Educating Women in Developing Countries
In response to my recent piece on population growth and sustainability, frequent commenter Chris Daum writes:
The main issue, as I see it, is the education and empowerment of women. Educated women have fewer, healthier children and are able to contribute more to their community than just being breeders. Unfortunately, many of the poorest countries with high birth rates have cultures/religions that are against such empowerment. How are they to be convinced of their self-interest gained by educating their girls and women? (more…)
I was lucky enough to see Hal Holbrook deliver his one-man show “Mark Twain Tonight!” on Saturday evening. Holbrook’s opening night was in 1954 (the year before I was born) since which there have been over 2000 performances. Let’s just make an understatement: he’s seriously good at this.
Yes, the audience is transported, but perhaps the most remarkable thing about the content of the performance is how little change there has been in our perception of the incompetence and corruption in government, which, of course, was the fodder for so many of Twain’s pithy remarks during his life.
It’s becoming increasingly important to find cars and driving habits that will reduce our dependence on traditional fuel, while limiting the amount of CO2 and other emissions produced by vehicles. Guilt-free motoring, both in terms of what our cars produce, and how much strain on our bank accounts it produces, is probably not going to happen anytime soon. However, hybrids represent one way of lowering your individual debt by investing in cars with dual electric motors and batteries. Hybrids are now a commonplace option for drivers, with all major car manufacturers producing them. 
