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		<title>Color is a key to transforming a city</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When a blighted city needs transformation, it’s usually a bulldozer rather than a brush that does the work. Few years ago, Edi Rama, Tirana&#8217;s mayor at the time, started in a creative way to paint the sad facades of the buildings built during communism.  But what did the two Dutch artists, Jeroen Koolhaas and Dre [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sustainableideas.it/2011/11/28/color-is-a-key-to-transforming-a-city/</link>
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		<title>Solar Bottle Bulb</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the energy bills continue to soar a clever solar lighting idea is diffusing across the slums of the Philippines. A 1.5 litre plastic bottle filled with purified water and three spoons of bleach and then fitted to a hole in the roof. The sun rays are curbed by the bottle. “Designed and developed by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sustainableideas.it/2011/11/20/solar-bottle-bulb/</link>
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		<title>50/50 Make or Break</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today it is not so easy to find an innovative good way to organize a fundraising campaign,  50/50 Make or Break project has done it. The starting point is a question about how to support more than one idea, and the answer is a collaborative fundraising experiment, a collection of extraordinary digital projects from all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sustainableideas.it/2011/10/31/5050-make-or-break/</link>
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		<title>The social design is a winning weapon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We are what we do&#8221; is the slogan of Utilità Manifesta, an association of social promotion based in Terni &#8211; Umbria, composed of a group of graphic designers who are actively engaged since 2004 in raising awareness on social issues, and in promoting human rights through graphic and design projects. Their modus operandi is to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sustainableideas.it/2011/10/23/yes-we-are-what-we-do/</link>
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		<title>Thoughtful product</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; I think it is never enough when we speak about behaviour change in manufacturing products. Resuming from my last post about Steelcase I would like to introduce one of their most interesting projects: The Think chair. In 2000 Steelcase was the first office furniture company to apply the Life Cycle thinking in the design of new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sustainableideas.it/2011/09/30/thoughtful-product/</link>
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		<title>99 years of sustainable hazards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Steelcase Inc. is a nearly 100 years old  brand that offers a comprehensive portfolio of workplace furnishings, products and services. Designing to achieve social, economic, and environmental sustainability. Steelcase was created by a few people with a strong commitment to integrity and doing the right thing for their customers, employees, business partners, associates and neighbours. And [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sustainableideas.it/2011/09/16/99-years-of-sustainable-hazards/</link>
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		<title>When the book saves lives: End Malaria</title>
		<description><![CDATA[www.youtube.com/watch?v=o73udN_Y3Z0 What if a book didn’t just talk about saving the world – but actually did it? End Malaria: purchasing this benevolent tome literally enables you to rescue people from a tragic fate. The book features essays, tips and insights on great work by 62 writers, visionaries and thinkers including Michael Bungay Stanier, Sir Ken Robinson, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sustainableideas.it/2011/09/10/when-the-book-saves-lives-end-malaria/</link>
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		<title>Voluntourism-Pepy&#8217;s way</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Voluntourism (Volunteering + Tourism) is one of the sustainable ways to approach tourism, and PEPY Tours is a model for responsible voluntourism. Pepy is both an international non-governmental organization registered in the USA and Cambodia, PEPY, and an educational adventure and service-learning tour operator, PEPY Tours that helps to fund education programs while inspiring change in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sustainableideas.it/2011/08/31/voluntourism-pepys-way/</link>
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		<title>Who is ruling our travels?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; August, vacation time for antonomasia, inspired me for a series of considerations about Travel and Tourism. I love to travel, most of the people do! This makes us consumers of one of the world’s biggest industries: Tourism. For many countries, tourism is in the top three sources of foreign exchange. Italy is the fifth [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sustainableideas.it/2011/08/09/who-is-ruling-our-travels/</link>
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		<title>Indego Africa: entrepreneurship and independence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; INDEGO AFRICA is an innovative non-profit social enterprise, the name stands for “independence, development, and governance”—three life-changing attributes that Indego Africa is helping instill in 250 Rwandan women in order to lift them and their families out of poverty. The business model is simple yet ground-breaking: partnership with cooperatives of women artisans in Rwanda, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sustainableideas.it/2011/07/29/indego-africa-entrepreneurship-and-independence/</link>
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