Win $5,000 Contest for Your Idea that Will Change the World

 

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I am going to use the $5K to jump start green job creation in Oakland, CA. The name of the 501(c)(3) nonprofit is The Couch Liberation Front. Using reclaimed, recycled, fair trade, nontoxic materials and expertise from the community, we hope to help non-college bound young people work and think with their hands. We will give them a craft, a trade, and they may come up with some beautiful and functional art! Meanwhile, we rebuild America's workforce with style. Keep the couches out of the landfills! Get the young folks off the unemployment couch!

 

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What happen to allison Lombardo's idea.

 

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Mother Earth Is Waiting for Us, There's a Debt We Have to Pay... Consumer Credit Card Debt for Nature Swaps:

More than any single thing in your current CSR report, I am most inspired by the founders' basic decision to commit the company's business to serving unto the 7th generation. We know that our current consumption rates are bankrupting the carrying capacity of the natural world upon which all life depends. And yet we continue consuming as if this bubble will never burst. Sound

 

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Jane Byrd says (with homage to Tracy Nelson): Mother Earth Is Waiting For Us: There's a Debt We Have to Pay

More than any one thing in your current CSR report I am inspired by your founder's basic decision to commit his company to serving life unto the 7th generation. I propose that we further leverage consumer choices impacts on the common good by enjoining our government to set up Consumer Credit Card Debt for Nature Swaps. Government buys up credit card debt, eliminates usary by sett

 

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Hmmmm... can ideas change the world? - not without communication they can't : ) So systems that have continuity - where communication can be continuous, are key to integrity right? So I'm thinking of the Iroquois inspiration of continuous legacy and a great company like 7 generations and how they recognize that is not enough to use natural ingredients; rather they wish to participate in a broader effort to use natural resources at a rate below that at which the natural system sustains itself. Th

 

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Enlisting Web Geeks For Social Change

IDEA: To enlist web geeks as digital coaches for a cadre of exceptional nonprofits that will push the entire nonprofit sector forward in the Web 2.0 world.

INSPIRATION: Seventh Generation has managed to use the power of social media to reach its dual goals of profit and social justice.

RATIONALE: Nonprofits could significantly accelerate their impact if given the opportunity to tap into the digital marketing exper

 

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RALLY (Responsible Action Leaders Link for Youth):

A continuum of Action workshops to develop entrepreneurs based ethical principles and practices

Enabling & mentoring Young Leaders to Design, Develop and initiate ethical business for economic growth. Ideas will be developed through experiential learning design workshops with different Stakeholders working together and developing business initiatives after analysing the real needs and resources. Than the trained young bu

 

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Enabling & mentoring Young Leaders to Design, Develop and initiate ethical business for economic growth. Ideas will be developed through experiential learning design workshops with different Stakeholders working together and developing business initiatives after analysing the real needs and resources. Than the trained young business leaders create ripple of virtue by replicating through already present or newly generated Networks.

 

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I have tried several times to post this as a comment to my original idea with no succcess, so please pardon my posting this as a "new" idea.

I would like to clarify my original idea, and how I would propose to spend the $5000 reward. Basically, I am proposing a best practices/benchmarking system focused on the following four areas to promote more sustainable air travel

1) Develop related technology to make planes more ecologically viable, such as lighter materials for

 

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The idea in the 7th Generation CSR report that stood out to me most was on the cover, 'Spheres of Influence.'

The whole report that followed, centered around the theme of spreading the influence of positive change. It is a concept that has been communicated with many similar phrase such as 'ripple effect', 'domino effect', and 'chain reaction'. However, I found that it pairing those words with the imagery of a dandelion immediately gave me a sense of hope, that we can wish for a sus