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A 375-Year-Old French Bank Forgives Debts of Paris' Poorest - Business - GOOD
Just as France was being chastised for excessive national borrowing with a sovereign debt downgrade , thousands of lucky French people had their financial obligations forgiven after the country's oldest bank decided to simply wipe their slate clean. Granted, it's a small slate. The 3,500 clients who benefitted from the bank’s largesse had debts of 150 euros or less (about $190) with the Crédit Municipal de Paris, also known as the "Mont-de-piété," the bank of the poor, which has for centuries allowed the needy to get loans against their valuables—a kind of ethical pawnshop, or the original microlender. The small kindness was welcome for many.
In the lead-up to Rio+20 , the 2012 World Water Day emphasized the importance of universal access to water to all to end famine, drought and political instability. It also marked the achievement of MDG target 7.c (halving the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water) making it amongst the first MDG targets to be met, well in advance of the 2015 deadline. On the occasion of International Women’s Day UN officials such as UN Secretary-General , or Michelle Bachelet , head of UN Women , stressed that women’s participation in all aspects of society was more important than ever, as witnessed last year in the context of the global economic crisis, political transitions in the Arab world and elsewhere, and environmental disasters.
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A few months ago I attended Camp Mighty in Palm Springs, CA. One of the requirements, prior to arriving, was to complete my life list. I filled mine with over seventy items, and a few stood out: In December, 2011, something clicked. I realized that going even three months without buying anything would just defer purchases. Going a year would require some real change in how I operated.
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Thesen gegen die Ausplünderung der Gesellschaft - "Kapitalismus braucht keine Demokratie" - Kultur - sueddeutsche.de
Bild vergrößern Sind das nicht jene, die das Gemeinwesen um unvorstellbare Milliarden erleichtert haben? Um deren Vertrauen sollen unsere obersten Volksvertreter ringen? (© dpa) Anzeige Die Intellektuellen schweigen.Konkurrenz für Oxford und Cambridge? Ein berühmter Philosoph gründet eine neue Uni für Geisteswissenschaften in London. Mit erstklassigen Professoren soll das New College of the Humanities akademische Brillanz versprühen.
Neue Uni in London: Spitzen-Professoren locken helle Köpfe - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Nachrichten - UniSPIEGEL
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Bauten und Objekte ohne gerade Linien: Der amerikanische Architekt und Denker Buckminster Fuller, dem in Herford eine grandiose Doppelschau gewidmet ist, setzte ganz auf geschwungene Formen. Rechte Winkel waren ihm immer suspekt - auch weil er selbst schielte. Als der kleine Bucky mal aus Erbsen und Zahnstochern ein Haus basteln sollte, steckte er nicht wie die anderen Kinder ein rechtwinkliges Gebilde zusammen. Weil er stark schielte und Formen nur undeutlich sah, folgte er weniger seinen Augen als seinem Gespür: Er fabrizierte spitzwinklige Gebilde, die sich in seinen Händen wesentlich stabiler anfühlten. In dieser Kindergartenepisode deutete sich schon etliches an, was den späteren Erfinder, Architekten, Theoretiker, wissenschaftlichen Denker und Poeten Richard Buckminster Fuller auszeichnen sollte: Er hatte eine besondere Intuition für physikalische Kräfte, und der rechte Winkel war ihm suspekt.
Architektur-Visionär Bucky Fuller: Rund ist gesund - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Nachrichten - Kultur
Note of the author: What follows are weighted sample percentages, when the weight was provided. Data must be treated with care, since the sample distributions by education and other socio-demographic variables in some countries, may diverge substantially from their respective population distributions. The world population is quite happy in general, despite the crisis, the environmental problems or the illness. This is what can be derived from the great majority of studies carried in many regions for the last ten years. Only some very specific regions can be considered 'unhappy', such as the axis formed in Latin-America by Ecuador-Peru-Bolivia, or the Caucassian-Balkans region of Eastern Europe, the Iraq region in Asia, or the Great Lakes region of Africa (Zambia, Zimbabwe).
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The following graphs show the trends in happiness levels found in 24 countries, using comparable data from all available surveys for countries having at least xx datapoints from 1946 to 2007. These data are from Ruut Veenhoven’s World Database of Happiness, which include the data from the first four waves of the Values Surveys. These data were downloaded from HYPERLINK "http://worlddatabaseofhappiness.eur.nl/" http://worlddatabaseofhappiness.eur.nl/ and updated to include the results from the 2005-2007 World Values Survey.
www.worldvaluessurvey.org/wvs/articles/folder_published/article_base_106
I’m delighted to say that this month, Capstone/Wiley has published an all-new edition of my book, Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative. I wrote the original edition of Out of Our Minds during 2000. I have to admit that when Capstone suggested last year that we produce a new edition of the book to mark its tenth anniversary, I had in mind a less sweeping revision. I pictured spending a long weekend with a casual bottle of claret and a spell check program, sprucing up the original text. In the event, I was plunged into six months of sweated labor as I virtually rewrote the entire book. The first reason for a completely new edition is that so much has happened in the last ten years, both in the world and in my world.
All new edition of Out of Our Minds « Sir Ken Robinson
The Foundation FORUM FÜR VERANTWORTUNG promotes science and education in order to enable mankind to act in an insightful and responsible way. It focuses on the one hand on the fundamental questions of life that arise while thinking about evolution, cosmos, cultural values, religion, and comparable topics. And it focuses on the other hand on the great challenges mankind is facing both in the present and in the future and moving towards sustainable development is one of them.
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Danke, Ira Mollay, für deine wunderbare Mutmacherei , danke, Christoph Quarch, für dein seelenverwandtes Magazin „ Wir Menschen im Wandel “. Im Magazin „die Wirtschaft“ erscheint regelmäßig eine Mutmacher-Seite von Harald KoisserZamzee went back to school in September, unrolling their first school pilot program to over 600 students at Cupertino’s Kennedy Middle School (above). We left our lunchboxes and pencils, but we brought something better: the opportunity for 200 6th, 7th and 8th graders to get a Zamzee for themselves, plus the element of free invites for friends that we hoped would help Zamzee “go viral”. Zamzee is a platform for fun that’s powered by young people’s movement.
Sticky Notes: HopeLab's Blog
Das Programm des VISION SUMMIT 2012 steht. Das 24-seitige Programmheft steht ab sofort hier zum Download bereit. Mehr als 150 Top-Referenten und Workshopleiter präsentieren ein Feuerwerk an Impulsen in über 20 Keynotes und diskutieren in mehr als 75 Workshops mit den Teilnehmern die Perspektiven für einen großen Durchbruch sozialer Innovationen in allen Bereichen unserer Gesellschaft einschließlich Wirtschaft.
Vision Summit: Startseite
The Story of Stuff
When Annie created and launched The Story of Stuff in December of 2007, that was supposed to be it. One movie, one web page. But when that movie went viral, the response was undeniable. A chord was struck, a community was galvanized and The Story of Stuff Project was born! Now, four years, five staff, and seven movies later, we’re still going. But unlike the Energizer Bunny, we’re powered by you, not alkaline and mercury!Digitalization
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