2011-12-12 10:53:55 // Esther Goh
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The government is being accused of burying a report that shows overwhelming public support for alcohol reform, including increasing prices and raising the purchase age.
2011-10-13 15:11:07 // Idealog
// The Idealog Blog
Festival for the Future is the latest venture for Splashroom Media, the socially conscious Dunedin filmmakers.
2011-09-09 10:30:48 // Sustain Team
// The Idealog Blog
Small businesses do care, but it seems they place more emphasis on helping their staff and the local community than on the environment. That’s the main finding from a survey of 2,170 small businesses, undertaken by BNI New Zealand. But the findings also show respondents still want more emphasis placed on environmental stewardship.
2011-09-07 13:52:28 // Vincent Heeringa
// Idealog #35: workshop
Peter Salmon is doing good and being paid for it; his hybrid programmes combine all the enthusiasm of entrepreneurs with social aims of do-gooders.
2011-09-07 10:30:02
// The Idealog Blog
The grandson of legendary Warren Buffett has grand plans to bring private-sector savvy to the growing world of mega-philanthropy.
2010-08-23 15:18:01 // Cassie Doherty
// The Idealog Blog :: The Idealist
Got the mid-winter blues, stuck in a rut, don't know where your life is going? Don't worry: this could be Your Big Year. A worldwide competition that's part of the UK's Global Entrepreneurship Week in November, Your Big Year's extremely lucky winner will embark on a 12-month, all-expenses-paid tour of the world, meeting celebrities and entrepreneurs, learning new skills and rolling up their sleeves for some volunteer work. Attend a conference in New York, take a limo ride in Vegas, learn photography in Africa, scuba dive in Australia, teach English in Ecuador, visit the Taj Mahal ... The aim is to encourage global citizenship and social responsibility through entrepreneurship. Whatever: it would sure beat surfing the net, watching telly and wondering how long till Labour Weekend.
2010-07-01 12:50:26 // Vincent Heeringa
// Idealog #28: plus
Creating trust ought to be the leading task of designers right now—trust in products, trust in people and trust in the idea that change is for the better
