Here, have $3,000,000,000,000 and spend it!
What appears to be an art project (or is it marketing?) is critiquing the cost of the USA invading and occupying Iraq. That’s right, it will cost $3 trillion to fight for oil, er, freedom. The website linked above is a challenge to see how well you can spend [...]
Category Archives: International Events
3 Trillion Dollar Spending Spree
April 30, 2008 – 11:42 am
Into the Future by Using the Past
March 12, 2008 – 8:55 am
To most people it looks like leaders in North America keep forgetting about global warming, well this isn’t all true. Brush the Bush and Harper conservative agendas aside and you’ll find other political leaders trying to save the planet. In Mexico, aboriginal leaders are looking into the ways of that their ancestors lived to help [...]
HIV/AIDS Drug Patent Revoked
January 30, 2008 – 9:52 am
Doctors WIthout Borders has released a press release that says that an HIV/AIDS drug can now be made generically. This will lower the cost of the drug allowing more people access to it, this is very important for people living in the developing world. The company that held the patent, Gilead Sciences, claimed to [...]
Japan Stops Whaling
December 22, 2007 – 10:29 am
This is without a doubt, really reat news. Japan has halted whailing for the year, after pressure from the Australian government. A hat tip to Kevin Rudd and his fellow Aussies for convincing Japan to change their ways.
The country’s chief government spokesman, Nobutaka Machimura, revealed the backdown at a news conference today.
Japan had planned to [...]
The Truth About Recycling
December 10, 2007 – 4:11 pm
The Economist looks into the truth about recycling and they have discovered some neat things. Of course, there are some complications with recycling, and it’s important to remind ourselves that nothing is perfect, but it’s good that we aim for perfection. Recycling is a really really good thing to do.
Based on this study, WRAP calculated [...]
Environmentalists Sue Harper, Bali Begins
December 3, 2007 – 11:03 am
I’ve never been shy about my dislike of Canada’s current Prime Minister and today won’t be any different. Regular readers of Things Are Good may have noticed that other countries get mentioned often here because their national government take positive action. Three nations, though, get mentioned not because of federal efforts but because of local [...]