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Who would have thought that humble lemonade could be an agent of social change? Enter Germany’s fair-trade LemonAid, which just may be the world’s most socially-responsible manufactured beverage on the planet, often described as half soft drink and half developmental aid.
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Many of us own valuable stuff we just don’t want anymore. But instead of giving it away or selling it, we allow it to clutter our households and businesses. Billions of great items are just wasting away, taking up space.
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Sharing, lending, trading, bartering and other non-monetary transactions are becoming the norm in these depressed economic times. It is also green since we don't need to buy stuff that we only use rarely.
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There are a billion people living without clean water. Four years ago, some people had a crazy idea. They asked friends to give up their birthdays gifts for donations instead. 100% of the money raised is used to build water projects. Every year, it got bigger. They now helped over a million people get clean water. This September, join them again, start a campaign, give up your birthday. It can change the world.
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Did you know that your Facebook friends can be the spark that starts a movement that changes the world? Your ability to organize friends around the world is powerful when combined with other activists’ ability to do the same.
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From the mundane debris of food wrappers and cigarette butts to a pile of spring onions, our world beaches are strewn with litter. Coastal communities are bearing the brunt of the rising tide of litter, which has massive ramifications on tourism, fishing and water sports
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As entire societies have embraced sustainability in everything as the way forward, and as millions of consumers are now actively trying to "greenify" their lives, green credentials are an endless source of status. For an increasing number of consumers, the mere act of consuming less, is the greenest status fix of all.
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A new online platform makes it easy for you to support an organization or cause that you care about, in a few minutes of spare time. The platform is entirely virtual: Everything happens online, on your terms, whenever you are free. It is caled "micro-volunteering."
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Crowdsourcing is the act of outsourcing tasks, traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, to a large group of people or community (a crowd), through an open call. The term has become popular with businesses, authors, and journalists as shorthand for the trend of leveraging the mass collaboration enabled by Web 2.0 technologies to achieve business goals.
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When we talk about making cities sustainable, bike lanes and rooftop gardens get mentioned more often than better trash cans. But in our downtowns, sanitation trucks make near-constant trips to collect garbage from unsightly, overflowing containers—adding to pollution and traffic.
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