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Four days to get ready for the BIG ONE
The recent shaking in California, as always, makes us nervous up here in Portland where we’re waiting for the Big One. In that nervous spirit we’d like to suggest this crash course in preparation. A reporter from KQED spent an hour a day for four days to prep for the next Big One in California. While it may not ready you for the zombie apocalypse, it might help you be much better off than you are right now.
.9% of population own 44% of world’s wealth
The millionaires of the world make up just 0.9 percent of the global population yet they now control 43.9% of the planet’s $361 trillion in total wealth. On the other end of the scale, the bottom 56 percent of the population fight over just 1.8 percent of the pie. This annual Global Wealth Report from Credit-Suisse lays out all the numbers, and you can go back to Wealth Reports from previous years for comparison. Possibly shocking, but this spread of wealth inequality is just a data point. For what it means in the real world, check out The Equality Trust.
New hope after the Columbia River Gorge fire
In 2017, fireworks on the Eagle Creek hiking trail started a fire that eventually burned more than 30,000 acres of the Columbia River Gorge and forced almost 700 people out of their homes. The Gorge is one of Oregon’s treasures, and even in a state used to wildfires this particular blaze hit hard. The Eagle Creek fire felt like an irrecoverable loss, but it wasn’t. Kevin Gorman, director of Friends of the Columbia Gorge had an unexpected comment: “This was a good fire.” Wilammette Week takes you on a tour to see why…
