by Mark Ray | May 28, 2014
Honestly, if you asked me to find Latvia on a map, name its capital, answer whether it was or was not part of the EU – I’d have had no idea. Latvia is a Baltic country, bordered by Lithuania, Belarus, Russia and Estonia. Norway and Sweden are just across the Baltic...
by Mark Ray | May 19, 2014
Ok, we might not have 54,000 reasons to celebrate, but we didn’t pull that number out of thin air. #DidYouKnow that 54,000 STDs are contracted daily? Yeah, we were shocked by the number too. This statistic and more is why awareness campaigns like National Women’s...
by Mark Ray | May 14, 2014
5 more ways to get the American Dream Back The following is excerpted and adapted from Who Stole the American Dream? by Hedrick Smith. Step 6: Push China to Live Up to Fair Trade Economists estimate that strong action by the United States and other countries to...
by Mark Ray | May 6, 2014
5 ways to get the American Dream Back The following is excerpted and adapted from Who Stole the American Dream? by Hedrick Smith. Over the past three decades, we have fallen from being the envy of the world, with the most affluent middle class of any place on Earth,...
by Mark Ray | Apr 25, 2014
There is no shortage of sadness and unease at the state of America today. What happened to our deeply imperfect, yet in many respects, more hopeful and less deeply divided country? While our past is littered with the story of a country flawed by slavery, poverty and...
by Mark Ray | Apr 21, 2014
The Sustain website is now LIVE. Pre-order some awesome, sustainable, Fair Trade condoms and spread the love ! We are excited to finally launch the site and will continue to share updates with you as we roll out at retail locations this...
by Mark Ray | Apr 2, 2014
Running for the senate, Elizabeth Warren elegantly distilled her logic of why wealthy individuals and multinational corporations need to pay their fair share and give back to the country that has given them so much. “There is nobody in this country who got...
by Mark Ray | Mar 14, 2014
Being able to use contraception has had a significant impact on the quality of women’s lives, particularly by providing them with the economic autonomy to pursue goals, like becoming financially independent and obtaining a college degree. These insights were...
by Mark Ray | Mar 6, 2014
Associate Business Editor Caroline Fairchild in The Huffington Post recently made the argument that not only is a $12 minimum wage affordable, but it would actually help our economy. A report from non-partisan public policy center Demos looked into the effect...
