From Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway 2010 shareholder letter:
[Berkshire Hathaway via Kottke]
“America’s best days lie ahead.”
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Millennium Development Goals
posted in: Ape Con Myth, External Other, The Necessities
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“Adopted by world leaders in the year 2000 and set to be achieved by 2015, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) provide concrete, numerical benchmarks for tackling extreme poverty in its many dimensions.
The eight MDGs break down into 21 quantifiable targets that are measured by 60 indicators.”
[Check MDG progress and learn more at the United Nations Development Programme MDG home]
The Long Now Foundation
posted in: External Charts, External Other, The Time Bandits
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“The Long Now Foundation hopes to provide counterpoint to today’s “faster/cheaper” mind set and promote “slower/better” thinking. We hope to creatively foster responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years.”
(image from Long Now – click to enlarge)
Learn more at LongNow.org
Acceleration Studies Foundation
posted in: External Other, The Future Committee
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Seeking no less than “an informed, optimistic, and empowered world community”, ASF promotes “a multidisciplinary and critical understanding of accelerating processes of planetary and universal change, in service to better economic, political, social, professional and personal development.”
Learn more at Accelerating.org