Win $5,000 Contest for Your Idea that Will Change the World
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Win $5,000! Tell us what idea in our Seventh Generation CSR Report inspired you and how you would use $5,000 to take that idea and make a difference. Application deadline is December 31, 2008. To apply:
1) Get inspired by reading the 7th Generation CSR Report
2) In the comment space below, give us a short summary of what idea in our CSR report inspired you and how you would use $5,000 to make a difference. Interesting ideas will be invited to submit a full proposal.
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Bill Reinthaler | Posted: 3 March 2009
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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Robert Lombardo | Posted: 3 March 2009
What happen to allison Lombardo's idea.
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Jane Byrd | Posted: 2 January 2009
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 | Posted: 1 January 2009
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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Aurora Mahassine | Posted: 31 December 2008
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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Jen Chiu | Posted: 31 December 2008
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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Ambree Waheed | Posted: 31 December 2008
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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Ambree Waheed | Posted: 31 December 2008
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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Audrey Henderson | Posted: 31 December 2008
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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Ivy Chuang | Posted: 31 December 2008
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
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