Love this story about a Toronto man who created an app that makes it easier for restaurants and catering companies to reduce food waste by donating it to shelters and charities.
According to the article, so far his company has diverted approximately 15,000 kilograms of food waste — enough to feed 25,000 people.
I hope this company or something similar starts operating in more cities across North America!
Not everyone realizes how close our democracy is to failing here in the US, yet we are at a make-or-break moment where we can still do something about it 🧵
Fueled by white nationalist doctrines and playbooks, GOP leaders at federal and state levels are encouraging and stoking violence, voter suppression, and treason...
I went to space and discovered an enormous lie | Ron Garan
What astronaut Ron Garan saw in space changed his life forever – here’s what it taught him.
A curious phenomenon often occurs when astronauts travel to space and look out on our planet for the first time: They see how interconnected and fragile life on Earth is, and they feel a sudden responsibility to protect it.
Time and again, we see CEOs and similar executives make horrible decisions that massively damage a company both financially and in terms of reputation and the perpetrator is forced to resign, yet receives so much money as a going away present you'd think they're being rewarded for their fuck up. Why??
Enjoying the book Making History by Richard Cohen. One chapter on Edward Gibbon states: “Empires crumble…because they meet the Five Horsemen of the Apocalypse: climate change, migration, famine, epidemic, and state failure”.
Oh crap.
"Let me put it this way: if you made $10,000 a week – a princely sum by the standards of most people – you would have to work every week from the year of Jesus’s birth until this week to earn over a billion dollars. To earn as much as Elon Musk’s net worth at that rate – currently $180bn, according to Forbes – you’d have to work every week for more than a third of a million years – that is, since before Homo sapiens first emerged in Africa....
... billionaires are a menace to the rest of us: their sheer political size warps our public life. Disproportionately older, white and male, they function as unelected powers, a sort of freelance global aristocracy who are too often trying to reign over the rest of us. Some critics think that the supergiant tech corporations that have spawned so many modern billionaires operate in ways that resemble feudalism more than capitalism, and, certainly, plenty of billionaires operate like the lords of the Earth while campaigning to protect the economic inequality that made them so rich and makes so many others so poor. They use their power in arbitrary, reckless and often environmentally destructive ways."
“These [need-for-chaos] individuals are not idealists seeking to tear down the established order so that they can build a better #society for everyone,” the authors wrote in their conclusion. “Rather, they indiscriminately share #hostile#political rumors as a way to unleash #chaos & mobilize individuals against the established order that fails to accord them the respect that they feel they personally deserve.”
Privately-managed giant corporations are very bad for society. Such giant entities should not be managed by a few people, for the benefit of a few people, because they affect everyone.
They should be managed by society, for the good of society.
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Why are Golden Parachutes a thing?
Time and again, we see CEOs and similar executives make horrible decisions that massively damage a company both financially and in terms of reputation and the perpetrator is forced to resign, yet receives so much money as a going away present you'd think they're being rewarded for their fuck up. Why??