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Play Spent
Could you make it through the month on the US minimum wage? Allow me to distract you with Spent, a clever online challenge highlighting the work of Urban Ministries Durham. Take the challenge here. HT Sharon
People for Corporate Tax Cuts
2011 is going to go down in the history books as the year of austerity. The textbooks will have to be re-written, as seventy years of economic wisdom is re-evaluated. In a crisis, the best thing to do is now is apparently to hunker down, and cut all unnecessary government spending. So this week the [...]
Let’s normalise – making carbon cutting normal
10:10 has had a very successful first year, inspiring and connecting tens of thousands of people, building a campaign to change daylight savings time, co-ordinating an international day of action in October, and even getting the government to commit to cutting its emissions by 1o% this year. But it’s 2011, and you may have noticed [...]
On being a Christian blog
Make Wealth History was voted number 5 in the Jubilee Centre’s top Christian blogs this week. That’s nice to hear, although I don’t really consider this to be a ‘Christian blog’ per se. That would imply that either it’s about Christianity or that it’s written for Christians, when it’s clearly much broader than that. Nevertheless, I am a [...]
Newsletters you’ll actually read
If you’re anything like me you get dozens of email newsletters from charities and websites, and I’ll bet half of them remain unread. They’re all well-meaning of course, but too many of them just aren’t quite interesting enough regularly enough. I read the updates from groups that I really like, but most newsletters are just [...]
The software that helps you do less
This week I came across a remarkable sub-genre of software that I wasn’t aware of – programs to help you do less. Or more to the point, to help you do fewer things. Apparently our computers can do too much at once, and our ability to multitask actually means we never focus on one thing. [...]
Eco-rescue rivers game
Everyone loves a free online game, especially one with a point. Here’s one from National Geographic, as part of their RBC Blue Water Project, a ten-year project to protect Canada’s rivers. It’s part of National Geographic’s recent focus on fresh water. In Eco-Rescue, you pilot your little boat and chuck the hook overboard to scoop [...]
The Dark Mountain project
There’s a new conversation spreading through the environmental movement at the moment. Their first conference is underway this weekend, the first issue of the journal is out this week, so it seems like a good time to engage with the Dark Mountain project. Essentially, the Dark Mountain proposal is that every civilization in history has [...]
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