No higher death risk in long-term coffee drinking on Yahoo! Health

No higher death risk in long-term coffee drinking on Yahoo! Health

How to nap - Boston.com

How to nap, who knew?

The Food Chain - Worries Mount as Farmers Push for Big Harvest - Series - NYTimes.com

Apparently we cannot plan for the unexpected. So who thought using food for gas for cars was a good idea?

Op-Ed Columnist - David Brooks - The Great Seduction by Debt - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com

Another piece hitting the nail on the head, good to see that root cause is mostly identified here rather than just the content providers.

BBC World News - The World Debate - Food - Who Pays The Price?

From EGR Blog
Dwindling food stocks and rising food prices raise questions about who produces our food and how.

Urbanization, climate change, changing diets in emerging economies and the impact of supermarkets are putting new pressures on the land and changing the face of farming.

One solution is to support the hundreds of millions of smallholder farmers in developing countries. Yet just when they’re needed most, many smallholder farmers are finding it difficult to make a living and are leaving the land.

Should food be treated as a global commodity? Is industrial scale farming the best way to meet global demand and protect the environment? Or could and should more be done globally to protect small independent farmers and the food they produce?

BBC World brings together six international panelists considered some of the most important issues effecting the future of global food production in the BBC World debate “Food – Who Pays the Price?”. Click and watch above.

Op-Ed Contributor - A Fountain on Every Corner - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com

Can someone do an actual study and estimate the economic impact here? Bottled water has always freaked me out anyway, and without aggressive recycling laws it surely is a waste. What's up with importing water from Fiji anyway?

The Neural Buddhists - New York Times

Ideas from David Brooks about the collision of religion and science.

"In unexpected ways, science and mysticism are joining hands and reinforcing each other. That’s bound to lead to new movements that emphasize self-transcendence but put little stock in divine law or revelation. Orthodox believers are going to have to defend particular doctrines and particular biblical teachings. They’re going to have to defend the idea of a personal God, and explain why specific theologies are true guides for behavior day to day. I’m not qualified to take sides, believe me. I’m just trying to anticipate which way the debate is headed. We’re in the middle of a scientific revolution. It’s going to have big cultural effects."

Tips for taming rising grocery prices | Special Coverage | Reuters

Some nice tips here for maybe saving some cash in the food line. The coupon thing does work, been there done that.

Food and the poor | The new face of hunger | Economist.com

I picked this up from the EGR blog, stupid people suck!
No matter where I turn it seems our issues get bigger because we cannot seem to all get along and sit down and talk about stuff before we do something.

We can ease the burden of high food prices on the most vulnerable people

Leadership, at least at this time in discussion about the global food issue. Several points are made to link poverty in here.

Clueless in America - New York Times

"An American kid drops out of high school every 26 seconds. That’s more than a million every year"

"Roughly a third of all American high school students drop out. Another third graduate but are not prepared for the next stage of life — either productive work or some form of post-secondary education."

"When two-thirds of all teenagers old enough to graduate from high school are incapable of mastering college-level work, the nation is doing something awfully wrong."

Bob Hebert of the NYT points to what must be a root cause for many of our societal issues. One would think I suspect that a better educated population would better be able to think thru and talk about and then ultimately address and solve the "other" issues we waste so much of our breath on.

Across Globe, Empty Bellies Bring Rising Anger - New York Times

Let me spoil this article for you with the ending.

"Meanwhile, most of the poorest of the poor suffer silently, too weak for activism or too busy raising the next generation of hungry. In the sprawling slum of Haiti’s Cité Soleil, Placide Simone, 29, offered one of her five offspring to a stranger. “Take one,” she said, cradling a listless baby and motioning toward four rail-thin toddlers, none of whom had eaten that day. “You pick. Just feed them.”"

May God Make Speed To Help Us
May God Make Haste to Save Us

Carl

Feature: Top 10 Ways to Trick Out Your Desktop

for reference

Toil and Trouble - New York Times

I should just have a permanent link to Maureen Dowd's articles. I heard some testimony and am starting to read the rest of the coverage, but my guess is she is spot on.

"What One Can Do" - The Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation blog: "Augustine said, 'Be what you see, and receive who you are.'" - by Stephanie Rho

"What One Can Do" - The Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation blog: "Augustine said, 'Be what you see, and receive who you are.'" - by Stephanie Rhodes

I loved this post today because it calls me to my own accountability for what I say and do as well as who I am. And just because I am something by birth or genetics does not remove me from being me, especially when 'we' manage to muck things up.

ONE » Blog Archive » New ONE Ice Cream Launching in Burbank in a Few Hours

ONE » Blog Archive » New ONE Ice Cream Launching in Burbank in a Few Hours

The boys back home in Vermont have come on board the ONE campaign with what sounds like a great new flavor. Cannot wait to see on the shelves here.

Feature: Trim Down Windows to the Bare Essentials

Feature: Trim Down Windows to the Bare Essentials
Excellent find by my friend Ken, just what you need to minimize the damage of an XP install to your mac.

Rwanda Genocide Victims, Killers Meet

Rwanda Genocide Victims, Killers Meet

The possible success of the MDG's is detailed here by current situations in Rwanda. Horrific stories of genocide frame the article's beginning before the relationship between economy/poverty are tied to the wars and genocides of the continent.

A Not-So-Fine Romance - New York Times

A Not-So-Fine Romance - New York Times

An excellent dialog piece on the situation with Tibet and China. Also a very nice calling it what it is part on the US and China similarities.

Entered the world of blogging

Well, I am officially a blogger I guess having decided to take on a monthly gig with my friends at E4GR. The link takes you to the post and this one takes you to the regular E4GR blog site. I still have quite a bit to figure out, so lock and load.