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Creating Rather Than Consuming: A Vision for the Young

In his speech on Monday, President Obama said, that our era needed to empower young people “to create, build and invent — to be makers of things, not just consumers of things.” It's an exciting idea. Maybe in the near future we'll have more teen lab rats rather than mall rats. So much money is s...

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Tags: Consumer, Create, Creative, Policy. science, President, Teen, Young, Youth
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Hope for Correcting Our Collective Myopia

The State of the Union was, as expected, heavy on the economic talk. In the NYT's Dot Earth Blog yesterday, Andrew C. Revkin asks the question ‘Macromyopia’ for Finance, Now for the Planet? Macromyopia, in case you haven't heard, is the "short-term gains were prized over long-term prosperity," th...

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Tags: America, Crissi, Economy, Finance, Future, Macromyopia, Money, President
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