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Action to cut single use plastic bags and packaging 2025
11/27/2024
Efforts to end the use of single use plastics that are a threat to health and the environment, land, rivers and oceans. The use of plastic water bottles has worsened the crisis. Supermarkets are slow in the US to ban plastic bags showing need for prudent regulation. Talks in Busan, South Korea, in Nov 2024 to find a solution to the plastics proliferation crisis. The plastics industry including plastics makers and recycling companies say things are under control with recycling goals, yet reports show only 30% of plastics is being recycled each year in 2024, and going back to the beginning of plastics 2 decades back only about 10% has been recycled.
Grouped Articles
Inside the Plastic Industry’s Battle to Win Over Hearts and Minds
NYTimes.com 11/27/2024
Washington Post 06/10/2024
China Tries to Stem the Flow of Its Plastic Waste
WSJ 01/20/2020
Plastic Water Bottles, Which Enabled a Drinks Boom, Now Threaten a Crisis
WSJ 12/12/2018
New York Businesses Anticipate Plastic-Bag Ban
WSJ 02/27/2020
Supermarkets in France forced to ditch plastic and set up ‘refill stations’ selling unpackaged goods
The Times 04/01/2021
The Future of Work - worklife balance, Feirabend, (breaking off from work at 5.01), 30 hour weeks and longer careers
09/13/2023
What does the future of work look like. Ideas from Laura Carstensen of the Stanford Center for Longevity who says rather than follow an outdated norm of education in the early part of life, work in the middle part of life and leisure in the latter part of life, it makes sense to mix education, work and leisure throughout life. Feierabend is the German practice of breaking off from work at 5.01 pm so that one can go outdoors for exercise and fresh air. All this with nutrition and exercise, healthy living, contributes to a more productive satisfying life that includes time for family, parents and children.
Grouped Articles
Biden and his "Biggest bill on Climate Ever, Ever, Ever"
09/03/2022
The $369 billion Biden Bill on Climate is the biggest bill ever. It was put through with Biden's fellow senators and his long experience in the Senate of the US through the efforts of Senator Coon and Hickenlooper who took a new approach to negotiating with Senator Manchin appealing to his place in history and in the party. Biden said while signing the bill "Joe I never doubted for a moment." Senator Schumer of New York did the negotiations and persevered till the end when Manchin was on board. Adjustments were made to allow increase in drilling to bring down oil prices to create a win-win for all so that it could be called The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 as pharmaceutical prices would also come down with the government retaking the right to negotiate pharmaceutical prices lost under Republicans. It is also a Win for Europe, India, and the World.
Grouped Articles
Biden Signs Expansive Health, Climate and Tax Law
NYTimes.com 08/16/2022
Biden Signs Climate, Health Bill Into Law as Other Economic Goals Remain
NYTimes.com 08/18/2022
What’s in Joe Manchin and Chuck Schumer’s Reconciliation Deal on Climate, Health and Tax Policy?
WSJ 08/12/2022
Climate Bill Aims to Boost America’s Charging Network to Meet Rising EV Demand
WSJ 08/12/2022
Opinion | Bill Gates: We’re on the Verge of a Remarkable Moment for Congress and the Country
NYTimes.com 08/07/2022
Democrats’ Climate and Tax Deal Closes In on Passage
WSJ 08/05/2022
Children and mental health during the coronavirus pandemic- search for solutions
10/09/2021
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One in six children aged 5-16 in England 'likely to have a mental disorder'
The Guardian 10/22/2020
Revealed: anti-vaccine TikTok videos being viewed by children as young as nine
The Guardian 10/08/2021
How Other Nations Pay for Child Care. The U.S. Is an Outlier.
NYTimes.com 10/26/2021
Foundational learning took a hit amid Covid, only 19% schools have access to internet: UNESCO report
The Indian Express 10/05/2021
Facebook Knows Instagram Is Toxic for Teen Girls, Company Documents Show
WSJ 09/14/2021
Web giants ‘fuel child mental health crisis’
06/14/2018
How women can navigate the waters to find a family friendly workplace and get men to share in household chores. This is important for women's Mental Health.
09/24/2021
During the pandemic women increasingly stayed at home while men continued to work. Figures from Bureau of Labor Statistics show women ended up with doing even more household chores than men in 2020 compared to 2019. As a result women during the coronavirus feel worn out or burned out in addition to losing income. WSJ offers ways women can tackle this problem both by getting men to share in household chores, and finding employers who are family friendly as the coronavirus pandemic declines in 2022.
Grouped Articles
How to Find a Family-Friendly Workplace
WSJ 09/24/2021
Women Still Do More of the Housework. Here’s How to Share the Load.
WSJ 09/23/2021
Kick the sugar habit
07/17/2021
Healthy living means no more than 6% of daily calories of 2000 calories a day should come from sugar intake. During the coronavirus pandemic poor health habits mean pouring gasoline on fire. It is morally indefensible and a sign of a backward country that the the health guideline is set at 10% in the US. The mean consumption of sugar today in the US is 13%. In teaspoons about 6-8 teaspoons of added sugar is the healthy limit, at 16 calories per teaspoon this is 96 calories to 120 calories from added sugar. In grams this is 24 grams at 4 grams per teaspoon of sugar. It is critical to make it a habit to look at packaged foods labels and make intelligent choices. And to simply cut the sugar we add in tea, coffee or drinks by a third or a fourth. Good habits = good health. It is also critical to start this with public education in schools from K1 to high school.
Grouped Articles
Boris Johnson must help us kick our sugar habit
The Times 07/17/2021
Beware sugar highs: seven healthy ways to get more energy – from stretching to sourdough
The Guardian 04/05/2021
New Limits Urged on Americans’ Sugar Consumption Amid Rising Obesity Concerns
WSJ 10/05/2020
Make 2020 the Year of Less Sugar
NYTimes.com 01/06/2019
World War II- the Forgotten Men and Women of India, America and Mexico
09/09/2020
Indian pilots and army numbering 2.5 million who fought aginst Japanese in Imphal, and Germans in Italy. The black women who performed postal duties in Europe for 17 million pieces of mail in the war in England to be delivered to soldiers in Europe, and later at Rouen, France. The Mexican pilots of the 201st squadron attached to the Fifth U.S. Air Force.
Grouped Articles
Who is Dr. Harlem Brundtland? Compared to her does the WHO today flunk, and even Dr Fauci, Dr Redfield fall short
05/20/2020
Dr. Harlem Brundtland was head of the WHo during the SARS crisis which originated in China in 2003. Her swift action included questioning China's suppression of the openness of its scientific and medical community at the time, alerting the world to take action to control the epidemic. The U.S. clearly brings up Dr. Brundtland as the model that was not followed in its letter to the WHO of May 18, 2020. Dr. Redfield, head U.S. CDC was alerted by Dr. Gao Fu head of China's CDC and its medical scientific community on Dec. 31, 2019, and through Dr. Redfield the American medical scientific community including Dr. Fauci, in an early warning of what was to happen. Dr Brundtland is a three time prime minister of Norway starting with the first term in 1981 and ending with the third term in 1996. She was head of the Labor Party and had a distinguished record including her work in climate change, sustainable development and other issues. The WHO earned much respect under her leadership of the organization.
Grouped Articles
‘The only way forward for WHO is...’: Full text of Trump’s letter to WHO chief
Hindustan Times 05/19/2020
A Failed Deception: The Early Days of the Coronavirus Outbreak in Wuhan - DER SPIEGEL
SPIEGEL ONLINE 05/20/2020
Trump gives WHO ultimatum over virus handling
BBC News 05/19/2020
Underreporting on coronavirus in China and the false sense of security in the U.S., Sweden, Japan, India
04/22/2020
Grouped Articles
Opinion | China Still Misleads the World on the Coronavirus
WSJ 04/13/2020
Five tests that will guide us out of coronavirus lockdown
The Times 04/30/2020
Travel From New York City Seeded Wave of U.S. Outbreaks
NYTimes.com 05/07/2020
Millions of coronavirus infections left undetected worldwide – study | DW | 08.04.2020
DW.COM 04/08/2020
False tradeoff between economy and lockdowns- the pandemic economics of the 1918 pandemic
04/06/2020
Grouped Articles
Opinion | Bet Big on Treatments for Coronavirus
WSJ 04/05/2020
Venezuela's crisis in 2019 with over 1 million percent inflation and 3 million refugees
02/28/2019
Grouped Articles
Opinion | Jorge Ramos: The Dictator of Venezuela Earns His Title
New York Times 02/27/2019
U.S. Tries to Squeeze Venezuelan President by Revoking His Allies’ Visas
New York Times 03/07/2019
Health innovations for Africa, Asia, Latin America- Japanese Okigusuri, the medicine kits for pay as you use by cell phone for distant villages
01/24/2019
Grouped Articles
JapanGov - The Government of Japan 01/24/2019
The first year of the administration of Brazil's president Jair Bolsonaro
01/03/2019
Grouped Articles
Brazil’s New Conservative Leader Moves to Revamp Economy
WSJ 01/02/2019
Why Brazilian farmers are burning the rainforest — and why it’s difficult for Bolsonaro to stop them
Washington Post 09/04/2019
The World Bank and Africa, Global South- $100 billion expansion and new vision supported by Modi and Biden
10/14/2023
Prime Minister Modi and president Biden put forward a new vision for the World Bank at the G20 meetings in New Delhi, India. This means the World Bank will expansion of funding of $100 billion and new task of development in poor counties of the Global South in Africa, Latin America and Asia.
Grouped Articles
A Bigger World Bank Takes on China’s Clout
WSJ 10/13/23
Opinion | Humanity Is Facing a Great Injustice. The World Bank Must Respond.
NYTimes.com 10/09/23
WSJ 06/22/23
Economist Adriana Kugler in Her Own Words
WSJ 05/12/23
World Bank President Malpass announces resignation – DW – 02/16/2023
dw.com 02/16/23
How 65% of students failing reading comprehension and 75% failing civics and history is holding back America.
05/19/2023
The scores on National Assessment of Education Progress NAEP show two thirds of students failing reading proficiency, similar math scores, and over 75% failing civics and history. This has a serious effect on everything in society- the ability to get good jobs, to increase incomes, to teach their own children to create a better future, for the overwhelming majority of Americans. This has not changed for about two decades and is only getting worse. Nothing that Silicon Valley or capital markets have done, or successive governments have done so far for 2 decades is changing this situation. What Biden calls the struggle for the Soul of the Nation has this as the probable cause because lack of reading comprehension affects everything and leads to serious deterioration and breakdown in society. What is sometimes called technology is not really technology, computers yes, but not social media which damages the capacity for clear thinking and in the young of mental health also or what passes for technology that takes everything to the lowest common denominator including Google Search as shown in Lyrarc's Movement for Global Literacy.
Grouped Articles
History and civics scores drop for U.S. eighth-graders on national test
NPR 05/03/23
National math and reading scores remain constant, but disparities emerge
Washington Post 04/11/18
U.S. student performance slips on national test - The Washington Post
Washington Post 10/28/15
Eighth-Graders’ History, Civics Test Scores Hit Record Low
WSJ 05/03/23
Test Scores Show Students Made Little Progress in National Exam
WSJ 04/10/18
The Great Stagnation in American Education
New York Times 09/07/13
Escaping the algorithm based social media platforms TikTok, Facebook and others
12/29/2021
If and how it is possible to escape the algorithm based social media platforms TikTok, Facebook and others, harmful for girls and the young, and to mental health, diversity, and education that leads to upward mobility, is the subject of a WSJ series in 2021.
Grouped Articles
The TikTok Spiral, Part 1: Descent - Tech News Briefing - WSJ Podcasts
WSJ 12/27/21
The TikTok Spiral, Part 3: Escape the Algorithm - Tech News Briefing - WSJ Podcasts
WSJ 12/29/21
‘The Corpse Bride Diet’: How TikTok Inundates Teens With Eating-Disorder Videos
WSJ 12/17/21
Teens Are Developing Tics. Doctors Say TikTok May Be A Factor. - The Journal. - WSJ Podcasts
WSJ 11/08/21
Facebook Faces Official Questions in India Over Policing of Hate Speech
WSJ 10/28/21
Facebook Whistleblower’s Testimony Builds Momentum for Tougher Tech Laws
WSJ 10/05/21
Nature walks, nature settings, as an essential way to boost mental health and wellbeing during the pandemic
10/09/2021
It is proven that just two hours a week of walks in nature setting in parks, natural settings, green areas, or forested areas, can be hugely beneficial for health and wellbeing during the pandemic. Long and recurrent lockdowns or partial lockdowns, closure of schools, loss of work and income, have had devastating effects on mental health in many countries. Much needs to be done to promote nature walks and bringing nature as a healing mechanism to take some of the burden off the overburdened health services of many countries. Awareness of this in the UK and funds + projects to do this can be a model for other countries.
Grouped Articles
Two-hour ‘dose’ of nature significantly boosts health – study
The Guardian 06/13/19
Oyster Shoreline at ‘Greater New York’ Has a Pearl of a Message
NYTimes.com 10/04/21
‘It took a year to get help’: generation Z on mental health decline
The Guardian 09/30/21
Natural health service: wildlife volunteers get mental health boost
The Guardian 10/02/17
Nature on prescription: wetlands project aims to boost mental health
The Guardian 05/13/21
‘These salt marshes saved my life’: how nature is helping mental health
The Guardian 10/09/21
Wall Street Journal Facebook Investigation and the Outrage Algorithm, Instagram's toxic nature for teen girls
09/21/2021
An algorithm that exaggerates the outrage online creating an angrier place on the internet is one of the findings of the WSJ Facebook Investigation. It shows broken policies, broken tech and broken management. The effects on women are equally insidious and dangerous for mental health.
Grouped Articles
The Facebook Files, Part 4: The Outrage Algorithm - The Journal. - WSJ Podcasts
WSJ 09/20/21
WSJ 09/15/21
Facebook Knows Instagram Is Toxic for Teen Girls, Company Documents Show
WSJ 09/14/21
Why Free Is Too High a Price for Facebook and Google
WSJ 06/08/19
WSJ 09/16/21
Biden’s Facebook Attack Followed Months of Frustration Inside White House
WSJ 07/18/21
Pope Francis and the call "not to return to the false securities of the political and economic systems we had before the pandemic."
11/27/2020
Two crises back to back in 2010 and 2020 which set back the working class, the middle class and the poor, and the neglect of capital allocation to healthcare, education, infrastructure. Pope Francis calls for a culture that feels others pain, that "gives access to all to the fruits of creation, to the basic needs of life: to land, lodging, and labor." See "Misallocation of Capital" in Top Stories for more coverage.
Grouped Articles
The World Health Organization in the crucial early weeks in January and February 2020- failure of the early warning system for coronavirus
06/03/2020
Grouped Articles
China withheld data on coronavirus from WHO, recordings reveal
The Guardian 06/02/20
Why Trump Is Taking On the World Health Organization - The Journal. - WSJ Podcasts
WSJ 05/23/20
Harsh Vardhan takes over as WHO executive board chief
Hindustan Times 05/24/20
A Failed Deception: The Early Days of the Coronavirus Outbreak in Wuhan - DER SPIEGEL
SPIEGEL ONLINE 05/20/20
Dr. Redfield, head of the U.S. Centre for Disease Control
05/20/2020
Grouped Articles
C.D.C.’s Dr. Robert Redfield Confronts Coronavirus, and Anger
NYTimes.com 03/13/20
A Failed Deception: The Early Days of the Coronavirus Outbreak in Wuhan - DER SPIEGEL
SPIEGEL ONLINE 05/20/20
Trump negotiated oil production cuts 2020 to keep oil prices from collapsing
04/13/2020
Oil demand falls by 30 million barrels a day by April 12. President Trump intervenes to get OPEC and Russia, the OPEC+, to negotiate production cuts. The U.S. makes cuts of its own.
Grouped Articles
North America’s Oil Industry Is Shutting Off the Spigot
WSJ 04/13/20
Oil Nations, Prodded by Trump, Reach Deal to Slash Production
NYTimes.com 04/12/20
China's suspension of agricultural imports from the U.S. in retaliation for Trump tariffs of 10% on additional $300 billion Chinese goods
08/06/2019
Grouped Articles
Farmers Built a Soybean Export Empire Around China. Now They’re Fighting to Save It.
WSJ 07/04/19
How a non-interventionist U.S. president decided to intervene in Venezuela
01/25/2019
The U.S. alongside Canada and most of Latin America, with EU support, moves to support new and credible elections in Venezuela under an interim government.
Grouped Articles
Intervening Against Venezuela’s Strongman, Trump Belies ‘America First’
New York Times 01/24/19
Opinion | Jorge Ramos: The Dictator of Venezuela Earns His Title
New York Times 02/27/19
U.S. Tries to Squeeze Venezuelan President by Revoking His Allies’ Visas
New York Times 03/07/19
Efforts to correct the deficit of $57 billion in Brazil's pension system under president Bolsonaro
01/03/2019
Grouped Articles
Brazil’s New Conservative Leader Moves to Revamp Economy
WSJ 01/02/19
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