VIRTUOUS NETWORKS Media Mashing CHANNELS

The Virtuous Networks^TM  mission is to enable, facilitate, and accelerate the development of local entrepreneur solutions.  One way to help is to identify big problems that can be solved on a local level.  To do this, we are media mashing about  global problems that would benefit from grass roots business solutions.  

ENVIRONMENT Channel

• Cap and Trade in the US: According to Wikipedia: The United States Carbon Cap and Trade Plan is a policy being proposed by President Barack Obama that would essentially put a price on carbon dioxide emissions by auctioning off permits to emit the gas. The “cap” would work by setting a maximum amount of carbon to be emitted in the United States, and the “trade” would allow the carbon emitters to freely trade carbon permits amongst themselves.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Carbon_Cap_and_Trade_Program

HEALTHCARE Channel

• Healthcare Reform in the US: According to Wikipedia: The debate over health care reform in the United States centers around questions of a right to health care, access, fairness, sustainability, and quality purchased by the high sums spent. The mixed public-private health care system in the United States is the most expensive in the world, with health care costing more per person than in any other nation. A greater portion of gross domestic product (GDP) is spent on health care in the U.S. than in any other United Nations member state except for the Marshall Islands.^[1] A study of international health care spending levels in the year 2000, published in the health policy journal Health Affairs, found that while the U.S. spends more on health care than other countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the use of health care services in the U.S. is below the OECD median by most measures. The authors of the study concluded that the prices paid for health care services are much higher in the U.S.^[2]

  According to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, the United States is the "only wealthy, industrialized nation that does not ensure that all citizens have coverage".^[3] Whether a federal government-mandated system of universal health care should be implemented in the US remains a hotly debated political topic, with Americans divided along party lines in their views of the US health system and what should be done to improve it. Those in favor of government-guaranteed universal health care argue that the large number of uninsured Americans creates direct and hidden costs shared by all, and that extending coverage to all would lower costs and improve quality.^[4] Opponents of government mandates or programs for universal health care argue that people should be free to opt out of health insurance.^[5] Both sides of the political spectrum have also looked to more philosophical arguments, debating whether people have a fundamental right to have health care provided to them by their government.^[6][7]

  In spite of the amount spent on health care in the US, a 2008 report by the Commonwealth Fund ranked the United States last in the quality of health care among the 19 compared countries.^[8] Other comparisons conclude that the US system performs better on some measures, such as responsiveness and higher cure rates for some serious illnesses such as cancer.^{[9][10][11][12]}
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_reform_in_the_United_States

LOCAL FOOD Channel

• Local Food: According to Wikipedia: Local food (also regional food or food patriotism) or the local food movement is a "collaborative effort to build more locally based, self-reliant food economies - one in which sustainable food production, processing, distribution, and consumption is integrated to enhance the economic, environmental and social health of a particular place"^[1] and is considered to be a part of the broader sustainability movement. It is part of the concept of local purchasing and local economies, a preference to buy locally produced goods and services. Those who prefer to eat locally grown/produced food sometimes call themselves "localvores" or locavores.^[2]
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_food

Comments

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[treatment of hemorrhoids]

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[Red Wing Store]

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