Daniel Lubetzky

Governments should be a lot more assertive about rooting out spam, phishing, viruses, and scams.  While private sector solutions address this, the amount of waste that it is creating on the system – and just the environmental cost of added server activity for all this dirty trash – is enormous.  Below is a picture of [...]

From an article in the NYT by Ron Lieber, good financial advice from unusual sources – religious: Those who structure their standard of living to allow a little surplus control their circumstances. Those who spend a little more than they earn are controlled by their circumstances. They are in bondage. By N. Eldon Tanner, Church [...]

Noa and Mira Awad, friends and supporters of the OneVoice Movement, are representing Israel in the EuroVision contest.  Here is a glimpse of their inspiring song:

One of the best efforts I have seen at explaining the way we are consuming and living beyond sustainability in this world comes from The Global Footprint Network.  At the Skoll World Forum a couple weeks ago, Mathis Wackernagel handed me a business-card sized brochure that very poignantly and clearly explains how consumption in the [...]

The holy grail for environmentally conscious manufacturers and consumers is truly bio-degradable effective packaging.  While the biggest threat is in plastic bottles and packaging materials that overwhelm our landfills, even small wrappers add up. The challenge to manufacturers is that the very things that make wrappers good – impermeability, sealing out oxygen to prevent oxidation [...]

Check this out for confirmation of the human potential of the most unassuming: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY

There are some people in the world that you are just grateful for them being around.  Jeff Skoll is one of them.  He is the most unassuming, down-to-earth, self-effacing guy, and at the same time among the most accomplished, brilliant, strategic, successful and deeply committed to make this a better world. I have been following [...]

Nassim Nicholas Taleb highlights the dangerous (and inequitable) way the US Government and other countries have handled the recent abuses that brought out the financial crisis: 2. No socialisation of losses and privatisation of gains. Whatever may need to be bailed out should be nationalised; whatever does not need a bail-out should be free, small [...]

This chilling link from Yad Vashem is worth viewing.  It shows an actual photo album that details the process of dehumanization followed at the Auschwitz Extermination Camp.  Organizational precision has never been so effectively deployed towards such methodic dehumanization.

Check out the below! A while back I blogged about a hilarious controversy pitting two churches against each other – on the question whether Dogs go to heaven.  Each affirmed they did – or didn’t – in church signs.  I actually thought these were real – and I guess a few commentators did also. Well, [...]