One of every three bites of food eaten worldwide depends on pollinators — especially bees. So why are we so flippant about bee die-off? What can be done and what IS being done to stop it?
What Jill Stein Gets Wrong About Sustainable Investing
A recent article in The Daily Beast featured a takedown of Jill Stein’s personal investments, in which she was accused of hypocrisy, and included the following statement: “Many critics say clean-energy and socially responsible investment funds offer a poor rate of return and should generally be avoided.”
Dr. Stein’s defense included the statement that she has “explored” more socially responsible funds but “found their investments in fracking and large-scale biofuels not much better than the non-green funds. I have not yet found the mutual funds that represent my goals of advancing the cause of people, planet, and peace.”
Jill Stein can easily be forgiven for believing what she was told about green, sustainable funds, because conventional front line investment professionals often say these things to their clients.
What Will Millennials Tell Their Children & Grandchildren?
In less than two weeks, Hillary Clinton will be elected president.
Donald Trump’s vulgar outbursts and invective against our society’s most marginalized have run their course. His strain of demagoguery has done irreparable harm to the Republican Party. As a result, the GOP may lose both the House and the Senate, and could give Clinton the seats necessary to enact her policy prescriptions.
Yet no president entering the White House has been more detrimental to millennials than Hillary Clinton. She supported trade agreements which transported America’s manufacturing base into countries that welcome corporations with open arms. She supported legislation that incarcerated an entire generation of young African American men and women. She sent millennials to every armed conflict since 9/11, and she associates with the very corporate forces that brought the American economy to its knees in 2008.