Tag: Ethiopia

Science and Technology Links (Environment Edition)

Feb 2, 2014

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mwkruse

in Environment, Links – Science and Technology, Politics, Public Policy, Science, Technology (Energy), Trends: Economic, Trends: Social

I'm playing catchup with a backlog of links to be posted. This list pulls together a subsection of science and technology links dealing with the environment. 1. Bloomberg: Warring Dogmas Block Climate-Change Progress … In 1981, [Julian] Simon proposed a bet. [Paul] Ehrlich could name any five metals, and by the end of the decade,…
Renting a read from ‘newspaper landlords’

Apr 21, 2011

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mwkruse

in Africa, Business, Economics

CNN: Renting a read from 'newspaper landlords' Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (CNN) — Garum Tesfaye is one of Addis Ababa's "newspaper landlords," a group of entrepreneurs in the Ethiopian capital who rent out papers to people too poor to buy them. Surrounded by worn-out copies of old newspapers, stacks of gossip magazines and the crisp print…