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Express News Service BENGALURU: Climate change is real, and it is exploding right now in front of us. And yet, most of us are ignoring it and some are denying it. We are already suffering the consequences-floods, droughts, cyclones, hurricanes, forest fires-not to mention the migrant crisis, and the almost-routine farmer suicides. But the world is split on the way forward. Books on climate change put forth contrasting points of view-eastern vs western; political vs moral; technological vs relig...

Capital Issue By WILLIAM GOETZMANN Stocks captivated the American imagination in the 1920s in a fundamentally different manner from the British investor movement of the Victorian era.… The Foreign and Colonial Government Trust was fashioned to capture high average bond yields, not capital appreciation of shares. Keynes was an exceptional early advocate of equities as the future of finance, but he was a bit ahead of his time in Britain. But in US, tastes turned sharply toward equities. America...

Thomas Prior An office park on the outskirts of Austin, Texas. On her third day as the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Marcia Fudge phoned the White House. She had taken over an agency with a role to play addressing a range of crises as the lack of affordable housing in U.S. cities has left hundreds of thousands homeless and millions more in financial straits. She connected with Joe Biden’s climate team. Fudge and Gina McCarthy, Biden’s national climate a...

Sacrifice zones April 12, 2021 On April 4, the Hip Hop Caucus, a nonprofit advocacy group that tackles issues relating to health care, education and environmental and social justice, launched a public petition urging Congress to pass legislation that protects communities of color from the health risks posed by environmental degradation. The petition is co-sponsored by several other advocacy groups, including Progress America, Friends of the Earth Action, Coalition on Human Needs, Evergreen Ac...

NationofChange ‘Sacrifice zones’: How people of color are targets of environmental racism A product of environmental racism, “sacrifice zones” are located near pollution hot spots and are usually communities of color. , a project of the Independent Media Institute. The Black Lives Matter movement and the COVID-19 pandemic have highlighted how systemic racism disproportionately places danger and harm on low-income and minority populations. One harsh reality of this systemic r...

How people of color are targeted in sacrifice zones (Photo credit: wisepig/Flickr) A slew of enormous petrochemical facilities shape the skyline and pollute the environment along the Mississippi River corridor. The Black Lives Matter movement and the COVID-19 pandemic have highlighted how systemic racism disproportionately places danger and harm on low-income and minority populations. One harsh reality of this systemic racism is the existence of "sacrifice zones," which are ...

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Forbes School of Business & Technology® Center for Womens Leadership to Host International Womens Day Events March 5‒12 events focus on resilience and feature a distinguished lineup of global women leaders. News provided by Share this article Share this article SAN DIEGO, March 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The Forbes School of Business and Technology® Center for Womens Leadership will celebrate International Womens Day with a Week of Resilience, March 5‒12, 2021. All events will be hosted ...

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Forum: Should we continue to celebrate Texas Independence Day? Jerry Patterson By joint resolution, in 1871 the 14th Texas Legislature established March 2 as an official Texas holiday to commemorate the adoption at Washington-on-the-Brazos of the Texas Declaration of Independence. Since then, many millions of Texas schoolchildren have been taught that March 2, 1836 is no less significant than July 4, 1776. The day is often celebrated with parades, ceremonies, and children’s choirs singing �...