Last week saw the launch of the We Can Be Heroes campaign. It’s an interesting one – it’s a partnership between DC Comics and a coalition of charities working in famine relief in the Horn of Africa. It uses the comic publisher’s well-known characters to raise awareness and encourage donations, with the tagline ‘one small [...]
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Take part in Free Money Day
How would you feel standing in the street, giving away your own money to passing strangers? Odd? Embarrassed? Generous? Liberated? There’s just a week to go before Free Money Day, a social experiment in sharing. On the 15th of September participants will do just that, giving away money a couple of coins at a time [...]
Saving lives
Guest post by Steve at Next Starfish Imagine you are walking to work and see a toddler flailing about in a pond, drowning. No one else is around to help. Without any risk to yourself you can easily wade in a few steps and pull the child to safety and save its life. Surely none [...]
Giving what we can
I came across Giving what we can yesterday, and thought it was rather inspiring. It’s a network of people who have realised how easy it is to give away a large proportion of their incomes, and have pledged to do so, starting with 10% and aiming to give the money to the best value for [...]
The life you can save, by Peter Singer
Peter Singer has worked out how to end poverty, several times over. If 90% of us in the West gave away just 1% of our incomes, and on a sliding scale, the richest 10% give away between 5% and a third, you’d have a pot of $1.5 trillion. That’s enough to meet the Millennium Development [...]
The Wilberforce Award – because endless growth is not sustainable
There’s been an unexpected twist to the economic growth debate in the last couple of weeks, with the launch of the Wilberforce Award. Australian businessman Dick Smith has offered $1 million to “a young person under 30 who can impress me by becoming famous through his or her ability to show leadership in communicating an [...]
The giving pledge
Could you give away 99% of what you own? Probably not, but that’s something Warren Buffett has promised recently. ”More than 99% of my wealth will go to philanthropy during my lifetime or at death” he wrote recently (pdf). “I will continue to live in a manner that gives me everything that I could possibly want in [...]
Raising a glass to the end of poverty
An entrepreneur in Australia has found a way of bringing together his passion for exotic beers and his interest in aid and development, and is opening a rather unusual bar in Melbourne. Shebeen will serve beers and wines from all around the world, with the $2 from each drink sale going back to the country [...]
Swap it!
Recessions are good for some things, and one of those things is alternative economies. Time banks, local currencies, bartering and swapping all see a resurgence whenever the economy takes a tumble. Swapping brings people together, saves you money, keeps stuff out of landfill and uses less of the earth’s resources. The internet makes swapping a [...]
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