Monthly Archive for November, 2010

Is Profit the Only and Best Metric?

I have some reservations about the notion that everything must be monetized for profit.  I am confident that both Benjamin Franklin and Adam Smith would have soundly rejected this monotonic focus on “profit”.  My limited experience in working with in development at the bottom of the pyramid is that for profit efforts create a situation [...]

Impact of Religion & Law on Family

Dr. Farooq Hassan Barrister at Law, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court Pakistan, (QC), Attorney at Law,   (US), Special UN Ambassador for Family, Professor, Harvard (Synopsis of address given at the International Conference on Family as a Value: In Religion, Tradition And Modernity” on 26-27 November 2010. Antalya/TURKEY organized for the Journalists and Writers Foundation by [...]

Introduction to iCans for Educators

    Basic natural draft pyrolysis and biochar with simple iCan stoves. What can I do with one can? I can make a stove I can cook a meal I can make biochar I can be carbon negative I can start to change the world That’s why I call these stoves iCans iCans for Educators [...]

They Fund by Night

This country is being run for the benefit of alien life forms. They’ve invaded; they’ve infiltrated; they’ve conquered; and a lot of the most powerful people on Earth do their bidding, including five out of our nine Supreme Court justices earlier this year and a whole lot of senators and other elected officials all the [...]