greed

23 percent of finance industry insiders say they have observed wrongdoing in their workplace. A new report on financial industry insiders about ethical conduct,

August 15, 2014

Is Corporate Responsibility Dead? 2.0

I think I first asked this question in 2009. My answer was – not dead, but dying. Dying because it no longer represented any clearly defined goals. There was

August 8, 2014

One in four students contracted a STI during their first year of university!

Yes, that’s right – one in four! Lucy Miller, writing in The National Student, http://www.thenationalstudent.com/Student_Health/2013-10-22/Why_are_w