Posted by Steve Cohen | May 14, 2009 | 0 Comments
Recently, New York Times reporter, Leslie Kaufman wrote an excellent story on an interesting and important video called “The Story of Stuff”. Kaufman writes that: “The video is a cheerful but brutal assessment of how much Americans waste, and it has its detractors… The video was created by Annie Leonard, a former Greenpeace employee and [...]
Posted by Kyu Lee | Apr 21, 2009 | 1 Comments
A slot machine turning up three lemons is how Jeffrey Sachs described the global economic crisis at Haverford College last week. “Three ‘uns’: It is unstable, unfair, and unsustainable,” he said. “It’s the life-and-death struggle of the poor, and the plight of the planet.”
“You are the answers,” he told the audience. “This crisis is an [...]
Posted by Kyu Lee | Mar 17, 2009 | 1 Comments
Flashback for a second. Though it may seem like long time ago, it’s been a mere 2 months since Obama took the oath. A lot has changed since. On the evening of January 20, the President and the First Lady whirled through his new backyard stopping off at several different parties, one of which was [...]
Posted by Editor | Mar 11, 2009 | 0 Comments
Jeffrey Sachs speaks with BBC Africa Slowdown at the IMF conference in Dar es Salaam.
