COMMUNITIES
Here we introduce you to interesting groups, topics and projects.
The Bottom 100
the other end of the World's Rich List
The Bottom 100 was launched to give a face and voice to the people at the other end of the World’s Rich List. It is all too easy to think of “the bottom billion” in the abstract – but we hope that shining a light on even a tiny fraction of the world’s poor will put a human face on the suffering and crushing inequality endured by so many.
Jhamtse Gatsal
Children's Community
The Jhamtse Gatsal campus.It is a community, a school, and a home for about 90 children ranging in age from toddler to adolescent. Jhamtse Gatsal lies in the district of Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh, India, and the children come from nearby villages. Each of these children has a background of adversity. Our driving goal is to provide these children with better lives, helping them to achieve their fullest potential.
DC CENTRAL KITCHEN:
We fight hunger differently
DC Central Kitchen is a nonprofit developer of innovative social ventures that break the cycle of hunger and poverty. We fight hunger differently by using career training, job creation, and sustainable business practices to strengthen local food systems and reduce disparities in health and economic opportunity.
Karuna Society for Animals and Nature
Working together to end the suffering of animals
Karuna Society for Animals and Nature has been established in Puttaparthi, Andhra Pradesh, South India since 2000. It is a registered non-profit organization working for animal welfare and the environment by providing free medical care and shelter for sick, injured, abandoned and abused animals, while sustaining all food production with organic farming and alternative fuels.
New STORY FILM
As we change our story, we change our world
We humans find our way by story. Our stories shape us, hold us and give meaning to our lives. Every so often it becomes clear that a prevailing story is no longer serving. Now is such a time. Humanity needs a new, inspiring picture of the future to live into.
International Justice Mission
Violence - Today, it is the most urgent threat for millions of the poorest people.
Violence is an everyday threat. According to the United Nations, 4 billion people live outside the protection of the law. That means that their public justice systems – their police, courts, and laws – are so broken, corrupt and dysfunctional, that there is nothing to shield them from violence.
Project GreenHands
88.5 million living trees planted
Project GreenHands (PGH) is the environmental initiative of Isha Foundation that aims to increase the green cover of the state of Tamil Nadu to the required 33% green cover by planting 114 million trees.
Social Visionaries Conference:
A Vision Coming Into Manifestation
The idea behind the conference is to create community, to come together as a collective and raise the conscious energy on all levels, the conference is not only a space to gather, but also to have the experience of change. To have the opportunity to step in as a group to be a game changer, to understand truly what it means to be a global citizen, to really reap the benefits of what it is to be of service. This is a first for Omega and I must mention very excited to be at the foundation of this conference, to use the gathering as this opportunity to raise a school…
Woman Quits Job To Build Sustainable Bamboo Homes In Bali
Elora Hardy left a successful career in the NY fashion scene to build bamboo houses in Indonesia. The Bali resident and her team have spent the last 5 years revolutionizing bamboo construction in the belief that it is an underused but ideal renewable resource. Hardy uses boron, which occurs naturally in nature, to treat the bamboo and make it indigestible to insects.
The Transformal Network
The Transformal Network is an experimental meeting forum without guru, dogmas and membership at different places in the German-speaking area.
In the variable structure of this togetherness it is shown that the synergy among people from the most different spiritual traditions – mysticism, religion, esotericism and social politics – is actually possible!
Strange and beautiful trees from across the world
People learn at a very early age just how important trees are to the world – they give us shade from harmful UV rays, hold the soil together to prevent erosion, and play a vital role in providing air. It is easy to admire their utility, however it is very easy to overlook just how interesting and beautiful they can be. Here are a number of strange and wondrous trees from across our amazing planet for your enjoyment.
Pun Pun
Centere for Self Reliance
Mr. Happy Man
For six hours each day, Bermuda’s Johnny Barnes stands at a busy traffic intersection telling all who pass that he loves them. His delight and sincerity are infectious, and the people of the island love him back. His service is a simple reminder of the power of happiness and loving-kindness to change any day for the better.
Common Good Economy
design for
A W.I.S.H.
A World Institute for a Sustainable Humanity
Is an international nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide models and support for life sustaining activities that integrate solutions to poverty and the environment while fostering self-reliance. It was founded in March of 1995 and is registered as an NGO in fourteen countries and states. To learn more about the history and vision of A W.I.S.H., listen to an interview with or read a 15-year retrospective by President and CEO, Michael Karp.
What is Living Gaia?
Dr. C. Otto Scharmer
Otto Scharmer is a senior lecturer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management. He is co-founder of the Presencing Institute, and the founding chair of the MIT IDEAS Program, that takes leaders from civil society, government and business from Indonesia and China on a nine month action learning journey in order to co-create profound social innovation in their communities. With the German government (GIZ Global Leadership Academy) and the Gross National Happiness Centre in Bhutan, he co-founded the Global Well-being and Gross National Happiness Lab, which brings together innovative thinkers from developing and industrialized countries to prototype new ways of measuring well-being and social progress.
1 Million Women
Sounds visionary, right?
But this is the invention of jordanian-canadian architect, designer and artist abeer seikaly.