Idea a lot of people are excited about corn and other “plant- based” packaging without realizing that some of them are only compostable in commercial sites (of which there are very few) and that many end up in landfills. The wide spread misnomer that these utensils are “easily biodegradable” is also fueling the “use and [...]
Plastic bags, Plastic bottles, clothes spilling out of the drawers, food rotting in the fridge and junk mail piling up on my door step! The amount of waste I have generated in the past three months seem to have quadrupled!… The massive portions at restaurants, the mammoth quantities in which most household items have to [...]
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Business incubation in Africa
“Almost 60 percent of new businesses fail within the first 5 years in operation. But startups nurtured within an incubator has an 80 percent chance of surviving,” Jim Robbins, an incubation guru who was formerly part of the ford foundation incubation team – the nation’s largest incubator said. At present he is a partner of [...]
In search of a place to call home
“Obviously we have no money, We are going back. We cannot staying here anymore,” Jabbar Sattar said in a tired voice. Jabbar a former Iraqi translator for the US military procurement unit embedded at the Iraqi Defense Ministry in Baghdad came to the US 14 months ago with his wife and two sons. In 2006 [...]
From child combatants to symbols of hope
By Poornima Weerasekara in Ambepussa “Kindness will help you make friends,” the bold print hung on a lime green wall is the first thing that grips your attention as one enters the administration building at the Ambepussa rehabilitation centre for ex-child combatants. Tucked away in a lush green alcove, in Wahawita Ambepussa, about two and [...]
City in tug-of war with downtown businesses over development
MENLO PARK – Mayor Richard Cline recently said that a group of downtown business owners have launched a “silent but stealthy cold war” on two key development projects in the city. Downtown businesses and property owners that have dominated the cityscape for decades are resisting high density office and real estate development along Santa Cruz [...]
Toy soldiers…
Skin scorched, eyes stinging, breathes heavy as lead They marched on for La république They complied and didn’t complain! but what did the “Republic” do to them in return? Years of agony, unknown ailments families suffering, and no compensation? But why – for what? all for the glory of scientific discovery – of the “physiological [...]
