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Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Leveraging Social Media 4 Social Good



JOSEPH KONY IS ONE OF THE WORLD’S WORST WAR CRIMINALS AND I SUPPORT THE INTERNATIONAL EFFORT TO ARREST HIM, DISARM THE LRA AND BRING THE CHILD SOLDIERS HOME.


INVISIBLE CHILDREN: KONY 2012 Sign the pledge 

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Happy V Day!


I like-like the world and Mercy Corps
xoxo mary

Oil Companies, Where Is The Money Going?


More than 60 percent of the world’s poorest people live in countries rich in natural resources—but they rarely share in the wealth. Too often, poor communities have no say in the extraction of resources from their land and receive little information about these projects. But oil, gas, and mining projects don’t have to add to poverty and powerlessness; in fact, they can help communities overcome these challenges.


Oxfam’s Right to Know Right to Decide campaign challenges international oil, gas, and mining companies to respect a community’s right to decide if or how they want oil, gas, and mining development to take place in their community, and their right to know about the impacts and benefits of these projects. 

TELL BIG OIL COMPANIES: IT'S TIME TO COME CLEAN!
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Saturday, January 28, 2012

Potential of Social Media & Social Change in Africa



Portland 

New research reveals how Africa Tweets

http://notebook.portland-communications.com/2012/01/new-research-reveals-how-africa-tweets/

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Put Your Filth To Good Work


Charity SWEAR BOX from Fueled on Vimeo.



Charity Swearbox was born in the minds of James Dow and Jay Gelardi, two creative friends who met whilst working together who wanted to do something good with the ideas part of their brains.
The site was designed by James Dow and Robert Evans who runs the very talentedTelegramme studio, home of some very beautiful illustration.
Last but by no means least the site was developed by Rameet Chawla and his team atFueled in New York who put a huge amount of work into the project.
In the spirit of collaboration everyone came together to create something fun, exciting, new and importantly; good for the world.

Friday, December 16, 2011

MDG Progress



The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are eight international development goals that all 193 United Nations member states and at least 23 international organizations have agreed to achieve by the year 2015. They include eradicating extreme poverty, reducing child mortality rates, fighting disease epidemics such as AIDS, and developing a global partnership for development.

Learn more about the goals here.

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Monday, November 28, 2011

Cyber Monday :: Buy Less

Today is Cyber Monday. It will likely be the biggest online shopping day ever. Cyber Monday was created by the National Retail Federation in 2005 to focus media and public attention on online shopping. But Cyber Monday, and the culture of consumption it reflects, puts the economy of natural systems that support all life firmly in the red. We're now using the resources of one-and-a-half planets on our one and only planet.

Because Patagonia wants to be in business for a good long time – and leave a world inhabitable for our kids – we want to do the opposite of every other business today. We ask you to buy less and to reflect before you spend a dime on this jacket or anything else.

Environmental bankruptcy, as with corporate bankruptcy, can happen very slowly, then all of a sudden. This is what we face unless we slow down, then reverse the damage. We're running short on fresh water, topsoil, fisheries, wetlands – all our planet's natural systems and resources that support business, and life, including our own.

The environmental cost of everything we make is astonishing. Consider the R2® Jacket shown, one of our best sellers. To make it required 135 liters of water, enough to meet the daily needs (three glasses a day) of 45 people. Its journey from its origin as 60% recycled polyester to our Reno warehouse generated nearly 20 pounds of carbon dioxide, 24 times the weight of the finished product. This jacket left behind, on its way to Reno, two-thirds its weight in waste.

And this is a 60% recycled polyester jacket, knit and sewn to a high standard; it is exceptionally durable, so you won't have to replace it as often. And when it comes to the end of its useful life we'll take it back to recycle into a product of equal value. But, as is true of all the things we can make and you can buy, this jacket comes with an environmental cost higher than its price.

There is much to be done and plenty for us all to do. Don't buy what you don't need. Think twice before you buy anything. Go to patagonia.com/CommonThreads, take the Common Threads Initiative pledge and join us in the fifth “R,” to reimagine a world where we take only what nature can replace.

Take the pledge

-Patagonia

Friday, November 11, 2011

Eleven. Eleven. Eleven.



Where can you go from there? Where?...Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?...Eleven. Exactly. One louder.

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Here’s To The Crazy Ones

"The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, 
are the ones who do." 
-Apple




Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being.  Steve leaves behind a company that only he could have built, and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple.