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A 2009 article on The Guardian presents arguments against saving the panda as well as arguments in favour: TV naturalist Chris Packham said pandas might not be worth saving. Mark Wright from the World Wide Fund for Nature is one of the many who disagree. What do you think? Read the whole article: Should pandas [...]

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Nick Kristof’s Sunday column, When Donations Go Astray, is entirely on the topic I started with my previous post. He warns about inefficient charities, for some only 21% of your donation actually reaches the needy. (For convenience, click through to it via a Google search. Go read the column.) In particular Nick warns religious givers, [...]

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2010. I’ve decided this is the year I start giving — my charitable contributions until now have not been significant. There were a couple of things encouraging me lately, I must confess the thing that finally pushed me over the threshold was a silly little tax thing, i.e. selfishly motivated. The tax form I had [...]

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The last weekend of August saw me on a mountain bike trip to Flumserberg. Riding the train on my own, I had the opportunity to try out podcasts again. It so turned out that the first podcast I could think of and easily access was Point of Inquiry. I ended up listening to two and [...]

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Ruth sent me the following email about a project to build a BMX track for the children of Kayamandi: Through Elana Meyers foundation, JAG, www.songo.info is raising funds for the construction of a BMX track in the Stellenbosch Township through donors buying virtual kilometers of the 950 kilometers. These are to be ridden by current [...]

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