From the monthly archives: September 2007

About a month ago, I wrote a post on the book “A Billion Bootstraps” and briefly discussed the concept of Microcredit. Since reading the book earlier this year, Amy and I have been actively researching Microcredit and sizing up the best angle and mechanisms for us to get involved. Coincidentally about two weeks ago, we saw a special on [...]

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  For those of you not local to Chicago or the Lake Michigan area, there was a recent upheaval around Indiana’s state regulators granting BP a permit allowing it to dump 50 percent more ammonia and 35 percent more suspended solids into Lake Michigan. Ammonia feeds oxygen-sucking algae blooms that kill fish, and the suspended [...]

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