Daniel Lubetzky

Interesting: A new study from the RAND Corporation examined how 648 terror groups around the world ended between 1968 and 2006. It found that by far the most common way for them to disappear was to be absorbed by the political process. The second most common way was to be defeated by police work. In [...]

Thomas Friedman contrasts US energy policy and US behavior to the way Danes live and have structured their lives to be energy-efficient, and almost energy-independent. New York Times, August 10, 2008 Op-Ed Columnist Flush With Energy By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Copenhagen The Arctic Hotel in Ilulissat, Greenland, is a charming little place on the West [...]

Russia’s authoritarian dictator-in-building Vladimir Putin has been getting high on the fumes of oil revenues that Russia is reaping from the West (US consumers are propping him and others like Iran’s Ahmadinejad and Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez up). The oil boom has helped Russia’s economy thrive for the last few years. This, plus weak leadership from [...]

And the corollary to the earlier post is that obesity in children has reached epidemic proportions, causing Type 2 diabetes and many other health complications that stay with them beyond childhood for the rest of their lives. There are other key health challenges to children, that the food industry needs to tackle… What drives the [...]

A report last week from the Federal Trade Commission found that the makers of soda, fast food, cereals and other products spent $1.6 billion in 2006 on marketing aimed at children and teenagers. …While almost $500 million a year is spent on soda advertising, only $11 million is spent on ads for fruit and vegetables. [...]

The NYTimes Week In Review had two excellent articles on the situation in Russia today and its conflict with Georgia. August 10, 2008 The World Today’s Kremlin: Too Elusive for a Solzhenitsyn? By ANNE BARNARD MOSCOW — In the week since Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn died, much has been written about how the writer who exposed the [...]

Thanks to Stacy Perman for a profile about PeaceWorks, KIND, and OneVoice in BusinessWeek yesterday.   Viewpoint August 6, 2008, 1:03PM EST text size: TT Making Social Entrepreneurship Matter Daniel Lubetzky’s "not-only-for-profit" business has created profitable joint ventures with Palestinians and Israelis. His model deserves attention by Stacy Perman I recently came across an article [...]

Consumers are increasingly demanding that manufacturers replace high fructose corn syrup with natural alternatives, such as cane sugar, agave syrup, or as in the case with KIND, honey and glucose.  Research has confirmed that High Fructose Corn Syrup is more fattening than other sugars like sucrose and glucose.  And high fructose corn syrup is cheap [...]

Khaled Diab wrote a nice article about OneVoice‘s Imagine 2018 project, asking Palestinian and Israeli kids to visualize what their lives will look like in 10 years IF a peace agreement is achieved between Israel and Palestine. Imagine if the kids took over, The Guardian The future would look very different if we put the [...]

A study from Cornell University demonstrates a correlation between junk/unhealthful food and energy costs.  Artificial stuff, junk food and red meat all require more energy and natural resources to produce than fruits, nuts, veggies, etc.  So by eating real foods, you are not just helping your health – you are also helping reduce greenhouse emissions. [...]