“I have heard cocoa beans are used to make a kind of food young children love. People say the taste is sweet,” the 25-year-old said, standing in an orchard full of yellow cocoa pods.
Source : Guardian
Tag: Global
Bauhaus: a blueprint for the future:
For years the Bauhaus building was known to the wider world mostly through a few black-and-white photographs that stress its more easily copied details, but miss the point that it was a framework for the creative energy of the school.
Source : The Guardian
The Tribes of Androids and iPhones
Though big cities have more than their share of trailblazers, with gentrification they’re attracting wealthier and more risk-averse, group-oriented types,” says Richard Florida, author of “The Rise of the Creative Class,” which explored the question of which cities are most creative and why. “Hipster urban cultures can be just as monolithic, homogenous and creativity-squelching as any other,” he says.
Source : WSJ
The unintended consequences of Nick Kristof’s anti-sex trafficking crusade | Aziza Ahmed | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
We must interrogate when advocacy puts lives at risk and shuts down HIV services for the most marginalized. Kristof has become the pied piper of anti-sex trafficking efforts for many well-meaning people and organizations in North America and beyond. To follow without question is dangerous.
Source : The Guardian
Women’s Voices from Quito
The campaign was an initiative of the city of Quito, but has reached a national scale — it has gathered more than 11,000 original letters, according to the latest counts. The campaign is already exhibiting its results in Quito’s Contemporary Art Center. Once it is over, the most representative stories will be disseminated through radio and television and even become cinema productions. The most important expectation from the campaign, though, is that the city’s government policies on gender will be inspired by real problems and effective solutions coming from these letters.
Source : Polis
Coca-Cola in Africa
But Coca-Cola’s strategy goes deeper than the coat of red and white paint. The corporation is responsible for sales infrastructure, supplying signs, ice boxes, refrigerators (if electricity is available) and bottle openers. It encourages owners to pair the beverage with local snacks to create “combo meals.” It helps — usually just a man with a push-cart — make their routes more efficient. It teaches business skills and promotes entrepreneurship.
Source : Polis
UN calls for overhaul of global financial system to benefit the poor
“Financial sectors have already returned to many of the old practices, even as public finances deteriorate and the recovery stalls,” he said. “Austerity measures are back on the agenda and resistance to financial regulation has begun in earnest.”
Source : The Guardian
A typical day for a Japanese bank
“There are interesting parallels between Japan and the UK. Both are islands with a limited and stable population. They have their own currency and they are a former power with lots of history. Their banks and corporations now make most of their profits overseas, which they repatriate for tax reasons.
Source : The Guardian
When villains go viral
Angelo Izama, an award-winning Ugandan journalist and political risk analyst, isn’t convinced it means anything at all – or anything good, anyway. “A moment like this has a kind of placebo effect,” he says. “These simplistic views make it very difficult to make people address a situation that is really complex. It helps the status quo. But the status quo has failed.”
Source : The Independent
Quote of the week
Human life confronts itself in its entirety through books and culture. In the the short term, the loss in quality is evident, yet this cannot be remedied by restoring the narrow humanism of the classical period. – Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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