The value of good sanitation
From the NY Times, Poor Sanitation in India May Afflict Well-Fed Children With Malnutrition: [A]n emerging body of scientific studies suggest that … many of the 162 million … children under the age of...
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Disconnection of water services because of failure to pay due to lack of means constitutes a violation of the human right to water and other international human rights. - Office of the UN High...
View ArticleNot a happy day
From The Washington Post, Why the escape of numerous Ebola patients in Liberia’s worst slum is so terrifying: People gathered near the entrance of an Ebola isolation unit, where dozens of patients,...
View ArticleHonor Labor
Yesterday my daughter asked what I’d be doing at work tomorrow (i.e., today). I told her I didn’t have to go to work because it’s a holiday, Labor Day. She asked what Labor Day is. We’ve talked...
View ArticleDougald Hine, What do you do, after you stop pretending?
From Dougald Hine, What do you do, after you stop pretending?: ‘Changing the world’ has become an anachronism: the world is changing so fast, the best we can do is to become a little more observant,...
View ArticleLabor Day Must Listen: “Why Do We Work?”
One of the segments on WBUR’s On Point this morning, “Why Do We Work?” From the teaser: We work to live, we live to work. Most of us lucky enough to have a job give most of our waking hours to our...
View ArticleWeekly Digest – November 6, 2016
Must Read Paul Kingsnorth and Dougald Hine, Walking on Lava Eric Chandler, Crater in Mosul From ‘Walking on Lava’: Those who witness extreme social collapse at first hand seldom describe any deep...
View ArticleThe “Let’s all pull together to save the country.” thing didn’t quite come to...
Jon Lovett back in August of 2015 thinking he was writing satire, Looking Backward on the Presidency of Donald Trump: “It was the terrific leader of India, Gandhi, who said, ‘First they ignore you,...
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