Archive for the 'Global Problems' Category

GiveWell: Real Change for your Dollar

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

GiveWell does a pretty unique job of finding out which charities it is worth donating to. Looks like it's hard to get enough information of various charities to assess their effectiveness because most of them aren't very open.

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How to Count ALL Human Carbon Emissions in the US

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

Dr. Kevin Gurey has made a fabulous lecture on the topic. It's very informative, it's full of statistical informations and has ideas to present the problem to the general public.

I think carbon emission trading is a good motivator which is necessary seeing the effects of global warming.

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King Corn

Monday, October 19th, 2009

I saw the above mentioned movie about two months ago and it had a profound effect on me. If you wanna know why is there corn in our hair, how is it possible that we spend half of the money for food as our ancestors and why diabetes rised dramatically during the last decades then you should watch this movie.

The creators of this movie were inspired by the work of Michael Pollan who seems to be a very wise man and I want to read some of his books in the future.

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The Earth from Above

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

I incredibly respect Yann Arthus-Bertrand because of his work to present the beauty of our planet and stand up for making the situation better regarding its most serious problems, such as climate change. I've first seen The Earth from Above series on Spectrum TV.

It looks like there is a Google Earth layer on his work and GoodPlanet.org is a central place to raise public attention on the important issues and offer solutions.

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CO2 offsetting

Friday, May 22nd, 2009

I quite like the Idea of CO2 offsetting. I'd like to have solar panels assembled to the roof of my house when I'll get more money. There are quite a few sites that are dedicated to this topic such as actioncarbone.org or carbonfund.org.

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