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Yep. National parks and reserves are also a great way to do it (providing you don't get some f-wit administration changing their status).
My wife does nature conservation work under the German nature conservation credits scheme ("Ãkokonto").
Basically this encourages land owners to carry out conservation projects under professional guidance. The equivalent of the EPA then comes in, values the scheme and the landowner gets credits that they can then trade to developers who want to build on green fields and are required by law to offset the damage they do.
It's also a bit of a two-edged sword as the developers get to do what they want (at a price) and the landowners get to earn extra revenue on land that would otherwise not really use.
However, as a conservationist you get to do some really cool stuff like networking habitats for endangered species etc.
Too bad tho, that this is how forest gets preserved.
Yep. National parks and reserves are also a great way to do it (providing you don't get some f-wit administration changing their status).
My wife does nature conservation work under the German nature conservation credits scheme ("Ãkokonto").
Basically this encourages land owners to carry out conservation projects under professional guidance. The equivalent of the EPA then comes in, values the scheme and the landowner gets credits that they can then trade to developers who want to build on green fields and are required by law to offset the damage they do.
It's also a bit of a two-edged sword as the developers get to do what they want (at a price) and the landowners get to earn extra revenue on land that would otherwise not really use.
However, as a conservationist you get to do some really cool stuff like networking habitats for endangered species etc.
Reed Hastings exiting Netflix (after being an absentee co-CEO for many years). Next day Netflix announces price increases on their services (probably to fund a bonus for his replacement).
If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.
Democracy dies in oligarchy.
If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.
Democracy dies in oligarchy.
chan-zuckerberg-foundation 2020: 226M$ revenue, 188M$ functional expenses, 103M$ in liabilities. This looks a lot like a tax dodge. Compare to Hanauer's foundation that is 0$ in functional expenses and $1 (yes, one dollar) in liabilities. These are all 2020 numbers. I didn't dig too deep, but I think Zuck is not likely to make a convincing argument for himself.
Just because... I took a quick run through the 2023 Form 990 I found on Guidestar... and I think some skepticism is warrented, but any conversation around actual giving right now is premature.
They have $5B in the foundation, and spent $60M on gifts. $21M of that went to a Chan-Zuck research lab. For now, I guess it's wait and see. It's better than not committing anything to a foundation.
Sidenote: The 5 listed employees for the foundation are all making $600k+. Good place to work. They're engineers and technical folks, I'm sure with big degrees and former titles...but still.
