Efficient Economics: The Blueprint for a Sustainable Future
At its core, economics is simply the study of efficient resource management. While we humans often complicate this straightforward concept, its fundamental principles offer us a blueprint for creating a world where everyone has enough without destroying our planet in the process. One of the most powerful tools economics gives us is the framework of […]
Clean Environment Players: It’s Economics Stupid
The problem doesn’t lie with just governments, corporations or humans or any other single entity. It’s a complete and systemic failure of humanity. For all of our wonderful inventions and advances, the net impact on this planet and our place in the universe has undoubtedly been negative. We’ve taken, taken and taken and given so little back.
Blast from the Past
In light of the recent bailout brouhaha, here’s two posts from the past that are highly relevant still. The first is a post featured on this blog, Prose of a Pol, and is a satirical look at how to obtain universal healthcare for everyone in the USA based on how the banks were bailed out. […]
Must Impeach! Cheney-Bush Have Too Much Time Left!
Two videos for you tonight. First up is a video warning us that President hijack Bush and Vice-President Halliburton Cheney have too much time on their hands to mess up our country even more. Of course, any time war criminals have any time is too much time! What makes little sense is that if Congress […]
Elect a Democrat? Five Reasons This Video Confirms Why I won’t Vote Democrat (nor Republican)
For today’s post, please first watch this video, entitled “Elect a Democrat”: If the above did not load, please try the quicktime version. Now, this video brings up a few points and I’ll blog about how these points exemplify a few of the reasons I won’t be voting for any Democratic candidates during the upcoming […]
The Environmentally Damaging City of Boston Recycling Program
Globalization is not a bad idea. In fact, free global trade (which the linked post argues does not currently exist) is a wonderful concept that would improve living conditions for the majority of earth’s inhabitants and is necessary for humans to survive. However, globalization creates oddities such as the below pictures. Everything looks good, right? […]
I Hate the Federal Reserve
I just received an e-mail from the Executive Vice President of HSBC Direct informing me that HSBC is once again dropping the interest rate on my online savings account, this time from 3.55% to 3.05%! Aaargh! At least it’s only dropped by .5% but it’s still frustrating, especially considering the savings rate started at 5.05% […]
Economics Battle: President Bush versus Facebook Users
Who do you think knows more about basic economic theories and principles, President George Walker Bush or a mass of facebook users? In a democracy, we subscribe to the idea that the majority knows better than a principled few. So from a democratic perspective, the facebook users should know more about economics than President George […]
To The Ron Paul Spam Brigade
While scrolling through my Akismet blocked comments for any possible non-spam comments that got blocked, one comment caught my attention for it’s lack of link spam. Usually, blocked comments are obviously spam because they have about 10-20 links to some dubious pharmaceutical product or pron site; however, this comment had merely one link, and seemed […]
Ray Anderson: Personal, Corporate, Societal Leader
As Interface Carpets’ mission focuses on environmental sustainability, Ray Anderson’s leadership style shows evidence of both ethical and servant strategies. Since the environment is a resource shared by and endowed to all humans and life on earth, any company which disproportionately uses environmental resources for its own benefit, especially in a harmful manner, is acting […]
Modern Globalization: The Perversion of the Word Free
Although Wayne Ellwood considers the transatlantic journey of Christopher Columbus the initiation of globalization, it’s true origins may lie even deeper in human history, dating all the way back to the origins of humanity in Africa, and their subsequent journeys to other continents. Though technology at the time prevented these early humans from creating vast […]
3 From Every Tree: My Favorite Blog Project Entries
Last week, I wrote a post about 3 Useful Del.icio.us Tags, Life Quotes, & Traffic Generators, which was part of a blog project contest hosted by Daily Blog Tips. Well, the full list is up and after reading through all 115 entries, it’s obvious there’s a lot of quality bloggers on this list! You can […]
Freakonomics versus Economics
I usually won’t post twice in a day (or so I say), but a post entitled, What is it about Polish people and lines?, by Steven D. Levitt, co-author of the uber-popular, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, really got me ticked off tonight! Steven recently went on a trip to […]