Dec 19, 2007
Van Jones, a green economy activist and founder of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, describes how US corn ethanol subsidies have created a dangerous perversion of the food prices. The great ethanol swindle: Ethanol is supposed to saves the environment by offering a renewable source of energy (corn and sugar), but the truth
Dec 12, 2007
Uber video blogger Robert Scoble announced today at LeWeb3 in Paris that he is leaving Podtech for greener pastures. Scoble is best known for his blog, Scobleizer, which came to prominence while he worked as a technical evangelist at Microsoft. He co-authored (with Shel Israel) the book Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way
Dec 10, 2007
Jennifer Corriero, co-founder of TakingITglobal.org, describes innovations to their Online service that helps young activists The site, claiming hundreds of thousands of visitors each month from countries around the world, aims to help students and young people improve the world through organized community action. Activist toolkit TakingITGlobal gives advice and offers online tools for organizing
Dec 9, 2007
In this video, Leslie Maasdorp and I speak about the program we just attended that Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government created for the World Economic Forum‘s Young Global Leaders. Entitled Global Leadership and Public Policy for the 21st Century, the program has been described by the World Economic Forum and written about by Harvard, so
Dec 3, 2007
Thanks to a chance encounter with Jimmy Buffett in the Paris newsroom of the International Herald Tribune last May, I convinced him to come out to Hong Kong on January 18 to give a charity concert for the FCC Charity Fund. The fund, which I co-founded a few years ago, raises money to educate the
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Thomas Crampton was a correspondent for the
International Herald Tribune and The New York Times for more than a decade, reporting from five continents, writing a column on Asia and covering Asian politics, economics and culture. Currently based in Hong Kong, he writes here about China, the Internet and New Media seen from Asia, while also advising companies on digital communication strategies. For more information click here...
