Monthly Archives: September 2008

Hire a community reporter through crowdfunding

Citizens of the San Francisco Bay area can now hire journalists to investigate issues relevant to their community. Spot Us, a new nonprofit initiative, uses the principle of crowdfunding by allowing people to vote for and finance story ideas that they judge interesting. The articles are then posted on the website and given or sold [...]
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Eat less meat to stop climate change?

Remember the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, that UN group of scientists that said that climate change is due to human activity? Apparently they’ve decided to give the world one or two advices on how to reduce carbon emissions. They want us to eat less meat because meat production generates to much pollution and cows [...]
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