A crash course in changing the world.
Urgent Evoke is a alternate-reality game created by game designer Jane McGonigal that launches March 3. It is a game designed to cause real social action in exchange for in-game benefits, with the top players being granted mentorships, internships, start-up money and scholarships. The game is designed specifically to empower people living in Africa (though anyone is allowed to play), where innovation and…
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Next Urgent Challenge to Tackle for us UrgentEvoke Agents..
Climate change, specifically global warming, has captured the attention of people worldwide and has inspired more debate and action—personal, political and corporate—than perhaps any other environmental issue in history.
THE CHALLENGE OF GLOBAL WARMING
The first step toward learning what can be done to reduce global warming, and how you can help, is to understand the…
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What to Do in an Emergency
Evacuate during fires, gas leaks, or major utility failures | |
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Traditional, low-cost approaches to protecting and sustainably utilizing the following four natural resource management strategies:
maintenance of biological diversity.
biological and crop pest control strategies
recycling and fixation of soil nutrients…
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Senators of the Environment:
An Intergenerational Project on
Education and Environmental Awareness
A viable community development and research project is now being carried out in Cap-Pelé, a coastal village in southeastern New Brunswick, Canada. The…
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Menagerie – Contemporary Indigenous Sculpture
Object Gallery and the Australian Museum will celebrate a unique collaboration when Menagerie: Contemporary Indigenous Sculpture opens across both Sydney venues this September.
The groundbreaking exhibition features 33 established and emerging Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, who have each…
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A Greener Future for Toronto -->
Toronto's Mayor's Tower Renewal Project (http://www.towerrenewal.ca/)…
ContinueHere is a sneak peak into what Toronto is doing to shrink its carbon footprint:
http://www.toronto.ca/environment/initiatives/index.htm
Here is a list of presentations on Toronto's environmental initiatives:…
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The death toll had climbed to 1,144 and another 417 remained missing as of 5 pm…
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Empowered by this project, girls in rural China can have opportunities to start a new life by gaining access to education.…
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We provide school scholarships to 140 girls (and boys) in this destitute rural province of China where girls are often illiterate and married young, dashing all hopes for a brighter future
Girls in rural China face double discrimination: poverty and gender condemns them to ignorance. For many families, the cost of putting a child through school is too heavy to bear. And it doesn't pay to educate a girl; in fact, it pays…
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With the second long-term losing streak of Euro, the widely-predicted collapse of European Union’s common currency now seems more imminent than ever.…
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e-Payment will likely be the solution to a cash-less (and dare I say, "money-less") society in the future.
Innovative and leading players in this area include PARKEON, which has 20 years of proven experience and expertise regarding e-payment.
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Made a micro-loan donation as relief aid for China's Sichuan earthquake in May 2009, also contributed to the long-term efforts towards poverty alleviation and sustainable development in China.
Here is how you can Do Your Part to help, please take a look:
http://www.virtualfoundation.org/proposals/chrkmicro2.cgi
Thank you for considering and helping…
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I plan to organize a large-scale demonstration on the urgency and consequences of this water crisis to evoke awareness and actions! Along with the demonstration, there will be a world-wide campaign led by the Blue Man Group, with the theme being “B.M.W. – Blue Means Water!”
A very interesting and well-made video by our lovely Blue Men:
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Volunteered with, helped promote and donated to A Child’s Right (ACR)’s China project.
ACR - The China Project: Clean Water for Orphans is a five-year project that will target 400 Chinese orphanages and child welfare institutions across the country, bringing clean and safe drinking water to vulnerable and sick orphans. From 2008 to 2013, A Child’s Right (ACR) will undertake this bold and exciting project that will improve…
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During the twin tragedies of the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina, Ipswich water-treatment expert Michael Pritchard winced helplessly at televised coverage of throngs of refugees waiting for days for a simple drink of clean water. Stricken by the chronic failure of aid agencies to surmount this basic challenge, Pritchard decided to do something about it.
Using a non-chemical nano-filtration hollow fiber membrane with 15 nanometer pores (it is designed to block viruses), the…
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