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Egypt, Jan 25th – Take what’s yours!

The famous Egyptian revolution video by the young Egyptian American Tamer Shaaban has been nominated and...

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posted on: Jan 2012 | author: Janhvi Johorey

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posted on: Dec 2011 | author: Janhvi Johorey

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Long gone are the days of ignorance and powerlessness for people. Now is the peak of civilization and technology....

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posted on: Dec 2011 | author: Janhvi Johorey
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posted on: Dec 2011 | author: Janhvi Johorey

Can one man feed the entire world? If experts are to be believed, Danilo Atilano is a man who can do just that. Or let’s say – many...

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posted on: Nov 2011 | author: Janhvi Johorey

When Europeans first came they could drink out of the river water in Native American land.If they had lived like the Indians, they would be able to...

Marisa Casey: Creating Spaces for ‘Starting Artists’

Marisa Casey: Creating Spaces for ‘Star...

posted on: Nov 2011 | author: Samarpita Mukherjee Sharma

As the saying goes, if you want something done right, you have to do it yourself. When Marisa Casey was a teenager, all she wanted in the whole world...

Raju: 1 Billion(!) Trees in a Day! Meet India’s Planting Guru.

Raju: 1 Billion(!) Trees in a Day! Meet India...

posted on: Nov 2011 | author: Samarpita Mukherjee Sharma

An Indian civil servant, SM Raju, has come up with a novel way of providing employment to millions of poor in the eastern state of Bihar. According...

Zainab Salbi: Helping War-affected Women Rebuild their Lives with WomenForWomen

Zainab Salbi: Helping War-affected Women Rebu...

posted on: Nov 2011 | author: Samarpita Mukherjee Sharma

Some of us dream about happiness, new house, new car, new job, while others look for love. But, at the end don’t we all have just one and truly...

Gaukhar Yerezhepova – Clean Air for Kazakhstan

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posted on: Nov 2011 | author: Samarpita Mukherjee Sharma

2011 is the United Nations International Year of Forests (find more online: Forests, 2011 at www.un.org). So, with a good part of the year already...

CouchSurfer Levente Kádár: Opening Your Door to Travellers

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posted on: Nov 2011 | author: Samarpita Mukherjee Sharma

You have the wanderlust and love to travel around the world. While roughing it a bit is never a problem, accommodation almost always is. Either...

KidsAndCars: Spreading awareness about car-related injuries

KidsAndCars: Spreading awareness about car-re...

posted on: Nov 2011 | author: Samarpita Mukherjee Sharma

Brenda Slaby’s daughter Cecilia died after Slaby left her in her car while at work. Cecilia died  of heatstroke after being left for nearly...

How A March By Children Ended Segregation In USA’s Most Segregated Town

How A March By Children Ended Segregation In ...

posted on: Oct 2011 | author: Janhvi Johorey

The Children’s March was a march by hundreds of school students in Birmingham, Alabama, on May 2, May 3, and May 4, 1963, during the American...

Meat.org: The Website the Meat Industry Does Not Want You to See

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posted on: Oct 2011 | author: Janhvi Johorey

Animals killed for food are neglected, tortured, kept in filthy conditions, and often slaughtered in painful ways, such as having their throats cut...

Bunker Roy: Barefoot College for the Poor

Bunker Roy: Barefoot College for the Poor

posted on: Oct 2011 | author: Janhvi Johorey

In Rajasthan, India, an extraordinary school teaches rural women and men — many of them illiterate — to become solar engineers,...

Gross National Happiness Explained by Morten Sondergaard

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posted on: Oct 2011 | author: Janhvi Johorey

People strive for economic growth and live happily. But, what about the poor people who live in misery and poverty all their lives? Morten...

A Plenitude Economy: Vision for the Future

A Plenitude Economy: Vision for the Future

posted on: Oct 2011 | author: Janhvi Johorey

A post-consumer society could have people working fewer hours and pursuing re-skilling, homesteading, and small-scale enterprises that can help...

Girls, Not Brides: Stopping Child Marriage

Girls, Not Brides: Stopping Child Marriage

posted on: Oct 2011 | author: Janhvi Johorey

“Great change can happen within a single generation. I know this to be true.” – Desmond Tutu In a video from Girls Not...

Grameen Shakti(Solar)- Muhammad Yunus Shares Grameen Success Stories

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posted on: Oct 2011 | author: Janhvi Johorey

“Next, we wanted to bring Solar Energy to villages. 70% of villages in Bangladesh have no electricity. We thought, we want to take a little solar...

Home Front: Portraits from Sheikh Jarrah

Home Front: Portraits from Sheikh Jarrah

posted on: Oct 2011 | author: Janhvi Johorey

Featuring the accounts of a Palestinian teenager forced to share his house with settlers, an American-born Israeli mother who gets drawn into the...

mothers2mothers : Eradicating HIV in children. Meet Dr. Mitchell Besser and Gene Falk

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posted on: Oct 2011 | author: Monika Talreja

A mother and child relationship is probably the only one in the world which is unconditional and undemanding, filled with love and care. Ask any...

CAFI and the Nature Conservancy: Empowering Indigenous People

CAFI and the Nature Conservancy: Empowering I...

posted on: Oct 2011 | author: Janhvi Johorey

The Amazon Indigenous Training Center (CAFI, as it is locally known) is a groundbreaking TNC-sponsored initiative for indigenous people in the...

35$ tablet pcs: Reaching for the sky- and getting it! Akash tablet PCs for every child in India

35$ tablet pcs: Reaching for the sky- and get...

posted on: Oct 2011 | author: Janhvi Johorey

What can YOU do on your COMPUTER? What can WE do when we ALL have a computer? What can we MAKE? CREATE? How much more can we COMMUNICATE? By Andie...

The 13 Grandmothers Council

The 13 Grandmothers Council

posted on: Oct 2011 | author: Janhvi Johorey

“Nothing will change until we change” from “For the Next Seven Generations”, a documentary about the Thirteen Grandmothers ...

Music for Education in Nepali villages. The Playing for Change Foundation in Tintale

Music for Education in Nepali villages. The P...

posted on: Sep 2011 | author: Janhvi Johorey

7-10,000 nepalese girls between the age of 9 and 16 are being lured away, sold and trafficked to India each year. About 70% of the rescued girls are...

The Elders: Global Leaders Working for Peace and Human Rights

The Elders: Global Leaders Working for Peace ...

posted on: Sep 2011 | author: Janhvi Johorey

Chaired by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, The Elders is an independent group of global leaders who work together for peace and human rights. They were...

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