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February 23, 2010

Does charity work like carbon offsets?

First, let me just say that it sounds like carbon offsets are a guilt salve more than anything else. If you saw the piece in Harper’s Magazine, it’s hard to be optimistic that offsetting carbon does much more than make lay people feel guilty and make smart people scheme about how to create another derivatives [...]

September 8, 2009

An antidote for cynicism

As some of you may vouch for, I’m often working out my personal duality, bouncing back and forth between hands-in-the-air cynicism and body-clenched optimism about, oh, the world. And every once in awhile, I post pieces here that I’m using to help keep myself, if not centered, at least from boinging around like a cue [...]

April 30, 2009

So you wanna help Africa? Here's how. (Hint: It only takes $10. But you gotta be fast.)

Some of you might remember my series on grassroots reconciliation in Sierra Leone. Fambul Tok is a local program in every sense–started by a Sierra Leonean, run by Sierra Leoneans, and welcomed by villages that want to use their traditional culture to help overcome the legacy of war. It’s not a requirement of the UN, [...]

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