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“Climate”-Friendly Olympics Show Horror of Pritzker-style Policies
Months before the games began, Paris 2024 announced its ambitious plan to “halve the carbon footprint” from the past two Olympics and host the “greenest ever Games,” as if carbon dioxide (the gas of life) were somehow not “green.” Organizers admitted the approach was a “radical departure from that of previous major sports events.”
Posted in Climate Change, Illinois Politics
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Tagged Al Gore, Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Climate and Equitable Jobs Act, climate-conscious menu, CO2, Dr. Roy Spencer, Dr. William Happer, Etienne Thobois, fossil fuels, geothermal cooling, greenhouse gas, J.B. Pritzker, Leonardo di Caprio, Michael Bloomberg, Paris 2024, Princeton University, San Francisco Chronicle, Simone Biles, Summer Olympics, Team USA, Thomas Ceccon
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Silver Lining: COVID Boosted Idea of Educational Freedom
As Mao Zedong took over China with his communist revolutionaries, he sparked one of the largest mass migrations of the 20th century. Between 1948 and 1950, an estimated 2 million Chinese refugees fled Mao’s regime and escaped to Taiwan and other countries around the world. While Mao was razing and restructuring Chinese culture and society, these refugees were able to begin new lives in safer and freer countries.
While the Chinese mass migration makes the history books, a similar 2-million-in-2-years migration is currently happening—across educational borders. An analysis published by Harvard’s Education Next Institute (EN) recently announced that, between the …
Posted in Education
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Tagged charter schools, China, COVID–19, education choice, Education Next Institute, government schools, Homeschool, homeschool co-op, Mao Zedong, Michael Bloomberg, microschools, private schools, public education, public schools, Taiwan, Terry McAuliffe, u.s. department of education
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