TIME magazine “Heroes of the Environment” issue
Sep 30, 2008 Information of the Day
TIME
The European, Asian and South Pacific editions of the TIME magazine has come out with the “Heroes of the Environment” edition. It claims to be an annual special report on “our annual celebration of the people who are changing our world.” Pick up your copy from the newstands or hit the read link here.
Let us know your views and opinion about the issues and people covered in the magazine.
Tags: Current Affairs, Environment, Green Technology, News, TIME magazine
OLPC - Give one laptop to a needy child, get one laptop
Sep 30, 2008 Education/Literacy, Philanthropy and Corporate Initiatives, Social Initiatives
OLPC
The Massachusetts based One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) foundation which aims to increase laptop penetration amongst the children of the the developing world has announced its “Give One, Get One” program this year, and has confirmed a November 17 date. from Amazon No word on the price yet, but $399 is quite likely. That is not anywhere near the original $100 per laptop target, but if you want to contribute for this good cause, do check out the OLPC website. Read the rest of this entry »
Now you can get a laptop ( or a netbook, if you prefer to call it that!) for Christmas and feel good about it too!
Tags: $100 Laptop, Education, OLPC, XO
Plan your Ecotourism vacation online at Whole Travel
Sep 30, 2008 Startups
Planning your next vacation, but cannot decide how best to leave just footprints and not plastic bags at the scenic spots? A travel website called Whole Travel can help you find the best ecotourism solutions.
Whole Travel
Ecotourism is the trend where travelers minimize their cultural, economic, and environmental impacts as much as possible to promote sustainability. But while there are thousands of hotels worldwide that promote themselves as “green”, many of them are only partially fulfilling these requirements - they might not be wasting energy, but are paying locals at near-slave wages, or funneling money out of the local economy.
Tags: Ecotourism, Green Technology, Startup, Sustainable Tourism, Whole Travel
YouTube initiative towards fighting poverty
Sep 27, 2008 Philanthropy and Corporate Initiatives, Social Initiatives
YouTube
YouTube on Thursday announced that it’s going to do its part to fight global poverty by launching “In My Name,” a global effort to raise awareness about the UN Millenium Development Goals.
In September 2000, at the United Nations Millennium Summit, world leaders agreed to the Millennium Development Goals, a set of time-bound and measurable goals for combating poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and discrimination against women.
The deadline to achieve the Millennium Development Goals is September 2015 — we must act now if we want to achieve these goals by their deadline.
Welcome to DoNoBad
Sep 27, 2008 Uncategorized
Mahatma Gandhi
DoNoBad is a blog following the latest news and analysis on CSR, Greentech and Sustainable Living!
And before you think that the name sound moralistic and preaching, I thought of it as an ironical statement / name. Because we can not change human habits and make companies and individuals behave only through moral preaching. We cannot ask people to live in caves to conserve energy. What is need are financial carrots and sticks to make them behave in the desired way - so that they use more fuel efficient technologies or waste less water and so on.
Today, as the ongoing financial crisis makes the world leaders debate executive compensation, the Chinese contamination of milk products warrants a relook at many products both from quality as well as human cost factor perspectives and the energy prices and increasing of frequency of hurricanes makes us question our lifestyle, sustainable resource consumption and conservation are not options, but the only alternatives.
“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed”
- Mahatma Gandhi.
So we need to have taxes and other financial disincentives to stem the greed.
As an individual or as part of an organisation, it is up to us to use our natural resources - air, water, energy, etc - judiciously and in sustainable manner. We should also try to make the lives of our less fortunate population from around the world better, perhaps using the forces of “Creative Capitalism”, in the words of Bill Gates.
Creative Capitalism :Bill Gates, Bono and Michael Dell.
DoNoBad will strive to be a place where you can get the latest news, analysis and more on all these.
Moreover, the DoNoBad forums is where anyone can discuss related topics, share new and exciting developments, ask for help to implement CSR or Green Initiatives and post as well as search for “Greencollar” jobs.
Enough of introductory talk. Now back to the work of bringing the real stuff for all of you!
Good luck! And see you soon!
Tags: Creative Capitalism, CSR, DoNoBad Forums, Green Collar Jobs, GreenTechnologies, Mahatma Gandhi