The founder of the clothing company Patagonia, Yvon Chouinard, has converted his company into a foundation committed to climate protection. Annual profits of 100 million dollars are thus available for environmental protection projects. «Earth is now our only shareholder,» the 81-year-old entrepreneur wrote in an open letter. The mountaineer’s and...
«Dos moi pou sto kai kino ten gae» – Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth. In his mathematical treatises, the Greek mathematician Pappus quotes Archimedes here. This is how the latter illustrates the law of the lever. With a fixed point and a long...
What is money? Do we need money? If we fetch water from the spring and go into the forest and gather food, then we don’t need money. When we follow our individual impulses to fashion things in an entrepreneurial, creative way as human beings, then something like money becomes relevant....
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