Microfinancing changes lives. For the women involved, their parents, their daughters, sons, their towns. They create governments, strive for freedom, build houses, battle healthcare, encourage education, and instill hope. It happens for so little.
Join Kiva (it’s just a loan). Read Banker to the Poor, Three Cups of Tea, Infidel. It’s so easy. Join the [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Awareness’
August 23, 2009
The Girl Effect
June 28, 2009
Saving a Kashmiri Village After Remaking His Life
by Adam B. Ellick
CHIKAR, Pakistan — The lone hospital in this Kashmiri mountain town was on the eve of hosting one of the year’s biggest social gatherings, a health fair for several hundred villagers, and Todd Shea was not happy.
The hospital’s founder, Mr. Shea, an American who resembles a football coach more than a health [...]
April 22, 2009
In The Air
The first celebration of Earth Day, on April 22, 1970, was a raucously exuberant affair. In New York, Fifth Avenue was closed to traffic. People picnicked on the sidewalk; dead fish were dragged through midtown; and Governor Nelson Rockefeller rode a bicycle across Prospect Park. Students in Richmond, Virginia, handed out bags of dirt (to [...]
March 25, 2009
Earth Hour
It’s as simple as a flick of the switch.
What began as a campaign to get Sydneysiders to turn their lights off, has grown to become one of the world’s biggest climate change initiatives. In 2009, at 8.30pm on March 28, people around the world will turn their lights off for one hour – Earth Hour. [...]
March 21, 2009
World Water Day
The world water crisis is one of the largest public health issues of our time. Nearly 1.1 billion people (roughly 20% of the world’s population) lack access to safe drinking water. The lack of clean, safe drinking water is estimated to kill almost 4,500 children per day. In fact, out of the 2.2 million unsafe [...]
March 6, 2009
Icelanders Knit Crafty Response to Global Crisis
By Rabeika Messina
REYKJAVIK, Iceland – Along Laugavegur, Reykjavik’s main shopping lane, one crafts store is thriving in spite of the economic crisis. Well, not in spite of it – because of it.
Yarns, threads, needles, and fabric scraps are flying off the shelves at Nalin. The shop already ran out of the Danish materials [...]
February 24, 2009
Case Against Cruelty
Animal victims of abuse cannot speak for themselves—so concerned citizens and our legal system must speak up for them. That’s why the Animal Legal Defense Fund has created National Justice for Animals Week—an annual event that will be dedicated to raising public awareness nationwide about how to report animal abuse—and how to work within your [...]
January 26, 2009
New Moon
Happy Lunar New Year! Find your local Chinatown, join in on the festivities and food, and watch the lion dance. You might get a lucky red envelope out of it and add to your luck for the year.
January 19, 2009
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. has now been dead longer than he lived. But what an extraordinary life it was.
At 33, he was pressing the case of civil rights with President John Kennedy. At 34, he galvanized the nation with his “I Have a Dream” speech. At 35, he won the Nobel Peace Prize. At 39, [...]
January 14, 2009
The Omnivore’s Dilemma
As the world’s population and consumer demand continue to grow, there is urgent need to improve human health, prevent disease, and meet basic needs for food, water, and shelter equitably for all people. The challenge of our time is to meet these goals as population increases while protecting the environment, preserving [...]
December 4, 2008
Do the Green Thing
You get from A to B without any C when you Walk The Walk
It’s delicious but it causes more CO2 than cars so go Easy On The Meat
Resist the urge to buy the latest and Stick With What You Got
Turn down the central heating and turn up the Human Heat
The art [...]
December 1, 2008
World AIDS Day
On December 1, 2008, World AIDS Day is celebrated around the world. The theme of leadership continues this year on the twentieth anniversary, with emphasis on governments to deliver on the promises they have made, and on communities to encourage leadership of their members, empowering individuals to access treatment, to know [...]
November 28, 2008
Shhhhh
StoryCorps’ National Day of Listening. This holiday season, ask the people around you about their lives — it could be your grandmother, a teacher, or someone from the neighborhood. By listening to their stories, you will be telling them that they matter and they won’t ever be forgotten. It may be the most meaningful time [...]
