New York City has unveiled a new ad campaign encouraging people to put down sodas, sugary juices and sports drinks, store-made coffee drinks, and other beverages laden with sugar and high fructose corn syrup in an effort to educate New Yorkers on calorie consumption.
The campaign, which features a graphic image of human fat being poured from a plastic soda bottle, follows a previous a NYC campaign which aimed to reduce obesity in the city by requiring restaurants by law to post the calorie counts of it's food. Posters displayed in New York subway cars informed New Yorkers that "2,000 calories a day is all most adults should eat." Read more...
Both are so inspirational, it's tough to decide which is my favourite resource for just about everything. Read more...
Not sure what it’s doing other than knocking the small white blossoms off the tree. Blossoms that will turn to small smooth round balls of sweet fruit.
Flapping its wings of black and orange. Collapsing them from view. The butterfly waits motionless. I've never seen a butterfly visit this tree. Maybe one comes everyday. But I am too busy reading emails and writing to see the natural world unfold before me. Read more...
The Global Corner International Learning Center has posters of works from Picasso and several paella pans imported from Spain among the many items left over from their Passport to Spain Program. Twenty-nine schools participated in virtual trips to Spain with The Global Corner. Thousands of Escambia County elementary students learned about Spanish geography, language, dance, art, literature, and food during the 2008-09 school year. Using exciting, hands-on activities, The Global Corner helped the students learn more about the Spanish Explorers who founded Pensacola and about Spain today. Read more...
Dit is behalve een belangrijk millenniumdoel ook de naam van een 15-delige kaartenset met aangrijpende foto’s over onderwijs in ontwikkelingslanden. De kaarten zijn gedrukt op een groot formaat (17X17 cm) en worden geleverd in een fraaie box. De opbrengsten uit de verkoop zijn bestemd voor de educatieve projecten van de stichting EduHulp. • 15 kaarten in een box. • prijs €10,- (+verzendkosten) Te bestellen via www.eduhulp.nl Read more...
What is perspective? It is more than just how we view everything. Perspective is how we choose to view everything.
Do we really have a choice about our perspective? Read more...
The Opportunity Collaboration is a four-day, purpose-driven networking and problem solving summit commencing on World Poverty Day.
In a focused and intensive series of working business meetings, social entrepreneurs, nonprofit leaders, social financiers, grant-makers and agents of change will explore unprecedented levels of collaboration, identify opportunities for leveraging resources across organizations and accelerate proven models for reducing poverty. Read more...
Een aangrijpende fotografische reis langs de wereld van kinderen en onderwijs. Dit prachtige boek zet onderwijs in het zonlicht, docenten in de spotlights en biedt kansarme kinderen hoop op een betere toekomst. De opbrengsten uit de verkoop zijn bestemd voor de educatieve projecten van de stichting EduHulp. * Auteur: Jakob Schuiringa met een voorwoord van Paul Rosenmöller. * Te bestellen voor €17,50 (+verzendkosten) via www.eduhulp.nl Read more...
Only a woman would be able to photograph women living in the Muslim world and even some women behind a veil. What sense of truth is present? What perspective is revealed in the eyes of the photographer?
Portraits and Stories of Women in the Middle East exhibit is open to the public in Geneva at the Museum of the International Committee of the Red Cross and Red Crescent (ICRC) from September 23rd to January 24, 2010. Read more...
The Pachamama Alliance will lead an Awakening the Dreamer session at the The European Summit for Global Transformation to be held at the World Trade Centre in Rotterdam on the 20, 21 and 22 of november 2009.
The Pachamama Alliance's mission is twofold: To preserve the earth's tropical rainforests by empowering the indigenous people who are its natural custodians, and to contribute to the creation of a new global vision of equity and sustainability for all. Read more...
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