Mandela: “A traveler through a country would stop at a village and he didn’t have to ask for food or for water. Once he stops, the people give him food, entertain him. That is one aspect of Ubuntu but it will have various aspects. Ubuntu does not mean that people should not address themselves. The question therefore is: Are you going to do so in order to enable the community around you be able to improve?”
50% of humanity still lives below the poverty line, and the problems over food for the world are worsening alarmingly. Sixty thousand people die of hunger and poverty every day. The Right to adequate food, the Right to drinking water and the Right to satisfy basic needs, including infrastructures, now clearly demonstrate the global urgency of something that morally can no longer be postponed. Only meeting those Human Rights effectively can ensure the right to human life. In this sense, it is particularly important to avoid new sources of energy (bio fuel, etc.), which attract much investment, do not reduce the production of food, nor put up its price.
Bill Clinton: “All you need is Ubuntu”
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Today marks the twenty-ninth anniversary of the Three Mile Island nuclear accident that occurred on 28 March 1979 at 4:00 am. This was the worst accident in the history of the U.S. nuclear power industry, and not a single new nuclear power plant has been built in the United States since that date.
Products and services generated by a business represent just one facet of industry greening. The way these products and services are generated represents the real meat behind greening a workplace. Another side to businesses’ environmental goals is revealed through how a company uses print products. Items such as business cards, inventories, packaging and more all contribute to environmental waste, especially if those items aren’t treated with an eye toward lower energy costs, less waste, and the inevitable goodwill among environmentally-aware consumers.
Well I’m happy - When San Francisco, London, and Sydney turned their lights off for an hour for a show of support for protecting the environment within the past year, I thought that this little stunt was both elitist and petty. Why just one city at a time? What is one hour going to accomplish? Wouldn’t it be better if everyone turned their lights off? Now, it’s going to happen.
