Re-Gain

There is various silent civil wars happening around the globe. Numerous battles are happening on many fronts: between the North and South  hemispheres; with the haves versus those without; and other human battle fields.  Most of the affluence and wealth resides in the North.  Now we have the one percent rich and those who have each day try to keep their heads above the waters of debt.  Forty years ago I wrote a graduate paper at George Washington University on the this gap and economic growth. In the last four decades income disparity has accelerated, and this planet keeps getting warmer.  As each of our rich and poor nations make it through each day, the melting at the poles increases. Now industrial North does not want to fully shell up the cash to help the South lessen their emerging carbon impact. Those third world Southerners have HIV, malaria, malnutrition, and sanitary threats distracting them to best act.   Just keeping our population in chec...

This time every year in Washington D.C. federal agencies throw away hundreds of millions of good products in the trash.   Our nation’s government discards a bountiful amount of materials to benefit in their next year budget cycle.  This is called "use it or lose it.”   This form of waste is not uncommon with many organizations.  There is nothing efficient about this practice to discard so to stimulate your next year budget.  35 years ago I was the D.C. first recycling coordinator. I observed huge amount of perfectly good materials such as furniture and chairs trashed because of a new budget cycle.   If only the Feds could reward saving things and instead of discarding them.  It is ironic that we invest hundreds of billions of dollars in defense programs or homeland security while investing a tiny fraction in our very earth’s survival.  Our industrial facilities generate yearly 7.6 billion tons of non-hazardous industrial waste.   ...