“In the next decade we plan to create the first gender balance engineering school in Africa. We believe women should be part of the solution.” ShouldFirstsBelieveSchoolNextPlansBalanceSolutionsGenderDecadesEngineering Author:Patrick Awuah, Jr.
“Too often, the pastoralist blames the weeds and seeks a chemical rather than a management solution; too seldom do we find an approach combining the sensible utilisation of grasshoppers and grubs as a valuable dried-protein supplement for fish or food pellets, and a combination of soil conditioning, slashing, and de-stocking or re-seeding to restore species balance.” PastBalanceApproachSolutionsManagementBlameSpeciesFishesValuableCombinationSoilWeedChemicalsSensibleConditioningProteinSupplementsCombiningPermacultureStockingsGrasshoppers Author:Bill Mollison
“History will help to remedy intellectual faults such as excessive concentration on one line of thought, absence of understanding for other points of view, belief in simple solutions, lack of balance of mind, absence of an imaginative understanding.” MindHelpingBeliefUnderstandingLinesSimpleViewsBalanceIntellectualSolutionsFaultsPoint Of ViewAbsenceConcentrationRemedyImaginativeOne LineSimple Solutions Author:Geoffrey Elton
“The new buzz word in Silicon Valley is "integration". Work-life "balance" is very 2.0. All these women share ways in which they integrate their family life and work. Facebook's head of Global Solutions, Carolyn Everson, for example, takes her children along on her business trips once a quarter. They meet her clients, visit new places and get a better understanding of what mom does when she isn't at home with them.” WayChildrenDoeHomeUnderstandingShareExampleMomBalanceSolutionsValleysQuartersClientsIntegrationFamily LifeIntegratingBuzzWork Life BalanceSiliconLife BalanceSilicon ValleyNew PlacesWork And Life BalanceBusiness Trips Author:Willow Bay
“The problems of 2008 were never cured. The Federal Reserve's solution to the crisis was to lend the economy enough money to borrow its way out of debt. It thought that if it could subsidize banks lending homeowners enough money to buy houses from people who are defaulting, then the bank balance sheets would end up okay.” PeopleIfsWayEndsEnoughProblemHouseEconomyBalanceSolutionsOkayCrisisDebtReservesSheetsLendingFederal ReserveBalance SheetsHomeowners Author:Michael Hudson
“While President Obama shirks his responsibility to advance solutions to our fiscal challenges, he can no longer hide from the merciless math of the balance sheet. Conservatives have made certain of that.” MadeCertainPresidentChallengesResponsibilityBalanceSolutionsMathPresident ObamaSheetsBalance SheetsShirk Author:Paul Ryan