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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  
50/50 Make or Break
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 ...
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12,000,000 People
Africa needs you
Celebrity leftovers
Dare bot
Drop by drop
Facebook Famine
Give a gram
Kenyan chickens
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Pound-land for East Africa
Space for change
The Fat Planner
The Pound Store
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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  
When the book saves lives: End Malaria
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o73udN_Y3Z0&feature=player_embedded 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 ...
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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  
Who is ruling our travels?
  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 ...
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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: entrepreneurship and independence
  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 ...
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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%
  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, ...
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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: a must-see film in 2011
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. ...
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