Cynawynn's Blog (30)

Work hard.

Have fun.

Save the world.

I thought long and hard about this one. I kept coming back to these three points. I'm pretty sure I am paraphrasing someone's company motto, but I cannot remember who. So it was either a very, very long post, or this very short one.

Work hard.

Have fun.

Save the world.

Seems to say…

WHICH great challenges and social problems should the EVOKE Network tackle next?

Education. Education funding is shrinking everywhere, and the educational models are outdated. How do we get the vast amount of information available to the people who need it most, in a way that is simple, sustainable and effective?

WHERE in the world should the network try to build up new EVOKE…

I selected Outrage Management as the one piece of insight I found most surprising and important.

"Outrage management is done largely with the ears; precaution advocacy is done exclusively with the mouth. Outrage management involves a lot of listening, and a very weird thing happens when you listen to people’s concerns—they become calmer. I’m not saying the…

I would recruit teenagers to the rescue.

Yes, those teenagers. The ones that make you crazy because they are always on Facebook or Skype or texting.

That is exactly what we need. To be able to reach out to as many people as possible as quickly as possible. And nothing moves faster than the teenage gossip machine. :-)

I would set up on online and phone location where teenagers can report rumours, problems, shortages or needs and get facts…

100 years old. Hard to fathom. Feels like I'm only 92. Hehe.

You want to know what indigenous knowledge I have to share with you at my advanced age? Sure, sonny, why not?

First, history repeats itself. And the winners write the histories. So if you don't want to repeat history, go to the source, the original doc**ents, journals, and stories. Make up your own mind as to the truth of what happened. Too many official histories leave out the tragic, the embarrasing…

So, I went to the website included in the mission http://www.kivu.com/wbbook/casestudies.html

The most important lesson I found was included in the case study below. It is vital that the next generation learn from the past. In this specific case, it is the history and traditional culture of the First…

In 2020, our community is well on our way to our goal of a neighborhood tornado shelter for any neighborhood without such a shelter already available.

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF&msa=0&msid=
110360258307154461259.00048452312764e18e1a7

You'll have to copy the entire link, I can't get it to link correctly with the long string of numbers at the end.

It took some digging, but I found our city's Multi-Hazard Mitigation Plan from 2002. It is amazingly detailed and many of these ideas and projects have been implemented since that time. It requires an annual review through 2014.

http://www.cityoftulsa.org/COTlegacy/doc**ents/Tulsa2002MultiHazardMitigationPlan.pdf

I also discovered that FEMA had a Project Impact…

Gabriel Martin is working on interviewing some of the top agents in EVOKE to compile data and see what makes them tick. :-) (My words, not his)

His goal is to share as a community and lend a helping hand to any agent who needs it.

Please take the following anonymous survey to let him know what questions you would like answered and what agents you would like to see interviewed.…

Graduation Day 2020

It is a beautiful early summer day. The graduates are nervous and excited. The parents are proud and relieved. Everyone is ready for school to end and the summer to begin.

Watching my daughter and her friend accept doctorates is one of the proudest moments of my life.

I am so glad I convinced them of the need to study hard for that long ago PSAT. They both earned scholarships. They have both made the most of them and are ready…

OK, this is a little off the beaten path of topics for empowering girls. And it isn't for empowerment in far off locales and it isn't trendy or glamorous or someting the celeb of the week will brag about during their chat with the talk show host.

But it is important, and it is relevant in the U.S., and it is too often undervalued by girls.

My daughter is a soph***re in high school. In the fall, she will take the PSAT. PSAT stands for Preliminary Scholastic…

My city has a history of severe ice storms. Thankfully, these do not come often, but when they do come, they can range from serious to devastating.

The most insidious thing about an ice storm is that the damage builds slowly, and over a wide area. It often starts as rain or even mist. As the temperature drops, the rain and mist on the trees, power lines and structures slowly freezes. As more rain falls, it hits the ice buildup and instantly freezes, adding to the amount of…

I'm reporting on location where a newly invented method of currency has taken the city by storm!

What began as a local high school experiment has now been expanded to the entire city. The expansion was unplanned and rapid.

A local high school class project created Smile Bucks. The project team handed 100 Smile Bucks in varying denominations to each high school student. Whenever someone made them smile, for a reason to be determined only by the holder of the…

As I was scanning the WomenWatch newsfeed to decide what would be a good topic for this mission, my attention was arrested by the link titled "In Afghanistan, Mullahs use Islam to help women". I was intrigued. I am aware that the Quran is quoted both to empower and to suppress women, just as the Bible and other religious books and texts are used to support both sides of many an argument.

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is supporting a national program requiring…

Here is my answer to Quest 006: So what kind of world-changing action do YOU want to design? Your quest this week: Create three original calls to action: for an individual, for a crowd, and for a massive community.



If you had the power to convince today one person to do one thing, who would it be, and what would you call on him or her to do?

For an Indiviudal call to action: Pay it Forward

It's…

Many thanks to Riko Kamachi for her post http://www.urgentevoke.com/profiles/blogs/kiva-an-evoke-group.

I've been aware of microloans for some time and always thought they were a fabulous idea. But it was not something I really thought about doing myself. How would I get started? How would I…

As I went on my learning expedition, I came across this German site on Social Banking.

Their mission statement intrigued me, so I took a closer look.

The Institute for Social Banking promotes a concept of finance and banking that specifically orients itself towards a perception of and responsibility for the development of both people and planet.

They have training, seminars, and research papers available online in both German and…

I have signed up on HarvestH2O's website to receive their newsletter and will continue to research for ways to help sustain water security locally.

http://www.harvesth2o.com/index.shtml

For World Water Day 2020, each local community will take the rainwater they have collected and pool it together to use the winner of the local Create the World's Biggest Rainbow contest's creation.

At noon GMT each community will set off their local rainbow creator and we will have millions of rainbows to celebrate water.

Of course, part of the winning invention will be to recyle the water used to create the rainbow. :-)

It makes me smile just to…

I found this site very informative. It has ideas everyone can use personally as well as resources and articles and vendor information.

http://www.harvesth2o.com/index.shtml

The idea of rainwater harvesting is not new; it is in fact very old. But the technology available today gives us a much broader variety of options as to how it can be implemented.