In the fifth of six monthly conversations, three experts ask: can the way nations spend money help bring about the change needed to cool the Earth? The fifth Ecologues discussion featured (right to left) Juan Pablo Arellano, Marlowe Hood and Bianca Getzel with...
We need to mitigate climate change for developing countries who have done comparatively little to harm the planet. Is there cash in the bank for that? This article is the ninth in a series of decoders examining critical aspects of climate change. They are part of a...
The collapse of several big players last year raised questions about the survival of cryptocurrency. But let’s not dig the grave yet on digital currency. A variety of cryptocurrency tokens. Credit: Roger Brown Memo to aspiring journalists: be wary of new year’s...
There’s been some pretty scary drops in the value of some cryptocurrencies – money that only exists as computer code. Last year, for example, crypto token Terra Luna fell from about $120 to two cents in less than 48 hours, wiping out entire fortunes. In this story, correspondent Robert Holloway explains what digital currency is, why it is so volatile and why it might just last.
Exercise: Give every student a stack of “currency” with each stack labeled differently. Then on a big screen have a chart that shows the value of each slip of paper according to the color or letter. Each value will start at $1,000 so if a student has 10 slips they start off with a stack worth $10,000. Present a list of commodities they can buy at different prices. Let them see how much they can buy with their currency stack. Then change the values of the currency on the chart for different students with some going up in value and some going down in value. How does that change how much each student can buy? What does it do to their net worth? Keep changing the values so that students experience wealth and poverty depending on what value is placed on their slips of paper.
Big business is eager to show its environmental and social credentials. But how can you tell if a firm is genuine — or merely greenwashing? British cyclist Neah Evans sports a Shell plc logo on her jersey at a race near Paris, France, 16 October 2022. (AP...
At next month’s climate summit in Egypt, poorer nations coping with disasters will press wealthier states for a fund to help them ride out catastrophes. Women carry belongings from their flooded home in the Qambar Shahdadkot district of Sindh Province of...