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The average American eats 67 pounds of beef a year (or about 1/10th of a cow). Problem is, that takes 167,500 gallons of water, 1072 pounds of grain, and 3.35 acres of land to produce...
Robert HenreichThe World Bank and the Nike Foundation launched a new $20 million program to help teach women in developing nations job skills. It will start in six African and Middle Eastern countries.
“Investing in young women is one way to break the inter-generational pattern of poverty,” World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick said at the bank’s D.C. headquarters. “It’s the right thing to do, and it’s also going to be smart economics.” “This is a movement. It’s taken off,” said Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, a managing director at the World Bank. The President of Nike said, “Our greatest resource overall in breaking the cycle of poverty is the adolescent girl,” he said. “We’re building a bridge between relevant training and real jobs that helps accelerate the economy.”
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Buyer Beware. At the end of September, the USDA quietly halted a program called the Agricultural Chemical Usage Program. The program’s purpose was to measure pesticide use in fruit and vegetable crops. The reason cited for the move was cost...
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I Plant Trees, a non-profit organization, is dedicated solely to reforestation in the United States. The organization recently created a sponsors link using Google AdSense. AdSense uses a "pay-per-click" advertising format. A spokesman with the organization said, "this is a great way for us to generate funds for reforestation!"
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