Tony K’s got something to say

(HT:  mi amiga Ruth)
Check out Free Rice.  The site is a English vocab game that donates 10 grains of rice through the UN to developing countries for every answer you get correct.  The funds are provided by the companies advertising on the site.  Take a look at the current tally.
The genius is the spin–turning charity […]

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Congrats to CGD on launching Carma.org: Carbon Monitoring for action. The data collection is incredible and the visual display does a great job of showing this as Global issue.
So go check out the site, grab some data and go make a difference!

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This is a great speech I recommend reading, you can also watch the video.
June 7, 2007
President Bok, former President Rudenstine, incoming President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, parents, and especially, the graduates:
I’ve been […]

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From this morning’s BBC:

China has unveiled its first national plan for climate change, saying it is intent on tackling the problem but not at the expense of economic development…
China’s role in the debate is crucial, as many analysts believe it could overtake the US this year as the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases…
China’s new […]

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Citibank has pledged $50billion over the next
Citigroup will on Tuesday commit to providing $50bn (£25bn) to environmental projects during the next decade in Wall Street’s boldest statement of the business risks and opportunities presented by climate change.
The world’s largest financial services group will commit to increase 10-fold to $10bn its planned investment to reduce its […]

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If you want to tap into some serious thought power check out TED: Ideas Worth Spreading.
What is TED?

TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader.
The annual conference now brings together […]

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Looking the Other Way on Immigrants in today’s WaPo highlights how some local communities are creating local Bills of Rights for immigrants.
In the aftermath of a series of raids in 2004, the town council in this historic borough of 5,300 — transformed in recent years by an influx of at least 1,300 Latin Americans — […]

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