50/50 Make or Break
Published By Isabella Mara On Monday, October 31st 2011. Under Interactions, Services Tags: Activism, Aid, Grassroots, Social innovation, Well-being
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 ...
When the book saves lives: End Malaria
Published By Isabella Mara On Saturday, September 10th 2011. Under Interactions Tags: Aid, Books, Community development, Well-being
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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 ...
Who is ruling our travels?
Published By Vanessa Uvoni On Tuesday, August 9th 2011. Under Services Tags: Community development, Environment, Lifestyle, Slow, Sustainable behaviour, Sustainable consumption, Well-being
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 ...
Indego Africa: entrepreneurship and independence
Published By Isabella Mara On Friday, July 29th 2011. Under Interactions, Products Tags: Community development, Empowerment, Handmade, Local, Sustainable production, Well-being
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 ...
Design for the other 90%
Published By Isabella Mara On Wednesday, July 20th 2011. Under Products, Services, Urban Tags: Community development, Design for all, Events, Human rights, Sustainable production, Well-being
Design for the other 90%, the name is useful to explain the global situation: while the richest 10 percent of the world’s population enjoys the vast majority of consumer goods and services, 5.8 billion people (or 90%) struggle to gain access to the basic things they need: clean water, food, ...
The ECONOMICS of HAPPINESS: a must-see film in 2011
Published By Fatina Saikaly On Saturday, February 5th 2011. Under Art Tags: Community development, Grassroots, Handmade, Identity, Lifestyle, Local, Slow, Sustainable behaviour, Sustainable consumption, Sustainable production, Well-being
The Economics of Happiness is a film I’m looking forward to in 2011. Helena Norberg-Hodge, Steven Gorelick and John Page are the filmmakers. The film synopsis and trailer present a clear idea about the sense of well-being: life is becoming increasingly stressful for the majority of people on the planet. ...



















