From Nicholas Kristof’s Geezers Doing Good: “Some 78 million American baby boomers are now beginning to retire, and one survey this year by a research institute found that half of boomers are interested in starting…new careers with a positive social impact. If we boomers decide to use our retirement to change the world, rather than [...]
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“Peter Singer’s Solution to World Poverty”
December 12, 2007 – 03:09 pm
From Peter Singer’s Solution to World Poverty: “In the following essay, Singer offers some unconventional thoughts about the ordinary American’s obligations to the world’s poor and suggests that even his own one-fifth standard may not be enough.” [Hat tip to Dawn for the link]
Buy a Laptop for a Child, Get Another Laptop Free
September 25, 2007 – 10:15 am
From NY Times’ article, Buy a Laptop for a Child, Get Another Laptop Free: “One Laptop Per Child, an ambitious project to bring computing to the developing world’s children, has considerable momentum. Years of work by engineers and scientists have paid off in a pioneering low-cost machine that is light, rugged and surprisingly versatile. The [...]
Start…to save the world.
June 19, 2006 – 12:17 pm
Neowin.net has posted Bill Gates’ e-mail to employees. While he writes a bunch of non-interesting stuff, one thing he did say was that Microsoft has doubled revenues in six years and generated over a billion dollars in profit every month.
IN PROFIT!!!!
EVERY MONTH!!!
That’s just damn ridiculous.
No wonder the man is retiring to work full-time for [...]
