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Welcome to Planet 100 for August 6, 2010. Here's what we're covering today.
WATCH VIDEO: Superhero Billionaires
If you’ve got it, give it – a philosophy adopted by more than 30 U.S. billionaires have pledged to give away at least 50 percent of their wealth to charity as part of a campaign by investor Warren Buffett and Microsoft founder Bill Gates. Among the billionaires joining the Giving Pledge campaign are New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, energy tycoon T. Boone Pickens, media mogul Ted Turner and David Rockefeller.
Many see the Giving Pledge as the best hope for solving everything from climate change to world hunger, with more than $50 billion expected to go to implementing real solutions for a planet in crisis.
Via: Reuters
Cheap cheep
US school kids are eating the meat of spent hens – meat that’s been rejected by
fast food chains like KFC – and campaigners are asking the First Lady for help.
The New Jersey Public Interest Research Group are calling on Michelle Obama
to speak out about the use of low-grade chicken meat in school lunches -- meat
that would normally be used for pet food, fertilizer of even chicken-fat biodiesel.
The poultry industry has been using their influence to peddle “spent hen” meat to
the national school lunch program since 2007.
Via: TreeHugger
Gisele’s Belief
Supermodel Gisele Bundchen has created a storm in a C cup with her comments about breast feeding. The Brazilian bombshell suggested worldwide law for mothers to breastfeed their babies for six months.
Via: Ecorazzi
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Warren Buffet & Bill Gates together ©Getty Images
Mayor Bloomberg ©AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster
Larry Eliison ©AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File
Ted Turner ©AP Photo/Misha Japaridze
David Rockefeller ©AP Photo/Mark Lennihan
Michelle Obama ©Getty Images
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Giselle with Baby ©Getty Images
