7th Gen Blog

There's a saying you've probably heard before, it goes something like, "Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he'll eat for a lifetime." Well, there's a group called Generation Enterprise and they're teaching the world's urban youth how to fish.

Generation Enterprise is a network of small business incubators that empower homeless and unemployed youths to create socially-responsible businesses and jobs in slums across the urban developing world.

Sports metaphors are hard to avoid. We're forever racing to the finish or otherwise racing against the clock to some goal.
 

What's with all the hate for the Chevy Volt, the country's first mainstream plug-in passenger car? It cleans the air, prevents climate meltdowns, creates American jobs, reduces oil dependency, and maybe even does the dishes while it brings you a nice hot toddy. But listen to the public chatter, and you'd think it was hell itself on wheels.

Our climate isn't the only thing that's changing. A new survey from Yale and George Mason Universities says Americans' belief in global warming is heating up, too. Better yet, we're increasingly willing to go where no scientist has gone before and draw a link between climate change and all the weird weather we're having.