Grand Rapids Business Journal
Alexandra Crow works with Junior Achievement in the classroom to enhance financial literacy.
Courtesy Audrey Hutchinson
One United Bank of Michigan employee is on a mission to ensure children understand the value of money before they grow older.
Alexandra Crow, relationship manager for United Bank of Michigan, is volunteering with Junior Achievement of the Michigan Great Lakes (JAMGL). JA is an organization that uses volunteers to teach children in grades K-12 about jobs, entrepreneurship and financial literacy.
Laura Lutterbeck, district director and chief marketing officer for Junior Achievement of Southwest Michigan and Junior Achievement of the Michigan Great Lakes, said JAMGL was started in 1955 and now covers 50 counties in West Michigan and the Upper Peninsula. JA has been around for more than 100 years.
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I hope you like Mexican food, because today s news is spicy. On the menu, a bit of crypto-pollution and a nice deep pass for Elon on Bitcoin. Then, let s take a closer look at Western countries dependence on China for rare metal supplies, which could hamper electric vehicle manufacturers.
Crypto-sourcing
Bitcoin consumes more electricity than many countries on the planet. According to the Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index, the mining of the leading cryptocurrency would consume 143 terawatt hours. That s more than Norway (124Twh), Belgium (82 Twh) or Switzerland (56 Twh). Another comparison by Visual Capitalist shows that the Bitcoin network is also much more energy intensive than the world s largest tech companies: twelve times more than Google and twenty-eight times more than Facebook for example.
The median sales price for single family homes in the Sedona area for the first quarter of 2021 came in at $827,550, up 44% from the first quarter of 2020. According to real estate agents, the incline in prices stems from exodus of residents from California, use of 1031 exchanges to avoid tax penalties, a spike in short-term rental housing investments, more work-from-options due to the COVID-19 pandemic and a decrease in new home building with lumber costs up 377% over 2020. Graph courtesy of Randy Crewse
Four times a year, Randy Crewse, of Arizona Prime Real Estate, puts together an analysis of the state of the real estate market in Sedona and the surrounding areas, taking into account home prices, the number of homes on the market, and how quickly homes are bought once they are on the market.
May 12, 2021
HONG KONG – Last month, the world marked the 51st Earth Day. This year’s theme “Restore Our Earth” was apt. As the COVID-19 pandemic has reminded us, the effects of human activity on the planet do not respect borders. The Earth is a single living, self-regulating system, and it demands a single, shared system of accounting that balances at the global level. We need a one-Earth balance sheet.
In a 1946 telegram, Albert Einstein pleaded for funding to finance the “life-and-death struggle to harness the atom for the benefit of mankind and not for humanity’s destruction,” arguing that a “a new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move toward higher levels.” The same can be said about the environmental crisis humanity has created. Surviving it, and achieving a better, more sustainable future, requires “a new type of thinking.”