Guest post by Victoria Randall, author of City of Hidden Children My new hero is Manoj Bhargava, the founder of 5-Hour Energy, who has pledged to give 99 percent of his $4 billion net worth to charity. But he’s not just tossing money at the poor to help them. He has decided to make a […]
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Hungry Parasites
Guest post by Jasbir S Jagdeo, author of The Shreds of Character It has always been said that we are slaves to our stomachs. We do whatever we do, basically, to insure against hunger. No matter how much a man has, he needs more to keep his anxiety in control. The fear of that day […]
Poverty in Other Times
Guest post by Angela Rosemary, author of Dating Calamity Most of us have lived in times of excess. My parents did not, though life had changed dramatically by the time I came along, when my parents were in their 40’s. My mother was quite young when her father took a job with Inter Mountain Coal […]
Alternate Energy Means More Milk for the Poor
Guest post by Charles Vrooman, author of The True Virus You’ve seen the ads saying “Got Milk?” well cows can give us much more. How about “Got Watt?” yes we can get electricity from cow manure. Dairies are using methane digesters to collect gas from manure to produce electricity. This means that dairies can cut […]
Feats of Imagination
Guest post by Ted Kelsey, author of OLGA I haven’t been back for a year. Yes, a year. I volunteered distributing food, and it was exactly a year ago at Thanksgiving when I handed out my last turkey. I stopped for reasons outside of my control. My wife started working on the weekends. I needed […]
Is it okay to steal food…if your starving?
Guest post by Nicholas Brookland, author of No Rest for the Weary If a certain individual has exhausted all possible means of obtaining food (this could also apply to medical equipment, shoes, tools etc) and is in desperate need of food, without which they will die, is it okay to steal the food to survive? […]