As seen here: Amount spent each year in Europe and the United States on pet food: $17 billion Cost per year to achieve basic health and nutrition for the entire world: $13 billion Amount spent on perfumes each year: $12 billion Clean water for all the world: $9 billion Amount spent on cosmetics in the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘life’
Perspective.
Posted in General Reflection, tagged Charities, consumerism, economy, life, politics on April 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
And in case you forgot…
Posted in General Reflection, tagged challenges, humor, life on March 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Posted in current events, General Reflection, tagged life, Travel on February 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Gmail has crashed and the world seems to have ground to a halt. Amazing how reliant we’ve become. I suppose I’ll just have to go to my all time favorite totally useless website and wallow in the unbearable cuteness to remind myself that life still makes sense, even without gmail. Stuff on my cat makes [...]
Posted in General Reflection, tagged challenges, Earthquake, life, Natural Disasters, Peru, Volunteering on February 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In Pisco, where I worked in two post earthquake reconstruction projects. I lived in a tent on the roof of our house. At night, I climbed a latter to get to bed and in the morning I woke up to the screaming roosters the locals kept for cock fighting. I brushed my teeth sitting with [...]
