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A crash course in changing the world.
If given a chance, which is the first thing you like to change in your country?
i am from india.
i would like to totally abolish the caste/sex/creed/religion based reservation that we have in India.
what change you want to make?
i would like to totally abolish the caste/sex/creed/religion based reservation that we have in India.
what change you want to make?
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Comment by Aleksandar Gavrilovich on April 5, 2010 at 8:49pm
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I'm from Croatia. The first thing I would change is the mafia bosses who made large money after the iron curtain fell through a process of privatization of public firms into private firms, and they now hold monopolies and business empires without doing anything but having good political connections. That's not fair.
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Comment by Michele Baron on April 5, 2010 at 11:54pm
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I live near Washington DC, where there are many wonderful things, and also many problems--poverty, hunger, homelessness, and excesses of unsustainability.
Right now in the DC metro area there are more than 175 embassies, chanceries, diplomatic missions, and official residences. More than 175 chances to spread the word of sustainability, the work of EVOKE, here and worldwide.
I think that the first thing I would like to change, where there is no pre-existing, directed effort underway (homeless shelters, food banks, etc) to institute change, is to urge the US to partner with all the embassies, chanceries, missions, diplomatic residences (and all the sites of governance, culture/museums, etc--here in DC and throughout the US) to implement green-sustainability features and practices in all building operations and grounds.
From there, perhaps the US could partner with each country hosting US installations, hosts could partner with other nations on their soil, and so forth...
Making all installations and sites of governance, culture, etc., sustainable would provide an opportunity to showcase all the best green and sustainability technologies and initiatives the world has to offer.
The short term costs could be economically challenging, but, on the other hand, economies are in trouble right now, and a cooperative sustainability effort might assist a recovery (tech development, construction, investment, etc).
And the long term impacts--social, environmental, etc., could be priceless.
(longer explanation here: http://www.urgentevoke.com/profiles/blogs/quest3-environment-what-w...
@Paras, great post. Thank you.
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Comment by Mark Mulkerin on April 6, 2010 at 12:34am
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In the US, I'd teach everyone statistics and the scientific method (okay, I wouldn't teach them, but I'd make everybody learn it). Without a shared means to evaluate what works and what doesn't, discussions of principals are for naught. We are shuffling in the dark otherwise.
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Comment by Ternura Rojas on April 6, 2010 at 9:18am
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I am from Bolivia, first thing I would do is help people to re-gain self respect. The self-esteem is very low since colony times (been like this for 500 years!). This is only possible through EDUCATION and would take a series of generations to become a success.
I live in Spain, here I would like to change their tendency to reject the different, specially different people (not exactly racism, its more xenophobia). People in Spain often reject innovation at every level, even if the changes are for their best interest, they would not easily accept them. This was originated by dictatorship, 40 years ago, in Spain everybody had to behave the same (or at least pretend to) as “difference” implied a threat to the system. The change that I would like to see in Spain is also a matter of EDUCATION and would take a series of generations to become a success.
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Comment by paras on April 6, 2010 at 11:38am
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@ samiran , seriously man we are light years away from achieving ~100% literacy rate..
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@ ALL AGENTS: thank you all of you for contributing..
i am really happy to see agents from india, us , uk , bolivia , crotia , spain , france ( and even cosmopolitans from universe!! ) has shared their ideas..
this is possible only on evoke network..
appreciate your pro-active participation..
pass this to all your friends..let's get more ideas..
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Comment by Sarah Hickox on April 6, 2010 at 6:55pm
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I would completely restructure the educational system in America. I'd do away with standardized testing, give teachers a raise, reintegrate the arts and creativity and encourage more independent learning projects. Just for starters.
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@ sarah : superb thoughts!!
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Comment by ben on April 7, 2010 at 5:10pm
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My Country
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Comment by Kevin DiVico on April 17, 2010 at 7:54am
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I would like to teach children the world over critical thinking, adaptation, self esteem and confidence for through them we shall remake and possibly save the world...
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