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אני רוצה להמליץ בחום על כתבה זו.The cost of buying and throwing away good food and drink reached £13.7 billion last year, new analysis by the Local Government Association can reveal.
The analysis, which combined the purchasing price of food which wasn’t eaten with the cost to council tax-payers of sending it to landfill, reveals that households paid an estimated £520 each for uneaten food over the past 12 months.
The LGA is calling on retailers to start making a serious contribution to reducing the amount of food waste discarded from people’s homes, in particular changing the way they promote the sale of perishable goods like fruit, vegetables, dairy and meat. Town hall leaders want to see multi-buy deals, which encourage people to take more food than they need, replaced by discounts on individual products, which offer customers the same value without incentivising over-buying.
Cllr Clyde Loakes, LGA Environment Board Vice Chairman, said:
“The average family in England spent £520 last year on food and drink which wasn’t eaten. That is a heart breaking figure in a world where hundreds of millions of people go hungry every day.
“While campaigns like Love Food, Hate Waste are encouraging people to make better use of the food they buy, the source of the problem is not being adequately addressed. With more than five million tonnes of edible food thrown out each year, way too much food is being brought into homes in the first place. Retailers need to take a large slice of responsibility for that.
“Buy one get one free deals, which give consumers a few days to munch through 16 clementines, are not about providing value for money. They are about transferring waste out of retail operations and into the family home. Retailers should scrap multi-buy deals which encourage people to take more than they need and replace them with discounts on individual products which will help reduce excess consumption and increase customer choice.”
The LGA is calling on retailers to set more ambitious waste reduction goals to bring them into line with the big improvements in waste management being produced by local authorities and residents.
Retailers and manufacturers claim that they have prevented 670,000 tonnes of food waste since they entered the voluntary Courtauld Commitment to tackle waste in 2005. The total amount of packaging waste being produced each year since 2005 has remained the same.
In that same time councils and residents have reduced annual landfill by more than 7 million tonnes and almost doubled the recycling rate from 22 per cent of all household waste to nearly 40 per cent. Despite those achievements local authorities will still pay more than £550 million in landfill tax this financial year as they put more than 10 million tonnes of waste in the ground.
New York University, well on its way to becoming the first truly global university, is starting a new partnership with the University of the People, a unusual nonprofit online school offering free classes to students around the world.
With the collaboration, students who show exceptional promise after at least a year of studies with the University of the People could apply to N.Y.U.’s Abu Dhabi campus and be eligible for financial aid.
The University of the People, created two years ago by Shai Reshef, an Israeli entrepreneur, offers programs in business administration and computer science, using mostly volunteer professors and course materials available free online; it is not yet accredited. The programs have attracted 1,000 English-speaking students from 115 countries, including Haitians who have been living in tent cities since the earthquake in January 2010, Sudanese refugees, and a considerable number of students from China, Indonesia, Nigeria and Vietnam, university officials said.
“When I met Shai last year, I told him that we are so committed to his agenda that we have to be partners,” John Sexton, the president of N.Y.U. said in an interview. “Our mission is spreading our education and knowledge, and if we can find some amazing kids from sub-Saharan Africa or Haiti through this wonderful vehicle of the University of the People and set an example among elite schools with resources, so much the better.”
Mr. Sexton said there were no specific promises of slots for University of the People students, but he expected a few might be admitted to the Abu Dhabi campus in the entering class of 2012.
N.Y.U.’s highly selective campus there, paid for by Abu Dhabi, the richest of the United Arab Emirates, has just finished its first year of operations, with 150 students from 39 countries, including some from wealthy Emirati families and others who were raised in poverty. The university uses outside groups to scout for top students and flies hundreds of likely candidates to Abu Dhabi for weekend visits.
For next year’s entering class, Mr. Sexton said, N.Y.U. Abu Dhabi received 5,854 applications and offered admission to 196 students, or 3.3 percent. (By comparison, Harvard admitted 6 percent of its applicants this year, and 7 percent last year.) Although the cost of attending N.Y.U., whether in Washington Square or Abu Dhabi, is among the highest in the United States, at about $53,000 a year, the Persian Gulf campus offers generous financial aid.
“In Abu Dhabi, we’re able to give financial aid at the same level as places like Harvard and Princeton,” said Mr. Sexton, who announced this year that N.Y.U. planned to open a campus in Shanghai in 2013.
Several N.Y.U. faculty members and administrators have been working with the University of the People on a volunteer basis since it began. Russell Winer, chairman of the marketing department at N.Y.U.’s Stern School of Business, is chairman of the University of the People business administration department; Alexander Tuzhilin, a professor of information systems at the Stern School, serves as chairman of the University of the People computer science department; and Paul Affuso, an associate dean at the Stern School, is the University of the People’s chief financial officer.
Mr. Sexton said he hoped the collaboration would encourage more N.Y.U. faculty and graduate students to work with the online institution.
“It’s almost unbelievable,” Mr. Reshef said. “Most of our students had no alternative for higher education before we opened the gates for them, and now the most successful may be able to further pursue their dreams by attending one of the best universities in the world.”
בשיעור האחרון דיברנו קצת על איך להתכונן לראיון עבודה, כאשר כל אחד נתן קצת טיפים ממה שהוא מכיר...
כפי שהזכרתי כבר בכיתה, הייתי לפני שבועיים בהרצאה של גיל שרמייסטר, שם הוא מציג את הגישה שלו מה חשוב יותר ומה פחות בראיון עבודה, ונותן טיפים טובים מה לעשות ומה לא לעשות...
ההרצאה היתה מאוד מעניינת ומאירה, היו הרבה דברים שלא ידעתי או בכלל לא חשבתי עליהם.
זו לא הפעם הראשונה שהוא מעביר את ההרצאה הזו (אך פעם ראשונה שהייתי בה...), והוא בהחלט טוב במה שהוא עושה. הוא מדבר בצורה מאוד מעניינת, ברורה ומסקרנת... הוא משתמש בהרבה מהעקרונות שהיו במאמר – Teaching that sticks.
במאמר האחרון שקראנו- Teaching that sticks- יש דוגמא על מורה שמנסה להמחיש את נושא האפליה ואת הרצח של מרטין לוטר קינג.
דוגמא זו הזכירה לי מאוד את הספר/סרט- "the wave" ("הנחשול"), שמבוסס על סיפור אמיתי:
מסופר על כיתת היסטוריה בגרמניה שלמדו על השואה. התלמידים שאלו את המורה איך יכול להיות דבר כזה שהמוני יהודים מתו ואף אחד לא עשה דבר...
המורה החליט לערוך ניסוי: הוא מתחיל להחדיר בתלמידים משמעת בצורה קשוחה, מאחד אותם תחת השם "הנחשול" והופך אותם לחיילים צייתנים ומובחרים כביכול של מחתרת קיצונית ומובדלת למען מהפכה עתידית. "הנחשול" מגייסים עוד ועוד אנשים, ויוצרים טרור בבית הספר. לבסוף, המורה מגלה לתלמידיו כי המנהיג הפוליטי שלהם הוא לא אחר מאשר אדלוף היטלר...
באמצעות הניסוי המורה הצליח להמחיש לתלמידים איך דבר כזה יכול לקראות ולהשפיע עליהם.
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