Birthdays Are Big – So is Poverty

Contrast this. This August, financier Leon D. Black celebrated his 60th with a blowout at his oceanfront estate in Southampton. After a buffet dinner featuring a seared foie gras station, some 200 guests took in a show by Elton John, who was paid at least $1 million...

Forget the Minimum Wage

Any business that considers itself responsible and sustainable must pay its employees a living wage. Not a minimum wage – a living wage. In many American communities, families working in low-wage jobs make insufficient income to live locally given the local cost of...

The Great Disruption

“You really do have to wonder whether a few years from now we’ll look back at the first decade of the 21st century — when food prices spiked, energy prices soared, world population surged, tornados plowed through cities, floods and droughts set records, populations...