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What Gives 365
I feel like I've been off my stride on the Decrease Worldsuck Project (sorry for those of you who wince at that name, but I'm sticking with it for now). I haven't recorded anything for an embarrassingly long time. Now I've found another woman's project which raised my embarrassment level even higher. I feel like a real slacker in comparison.
Her name is Betty Londergan (@blondergan on Twitter--why on earth doesn't she have more followers??) and she's started a blog called What Gives (which I've syndicated at Livejournal as![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-syndicated.gif)
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whatgives365_feed where she blogs about the project she's doing this year: she's going to give away $100 a day for a year, choosing to promote projects that make the world a better place.
Yesterday, for example, she highlighted a project call Global Cycle Solutions (on Twitter as @GlobalCycleSoln. The concept behind Global Cycle Solutions is to take the 1 billion bicycles in the world and put them to work for something besides pedaling around. Started in Cambridge, Massachusetts by a group of MIT engineers and brainiacs, GCS’s blinding flash of brilliance was to design a universal adaptor that allows bikes to do anything from processing agricultural food to running home appliances to charging batteries. (I found this iniative to be interesting, too, and syndicated their blog as well:globalcycle at Livejournal and globalcyclesolutions_feed at Dreamwidth.
Because Betty Londergan, like me, is apparently doing research to help her find ideas that make the world a better place, she ran across the contest put on by the Unreasonable Institute (follow them on Twitter at @beunreasonable. Global Cycle Solutions is one of the finalists of their contest; Betty is sponsoring ten of the finalists herself. See the video below. Here's something you can do to decrease worldsuck today: take a look at some of the finalists' entries and find one to help sponsor.
What I did today to make the world a better place: Syndicated feeds for Global Cycle Solutions and What Gives. Contacted Global Cycle Solutions to tell them about AfriGadget.
Her name is Betty Londergan (@blondergan on Twitter--why on earth doesn't she have more followers??) and she's started a blog called What Gives (which I've syndicated at Livejournal as
whatgives365 and at Dreamwidth as whatgives365_feed where she blogs about the project she's doing this year: she's going to give away $100 a day for a year, choosing to promote projects that make the world a better place. Yesterday, for example, she highlighted a project call Global Cycle Solutions (on Twitter as @GlobalCycleSoln. The concept behind Global Cycle Solutions is to take the 1 billion bicycles in the world and put them to work for something besides pedaling around. Started in Cambridge, Massachusetts by a group of MIT engineers and brainiacs, GCS’s blinding flash of brilliance was to design a universal adaptor that allows bikes to do anything from processing agricultural food to running home appliances to charging batteries. (I found this iniative to be interesting, too, and syndicated their blog as well:
globalcycle at Livejournal and globalcyclesolutions_feed at Dreamwidth.Because Betty Londergan, like me, is apparently doing research to help her find ideas that make the world a better place, she ran across the contest put on by the Unreasonable Institute (follow them on Twitter at @beunreasonable. Global Cycle Solutions is one of the finalists of their contest; Betty is sponsoring ten of the finalists herself. See the video below. Here's something you can do to decrease worldsuck today: take a look at some of the finalists' entries and find one to help sponsor.
What I did today to make the world a better place: Syndicated feeds for Global Cycle Solutions and What Gives. Contacted Global Cycle Solutions to tell them about AfriGadget.