Social justice

I'm traveling in Brazil this week with friend and co-conspirator Gregor. We'll be visiting Greenpeace projects in the Amazon Rainforest, but we've begun our adventure in Rio de Janeiro, where today we ventured outside the tourist zone to explore the city's infamous "slums." What we found defied our expectations on every level.

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There was no shortage of complaining about the $147 million that Lee R. Raymond, retiring CEO of Exxon Mobil departed the company with. Exxon shareholders didn’t seem to mind. Why would they when large company CEO’s make on average 300 times what the average worker earns. This kind of excessive largesse has become commonplace.

But it pales in comparison to what hedge fund managers made last year. Somehow these amazing facts have remained hidden from view.

BALLE, Business Alliance for Local Living Economies, is having its annual three day conference in Burlington, Vermont - Thursday, Friday and Saturday. We, at Seventh Generation are very supportive all the work BALLE is doing to make the world a better place. And, we encourage all conference participants to use our blog to engage the world in a dialogue about change...

Thanks.

Gregor