I have a black Patagonia backpack that I use for travel and work. It wasn't cheap but I've had it for years and it's just like new. Since I've moved to Michigan, I'm going to have to buy my winter coat and even if it might cost me $400, I'm getting one, so worth it, to me.
@jsr78 when i saw your post, i was like, "what?" And then i read the link you provided:
Was just about to drop a link here this morning from the NY Times about this remarkable man. Finally some unequivocal GOOD news! He hopes other companies will begin to use their enormous profits for socially-responsible causes like climate change which affects us all (are you listening Jeffrey Bezos??). Perhaps this is the early birth of a "newly-evolved form of Capitalism", one which recognizes that social responsibility and greater good must play a vital part too.
Patagonia Founder Gives Away the Company to Fight Climate Change - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
Was just about to drop a link here this morning from the NY Times about this remarkable man. Finally some unequivocal GOOD news! He hopes other companies will begin to use their enormous profits for socially-responsible causes like climate change which affects us all (are you listening Jeffrey Bezos??). Perhaps this is the early birth of a "newly-evolved form of Capitalism", one which recognizes that social responsibility and greater good must play a vital part too.
Patagonia Founder Gives Away the Company to Fight Climate Change - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
Well, in retrospect Patagonia is not the first: Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, MacKenzie Bezos and others have chosen to be so generous toward worthy causes with their fortunes... but it's so heartening to think that this elite group of socially-conscious billionaires may be widening and may, one day, even become "the norm".
Warren Buffett is a railroad owner and I think he could do much more. Perhaps he'll take a page from Patagonia's book.
Warren Buffett is a railroad owner and I think he could do much more. Perhaps he'll take a page from Patagonia's book.
I was looking for some good news this morning to start my day and I came across this article. ( https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/innovative-paint-cools-down-the-school-playground-by-12-degrees/)
A paint company has made solar reflective paint that a school near Atlanta used to redo the concrete/asphalt playground area. The result was a decrease in temperature by about 12 degrees.
Could you imagine the benefits of more places used this type of paint on concrete and asphalt? Wow!
I usually try not to vent too much on this forum, in the spirit of keeping things positive.
But I'm so appalled by DeathSantis' latest stunt I want to scream.
He spent 12 million dollars of Florida taxpayers' money to fly ~50 migrants from Texas to Martha's Vineyard.
I mean, WTF???? 😠 😠 👎 👎 😖 😖
This is wrong in so many ways. Obviously there's the human rights issue of misleading the immigrants by telling them they would be given housing and jobs, and using them as political chess pieces.
But one needn't be a "bleeding heart liberal" to be upset.
Even the hard core conservatives should be asking, " Why is the governor using our money to relocate migrants from Texas????!!"
And I have to ask, how the hell does it cost 12 million dollars for a couple of charter flights from TX to MV??? Those are some wicked expensive plane tickets! What happened to the rest of the money? DS probably siphoned off most of it for his campaign fund (which would also be equivalent to his bribes and payoffs fund).
With $12 million, each family could have been *GIVEN* a home and assistance with finding jobs and getting acclimated. What a F-ing waste.
Any R with an eye on their pocketbook (and most are obsessed with it) should be outraged and calling for impeachment. I don't even know how this stunt could be legal. Under what provision in the state constitution is this supposedly allowable??? ARRRGH