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About Me

soft and alive, sorta pinkish :: bow-drill fires :: buckskin moccasins :: millennium development goals (particularly 1,2,4 and 5) ::

My Interests

development economics, microfinance, tracker school, wanting to have a band again

I'd like to meet:

Mohammad Yunus and Jonny Greenwood

Music:

radiohead and damian marley. Otis Redding.

Television:

arrested development, al-jazeera

Books:

Banker to the Poor, Cradle to Cradle, The Quest, Petersons Field Guides, Lovins, Easterly, Stiglitz

Heroes:

every member of Grameen Bank, Stalking Wolf, Jonny Greenwood

My Blog

Another Reason to Hate Global Warming

I think by now, we all have been beaten over the head with all of the reasons that climate change is bad, including, but not limited to: poor snowboarding conditions.But there is another reason that e...
Posted by Mer on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 03:26:00 PST

Microfinance is the new Carbon Offsets

but its still 1999.basically what i mean is that in a decade, eliminating poverty will be the new radiant heating, $200 organic cotton jeans and hybrid cars. Like the "green product" is a tool enablin...
Posted by Mer on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 01:56:00 PST

Environmentalists are AMAZING

From an article inside Environmental News Magazine (paper), that for some mind boggling reason gets delivered (truck) to my office every month (time) "Rough Terrain: When People Flee Civil War and Dro...
Posted by Mer on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:26:00 PST