When was the last time you wrote a check? Can you even remember?
I used to buy boxes of 250 checks at a time several times a year for my personal account. Now I use one packet of 25 checks in a year.
Check usage has fallen in the UK by almost two-thirds in the last 20 years. (Read the article)
At this week’s Action for a Sustainable America, held in Seattle, I had the opportunity to meet some great folks. The event was one of a series of three where corporate leaders and green innovators examined sustainability as a corporate strategy.
David Quigg, Grays Harbor Paper, introduced the company his father helped rescue with a team of local investors when the Grays Harbor paper mill closed 15 years ago putting hundreds of people out of work in rural Washington.
I’m hopeful when I read:
Most economists agree that the worst of this financial meltdown is now behind us. Unemployment is at a 25-year high, it’s true, but at least the pace of lay-offs has slowed. If there was a doubt before, it seems safe to conclude that we’re going to make it through this mess. There will be enormous social costs. People have lost their livelihoods and their life savings. Seniors have seen their retirement nest eggs disappear; young people have seen their employment hopes vanish. But we’re going to make it. (Read the article)
