World Earth Day is celebrated yearly on the 22nd of April, but actually started on the same date in 1970. Since then, it has become a tradition celebrated all over the world. Various activities are held to commemorate love for the environment and preservation of mother nature. Usually, it’s a clean up drive within the [...]

Did you know that cash contributions to charitable institutions can be deducted from our taxes? Most people who give to charity just answer the call of goodness and get on with the nitty-gritty of daily life. The good news is, many offerings to charitable institutions, Mustard Seed Canada among them, are tax deductible. For U.S. [...]

On April 22, 1970, the first Earth Day kicked off our modern environmental movement. Founded by Senator Gaylord Nelson (D-Wisconsin), the event was a response to political inertia around environmental issues. Twenty million people from 141 countries participated. Earth Day was organized as a teach-in. Teach-ins were grassroots educational efforts of the day that had [...]

There is a stark difference between the Gross National Income (GNI) per capita of residents in Luxembourg, compared to that to the wage earners from Haiti, Indonesia or the Philippines.  According to NationMaster.com, an online statistics website, the average annual salary of an income earner from Luxembourg is $37,499.20, while the average annual wages of [...]