Google is running a project to find which ideas people think would benefit the most people. It is called the 10 to the 100 project. (This number, 1 followed by a hundred zeroes is called a googol – which is what google was named after.) What google did was ask for ideas to benefit the [...]
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Once a year bloggers from around the world unite by writing on a topic about making the world a better place. This is co-ordinated by the Blog Action Day blog. The topic is chose by voting. This year it is Global Warming/Climate Change. If you are a blogger I encourage you to join me by [...]
This post is just to alert you to what I think is a very important book and website. They are about the relationship between social equality and health. There is good correlation between the equality in a nation and the health of all people in that nation. That is, greater equality is not only in [...]
One of the more remarkable developments of the last decade or so is the Slow Food movement. (It has now grown well beyond a focus on food and eating.) It has spread throughout the world and has many thousands of members. The name may be a bit misleading. It is about more than slowness. The [...]
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Curiously it is usually males who are told to, “Be a man!” Sometimes it’s boys (who aren’t men yet) sometimes it’s adult males – which is perhaps even stranger: aren’t they men already? The answer is no: being a man is an achievement; it is not a description but an evaluation. There is a difference [...]
We eat every day. What we eat affects our health and how our food is produced affects not only our health but has to do with other people’s lives (the work they do, how well they are paid and so on. This post is a quick round up of posts on the place of food [...]
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God is dead – Friedrich Nietzsche There’s no one there, you can do what you bloody well like – Kerry Packer (Australian businessman, after being revived from a heart attack). This post isn’t directly about wellbeing and health as we normally understand them. It is about spirituality (and our values). What I think about Nietzsche. [...]
These three blogs are all about changing our world for the better. First up, because it has the biggest agenda, is On The Commons. This blog covers the whole of our social lives from the perspective of what we share – rather than private ownership. It is biased to the US in its coverage. Consistently [...]
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