Join us on Facebook: http://www.fb.com/earthwithoutpoverty Sweden Now Recycles 99% of Its Garbage. There’s a “recycling revolution” happening in Sweden – one that has pushed the country closer to zero waste than ever before. In fact, less than one percent of Sweden’s household garbage ends up in landfills today. The Scandinavian country has become so good […]
Read more "Sweden Now Recycles 99% of Its Garbage."Join us on Facebook: http://www.fb.com/earthwithoutpoverty Economic growth more likely when wealth distributed to poor instead of rich. Having money from economic growth flow to poor people rather than the rich feeds into a lift in the rate of economic growth and lower unemployment. Conversely, as income inequality increases, the potential for economic growth is constrained. […]
Read more "Economic growth more likely when wealth distributed to poor instead of rich."Join us on Facebook: http://www.fb.com/earthwithoutpoverty Stained Underwear & Other Donation Nightmares. The Clothes 4 Help program run by the Indian-American NGO: Responsible Charity is upset and for really good reason. As you will see in the photos below, what might have started as a good deed has ended up in an embarrassing and shameful collection […]
Read more "Stained Underwear & Other Donation Nightmares."Join us on Facebook: http://www.fb.com/earthwithoutpoverty This NGO is Beating The System & Building Houses in Developing Countries. Last June, a brand-new nonprofit set a giant goal: Over the summer, they would crowdfund enough money to build an entire neighborhood—100 homes—for earthquake victims in Haiti. They raised the money in 90 days, and by this March ended up […]
Read more "This NGO is Beating The System & Building Houses in Developing Countries."Join us on Facebook: http://www.fb.com/earthwithoutpoverty What if the problem of poverty is that it’s profitable to other people? What if the dominant discourse on poverty is just wrong? What if the problem isn’t that poor people have bad morals – that they’re lazy and impulsive and irresponsible and have no family values – or that […]
Read more "What if the problem of poverty is that it’s profitable to other people?"Join us on Facebook: http://www.fb.com/responsiblecharity This shelter gives wine to alcoholics (and there are good reasons why) n a grey January morning at 9.15, residents of the Oaks shelter for the homeless started lining up, coffee mugs in hand, at a yellow linoleum counter. At half past the hour, the pour began. The Oaks’ residents […]
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