Month: May 2010

Crossposted from the Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet. In this regular series, we profile advisors to the Nourishing the Planet project. This week, we feature Dave Andrews, Senior Representative for Food &...

“As they say on my own Cape Cod, a rising tide lifts all the boats.” -John F. Kennedy “Rising tides don’t lift all boats, particularly those stuck at the bottom.” -Reverend Jesse Jackson President...

The Brown-Kaufman amendment to the Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010 was a bit of a blunt instrument. It created caps so no individual bank could hold more than 10% of the country’s insured deposits nor...

My parents retired to Arizona over a decade ago. My two children, as many of you know, are half Japanese (my wife’s parents immigrated to the US in the Fifties) and half a mixture of Northern European ancestry (German,...

. Gordon Brown and Labor Party suffered a major defeat to David Cameron and the Tories. A poor result for Labor not witnessed for 80 years. Nick Clegg of the Liberal Democrats won big during the three election debates and...