February 2008

“My cousin in Tibet is an illiterate subsistence farmer. By accident of birth, I was raised in the West and have a Ph.D. The task of our generation is to cut through the illusion that we inhabit separate worlds. Only then will we find the heart to rise to the daunting but urgent challenges of global disparity.”

– Losang Rabgey, Ph.D.
National Geographic Emerging Explorer and co-founder of Machik, a nonprofit helping communities on the Tibetan plateau.

Today’s order is a grande red eye in a venti cup.

“I have spent a lot of time living where two bioregions intersect. There’s often amazing diversity in these zones, as species native to one region seem to thrive in the presence of those from another. So it is with businesses and the environment. For companies that seek it, there’s a renewable spring of ideas and innocations where the two fields mix.”

– Terry Kellogg
Executive director of 1% for the Planet, a network of companies that donates a portion of sales to environmental causes.

Today’s Order: Grande Red Eye, Venti Cup