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The goal of this mission was to find a news story on the womenwatch web site. While I was on this site I discovered something that I thought was of more importance. The site contains a rather comprehensive sub site on the situation in Haiti. There are various topics on this site that have to do with reproductive health and harm reduction. Finding this site made me wonder if…
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http://www.unifiedfieldbank.com/
As the fundamental recalibration of our global economy continues, there is an urgent need to develop, example and mainstream an utterly new structure for the essential relationship between banks and their communities.
The Unified Field Bank, through an innovative application of financial capabilities developed within the banking industry over the last hundred years, is being created to partner with…
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In my opinion we are just as wasteful with our water as with our food. Therefore, i would begin to save as much water as we can by ourselves. You have to ask yourself if you really doing all you can to conserve water, our most precious resource! Here are some simple ways you may not have thought of.
You can go through these points beyond or watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ21EMkLRFo
Six easy ways to save…
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The company "Renewit" creates many different versions of their solar panel technology to power different object such as cell phones, lights, computers, etc. These technologies are open to everyone, but the company strives to distribute it to places like sub-saharan Africa that don't usually have any power. These are very unique technologies because they are small, therefore very easy to use and convenient to transport. The photo below is one example of the products made by Renewit:…
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In germany we dont have serious problems with food security. Nevertheless there are a few people who cant afford to buy enough food form themselves, altough about 20% of the produced food is thrown away! Thats why I want to introduce a local charity organisation, which cares about these people:
The aid organisation "Braunschweiger Tafel e.V." distributes food to the needy from about 60 donors. It was founded 1996 as a long term project. Currently over 6000 people and lots of social…
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The tips for innovation in Africa from Ethan Zuckerman, Amy Smith and Paul Polak seem to be useful to understand what it means to be a social innovator. Socal innovation describes innovations, which have direct impact on social problems and conflicts. In this context my favorite secret is "Provide skills, not just finished technologies". To improve the economic and social situation in most of the african countries in the long term they need to be able to handle their problems and conflicts…
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