From the page: "he unfortunate thing is that poverty is so far removed from anything that middle-class America has seen that we tend to have a hard time truly understanding the magnitude of this problem. " - Max Gladwell
From the page: "With these products, the good people at Banyan help the poor benefit from global trade. As you can see below, the Smokey Mountain dump in Manila is home to many who live by scavenging, but with the help of microlending, women are able to turn "trash into cash" and make a better life for themselves and their families through these unique and beautiful bags." - Max Gladwell
What can you do? How about making a microloan of a $20, $50, or $100 to an entrepreneur in a poor country? Today is Blog Action Day, with blogs around the world making a concerted effort to raise awareness about global poverty and ways to fight it. What we've decided to do is to start a TechCrunch lending team at Kiva.org. Anyone can join. - Max Gladwell
From the page: "Kiva.org empowers entrepreneurs in the first world to help lift fellow entrepreneurs out of poverty in the third world." - Max Gladwell
From the page: "With more competition for shrinking philanthropic dollars, will the least-proven and most experimental forms of public funding - the peer-to-peer models we all work on - fall by the wayside?
I would argue that the answer is no - a strong, spirited âoeno!â as a matter of fact." - Max Gladwell
From the page: "The philosophy that appealed to Mr Wales was Objectivism, a strand of thinking associated with the author Ayn Rand. It colours everything I do and think, he says." - Max Gladwell
"It's not just Twitter. It's using Twitter in a specific way, namely to organize Tweets from a green event. We're using it at social media events in a big way. The green world has yet to adopt Twitter for its events with proper tagging." - Max Gladwell
From the page: "These are the tools and resources that individuals, corporations, and nonprofits alike can use to communicate, create, and connect on the social webâ¦for social change. " - Max Gladwell
From the page: "Baby Monarch caterpillars only eat milkweed, which means that adults need to lay their eggs on the underside of milkweed leaves- and those babies eat a lot! " - Max Gladwell
As a Mac addict I hope this isn't true. Even if it is, I'll have to make an exception and repent in some other way because there are no viable alternatives to using Mac computers. - Max Gladwell
From the page: "If only It were possible to lose weight while eating three gourmet meals a day in the comfort of my own home, without having to buy groceries, prepare food or clean up the kitchen." - Max Gladwell
Max School Bus (MSB) is the nexus of health and education. MSB covers topics that shape and impact learning environments, while helping to improve them through progress and technology. - Max Gladwell
From the page: "Search engine giant Google has taken a humanitarian stance, unveiling a $4.4 trillion plan to lobby for policy change on alternative energy that calls for clean power by 2030. This implies that all energy in the US would come from renewable sources." - Max Gladwell
From the page: "The talented Tina Fey once more reprised her role as Governor Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live last night. Queen Latifah played moderator Gwen Ifill. A cast member, Jason Sudeikis spoofed Joe Biden." - Max Gladwell
From the page: "Green everything is hot right now, and thereâs no sign that itâs going to slow down any time in the near future. What are your favorite sites for green living?" - Max Gladwell
From the page: "The folks at Google have a $4.4 trillion plan to remake America's energy landscape by 2030, eliminating coal from the picture and shaving emissions of greenhouse gases by 95%. Unlike some other ambitious plans to rejig America's energy mix, it comes with detailed prescriptions and pricetags" but how realistic is it?" - Max Gladwell
From the page: "A major shift to renewable energy and efficiency is expected to produce 4.2 million new environmentally friendly "green" jobs over the next three decades, according to a study commissioned by the nation's mayors." - Max Gladwell
From the page: "THE end of September saw a crisis on Wall Street and a garbled response from Congress. No wonder, then, that all eyes were trained on New York and Washington." - Max Gladwell
From the page: "Governor Arnold Schwarzeneggerâs office has invited China, India, European countries, Australia, Canada and Mexico to a meeting ahead of international climate talks the following month in Poland. Details still are being worked out." - Max Gladwell
From the page: "The âoegreenâ incarnation of travel, called ecotourism, mandates that travelers minimize their cultural, economic, and environmental impacts as much as possible to promote sustainability." - Max Gladwell
From the page: "If you're itching to take your struggling start-up to the big time, you could do worse than take Sun Microsystems' Chairman and co-founder Scott McNealy advice to heart." - Max Gladwell
From the page: "Thinking forward a few years, âoefriending peopleâ whether in Facebook, Plaxo, or will no longer be an activity that weâll have to do. " - Max Gladwell
From the page: "Keeping track of your carbon footprint could become as simple as slipping a mobile phone in your pocket: a London-based start-up company has developed software for mobile phones that uses global positioning satellites to work out automatically whether you are walking, driving or flying and then calculate your impact on the environment." - Max Gladwell
From the page: "When the going gets tough, the tough get going. Times are now tougher. Which makes most people head home. The half-hearted entrepreneurs, the wannabes who thought it was going to be easy, the folks with connections to VCs who could get a $5m Series A for a copycat app." - Max Gladwell
From the page: "Leave it to James Howard Kunstler to remind us of how bad things can still get...With all the volatility on the stock market today, and the dismal U.S. financial news, I thought it appropriate to turn to the post-peak oil apocalypse sage for some words of wisdom." - Max Gladwell
From the page: "Ideablob is another site that encourages creativity, doing so by awarding one innovative business idea each month $10,000. I wrote about it when it first launched last fall, and it's striking how many ideas since then are do-gooder in nature. " - Max Gladwell
From the page: "In this web-enabled world of ours, you have to wonder why business cards are still so popular. Shouldn't there be a better way? A number of startups have attempted to address this problem with ingenious solutions that range from iPhone apps to custom URLs. " - Max Gladwell
