Wednesday-Night

July 27
Thomas Friedman
What would happen if you cross-bred J. R. Ewing of “Dallas” and Carl Pope, the head of the Sierra Club? You’d get T. Boone Pickens. What would happen if you cross-bred Henry Ford and Yitzhak Rabin? You’d get Shai Agassi. And what would happen if you put together T. Boone Pickens, the green […]

Chil Heward is bringing Robin Griffiths as his guest.
Robin joined Phillips & Drew in 1966, having taken a degree in Economics at Nottingham University. He went on to be a partner at WI Carr, the first British stock broker to have offices in Hong Kong and Tokyo. Part of this firm […]

With thanks to Professor Paul Quirk of UBC and Foad Mardukhi who maintains an impressive listserv on many topics of interest.

22 June
Higher Learning Adapts To a Greening Attitude
Students Lead Drive Reshaping Curricula
By Susan Kinzie
Washington Post Staff Writer
The environmental fervor sweeping college campuses has reached beyond the push to recycle plastics and offer organic food and […]

11 June 2008
65,000 computers for Colombian schoolchildren (Full text in Spanish only)
An agreement signed between Colombia and the OLPC Foundation will provide 65,000 schoolchildren with laptops.
4 January 2008
It grieves us to see The Economist’s review of one of our favorite development projects, but we take heart in the conclusion that “Mr. Negroponte’s vision […]

More on Beryl Wajsman and on Wednesday-night.com
The Métropolitain: A Healthy (Bilingual) Corrective to Self-Censoring Quebec Media on Sensitive Issues
(The National Post Full Comment) As we all are being told, newspapers - the kind that leave your fingers a bit inky, that is - are in decline. Readers and advertisers are […]

A lecturer at McGill in International Development, Desirée McGraw frequently advises students to “take something you love and combine it with what you’re good at.”
More on Désirée McGraw
May 15, 2008
Citizen engagement
By Neale McDevitt, McGill Reporter
At 38 years of age, Désirée McGraw has a CV of someone twice her age. As a high school activist, the […]

May 4, 2008
Thomas L. Friedman is one of our heroes and this column is one of the reasons.
Traveling the country these past five months while writing a book, I’ve had my own opportunity to take the pulse, far from the campaign crowds. My own totally unscientific polling has left me feeling that if there is […]

Great debates for 2,500 years in Athens
May 03, 2008
Cleo Paskal Special to the Star
Athens–There are some cities that transcend national boundaries.
New York, London, Shanghai, Cape Town, Mumbai, Istanbul, Tokyo and Mexico City, just to name a few, are culturally and economically so dynamic and powerful that in many ways they are essentially modern city-states.
Usually […]

Dear friends/Chers amis!
You are invited to attend the second ever - Wednesday Night salon - west coast edition on Wednesday night May 7th. You are all fabulous fascinating (and busy!) people who are passionate about the world we live in and the people who surround us. I hope you will be […]

3 April 2008

La ministre Line Beauchamp était de passage à Montréal pour annoncer l’octroi d’un montant de 250 000 $ pour financer des projets étudiants relatifs à l’environnement. © Virginie Roy (Canoë)
Le défi lancé au gouvernement du Québec par les fondateurs du Pacte des générations, un projet de sensibilisation au développement durable, semble avoir […]