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One Bike per Person (1BpP) #4

March 14, 2010, Blog #4: Entering India

Riding by the wretched waste along th

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Added by Kevin Parcell on March 14, 2010 at 9:30am — No Comments

It is really the time everyone in our country needs to be refreshed. We need to change our mindset toward everything. I would love to get some comments from everyone who can join hands with me to bring a change in our country.

All types of suggestions regarding events, strategies to bring a positive change in our country and something with regards to poverty alleviation are welcome.

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Added by irfan ullah on March 4, 2010 at 10:30am — No Comments

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The economic situation of this worlds of interdepending economies is like a quiet pond in which shall fall down a stone of credits. It is no way to preserve finances to the most opportune aims, but it has more sense to invest in what is the hope for the future: the growing economies of mostly seen as underdeveloped states. And that there are somehow allways people which become better of that, they will be just lucky and what is the point to grieve about that? Capital has the property to coll… Continue

Added by Clemens Buur on February 26, 2010 at 8:30pm — No Comments

One Bike per Person (1BpP) #3

February 23, 2010, Blog #3: Packing Light

I have been homeless and hungry and free, and I have surviv

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Added by Kevin Parcell on February 23, 2010 at 10:30am — No Comments

Sustainable Agriculture begins with certified seeds

Lack of farmer awareness of the importance of the use of improved (high yielding, disease/pests/drought tolerant) seed is identified as one of the key factors affecting farmer integration into commodity market networks that will provide them sustainable income and thus
reducing poverty.

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Added by Andy Nii Adjetey on February 23, 2010 at 5:30am — 2 Comments

Why people love children!

I just wanted to share my thoughts about children. I loves children because they are so innocent. In the community, where I am living, there are two kinds of children can be seen, one who comes from rich family and another comes from poor family. I love both because they are so excited to learn something new.

Just look at the following photo, you can see the happiness!! I want to se

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Added by Nandkishor Solanki on February 22, 2010 at 11:30am — No Comments

Women Together: Incentivising Savings

Prema Salgaonkar has been working with Mahila Milan for over 20 years and now heads a group of local facilitators of a daily savings scheme for Dharavi residents. Mahila Milan means "women together" and provides a decentralised vehicle for the empowerment of women via leadership roles and advocacy alongside its pivotal daily

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Added by Meena Kadri on February 21, 2010 at 4:34am — No Comments

Seth Godin's Book, Linchpin, and Secrets of So You Think You Can Dance

I’ve been an avid watcher of “So You Think You Can Dance” for years, and since reading Linchpin, Seth Godin’s latest book, it has become clear to me why. The show’s name is a litt

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Added by Yasmina Zaidman on February 18, 2010 at 12:43pm — No Comments

Intent drives incentive drives intent drives incentive drives incent... beautiful :)

Hello,
Its only February, but, its February already! I am trying with in a rather frantic manner to write here more:) I've been reading on and working in many more areas at the intersection of incentive driven community development, and technology. What drives me here is quite simple:
1) The world needs more people to do 'good deeds'. I define a good deed as one where both, or all, parties involved benefit from the deed. A bad deed on the other hand, is one where one party always loses s… Continue

Added by Madhu Chamarty on February 18, 2010 at 1:04am — No Comments

Social and Healthcare Outsourcing

Posted originally on Social Bio.

I'm currently reading Thomas Friedman's engaging book, The World is Flat. It is indeed amazing how creative people have been with respect to minimizing financial costs by using technology - especially through outsourcing and/or homesourcing. Friedman cites multiple examples among which is one that I personally found very interesting. It is about a McDonald franchise situated in Missouri that processes its driv

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Added by Isha Antani on February 10, 2010 at 4:25pm — 1 Comment

One Bike per Person (1BpP) #2

February 8, 2010, Blog #2: The Dream of a Sustainable World

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Added by Kevin Parcell on February 8, 2010 at 9:00am — No Comments

Special issue on German magazine "Ökologisches Wirtschaften"

The English version of a special issue on Social Entrepreneurship is now available for download free of charge from: http://www.botanik.uni-greifswald.de/fileadmin/getidos/pdfdownload/Special_Issue_on_Social_Entrepreneurship.pdf The Special Issue includes brief articles written by social entrepreneurs and noted international researchers including James A… Continue

Added by Sebastian Thielke on February 1, 2010 at 10:04am — 1 Comment

One Bike per Person (1BpP) #1

January 31, 2010, Blog #1: Where I'm Coming From

It's an amazing fact that after more than 5000 years with the wheel, most of humanity still doesn't have one. Even more amazing to me is that the rest of us mostly don't get it: Affordable personal tra… Continue

Added by Kevin Parcell on January 31, 2010 at 9:00am — No Comments

Funding for Homestead five capital development

The innovation of five capital development at the homestead attended with reproductive health care management & nutrition supplement in the rural community on a special human resources development training & credit program. To develop natural capital, physical capital, social capital, financial capital & human capital at each rural homestead attended with reproductive health care management & nutrition supplements to each homestead members. The human resources at each homestead… Continue

Added by Mohammad Ziaul Ahsan on January 30, 2010 at 10:11am — No Comments

Ignorance: The Main Root of Every Evil

Ignorance is the actual virus and knowledge is the power and vaccine. Knowledge, when informed and transmitted, becomes the power. It is a power for individuals, family, society and at large for the nation. He who knows is the most suitable to receive results first. Information about new knowledge in the quickest possible method is the vital call of the time and it can spread through several media like, radio, television, newspapers, print materials, flyers, billboards, songs, music, drama, movi… Continue

Added by Mohammad Ziaul Ahsan on January 28, 2010 at 11:53am — 1 Comment

Why I Give

I know that this is probably a really unpopular, potentially offensive thing to say, and I will say it anyway. I don’t go out of my way to support breast cancer research because, at this point in my life, my time and resources are limited. Since my time and resources are limited, then I have to take a hard look at where I spend both of them. When I take that look, I observe that a lot of people dedicate both their spare time and resources towards breast cancer research and awareness. It’s a topi… Continue

Added by Ricardo A. Gonzalez on January 27, 2010 at 8:00pm — 1 Comment

Evolution of altruism; from pure intent, to daily life tie-in, to...incentives?

First: happy new year to all! For my first post in the new year, I wanted to start with an interesting trend I noticed in how people are helping other people. Many will agree that the most common definitions of volunteering involve a person helping another with intent as the primary motive; they want to help, they feel good that they help. Any resulting benefits are pleasantly accepted, but not anticipated. E.g. volunteering at the animal shelter, or donating money to the Boys and Girls club of… Continue

Added by Madhu Chamarty on January 24, 2010 at 5:45am — No Comments

Be a Miracle

On the drive home today, I was thinking about Haiti and how frustrated I feel that I can't do something tangible, something real, that has to do with healing. There is going to be so much hurt, so much pain, for months and years to come. We'll forget about these people, go on with our lives, and still there will be so much to do. So, I started crying. My chest feels like it's going to explode. I just feel so connected to this, and I can't figure out why. Connected. Interconnected. We are all on… Continue

Added by Ricardo A. Gonzalez on January 21, 2010 at 5:00pm — No Comments

Do I (you) support GM crops in Africa???

Good Evening from Kenya . Just a quickie.... lately I have been asked a lot about if I support GM crops or not for rural farmers. To be honest, I am not a fanatic on the topic but rather focus on a much simpler answer for why I can't jump on the GM bandwagon. I will be happy when we get rural farmers in Africa consistently producing 40-50% of commercial rates rather than just 10-15% without defaulting to use of GM seed varieties. But I did just read a very interesting story about Monsanto's GM… Continue

Added by Rachel Zedeck on January 16, 2010 at 11:45am — No Comments

Haiti

We have a fascinating group of people, filled with people from all over the world with diverse backgrounds. How can our group best help Haiti at this time? What are your ideas? Let's get this going! Elizabeth Johnson Greenville, NC USA Continue

Added by Elizabeth Johnson on January 14, 2010 at 8:22pm — No Comments