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Philanthrocapitalism: How Giving Can Save the World A review of Matthew Bishop’s and Michael Green’s 2010 book of this name, about the philanthropy of rich capitalists. |
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What Birds are Telling Us Hundreds of millions of birds die each year. People will die too. |
Added August 2010 |
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Freecycle Recycle stuff for free within your local community. |
Added May 2009 |
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‘The Life You Can Save’ by Peter Singer A very brief book review of Peter Singer’s new (Feb. 2009) book: ‘The Life You Can Save: Acting now to end world poverty’. |
Added February 2009 |
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Doing Micro-philanthropy Now, Not Later: The Rose Red Gift Fund Rosanne DeBats (FairShare treasurer) explains how she has approached the first 5. She is putting money into her own Gift Fund, which donates to charities of her choice. |
Added August 2008 |
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Micro-philanthropy meets micro-finance If the idea of directly supporting people through a micro-finance loan (a la the Grameen Bank) appeals to you, then check out the www.kiva.org website. |
Added July 2008 |
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Why I Gave Up Flying Meteorologist Darren Ray’s presentation on Global Warming to the FairShare 2007 AGM. He explains why he had to give up flying. |
Added September 2007 |
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CO2 Neutral is Good. FSI Positive is Better. That was our advertising slogan for the 2007 Adelaide Festival of Ideas. Pam talks about the advertisement. |
Added June 2007 |
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The Simultaneous Policy Governments fail to act on many global problems, for fear of economic disadvantage compared to other countries. The Simultaneous Policy initiative provides a solution. |
Added September 2006 |
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A Year is All it Takes... Sophie Green’s 2006 AGM address, in which she tells us about putting the four FairShare principles into practice. She says the four principles “all interlink very neatly, feeding and strengthening each other”. |
Added May 2006 |
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Reflections on the Conditions which Nurture Kindness to Strangers Professor Dorothy Scott’s 2005 AGM address. Prof. Scott focusses on three conditions: the early parent-child attachment, social capital, and generativity (i.e. connectedness to past and future). |
Added May 2006 |
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2005 Festival of Ideas: Got formula? 5.10.5... Hayley Stevenson is one in a million for a lot of reasons, the scariest one being that in her age group she is almost alone in caring about the envi... |
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2005 Festival of Ideas (The Adelaide Review... YOUR ENVIRONMENTAL FOOTPRINT IS 7.7 HECTARES. A SUSTAINABLE ONE IS 1.8 HECTARES. WHAT CAN YOU DO? environmental footprint... |
Added June 2005 |
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James Arvanitakis, NSW (posted January 2005) I am a part-time academic at the University of Technology, Sydney, and a PhD candidate at the University of NSW. I am also a member of the AID/WATCH... |
Added January 2005 |
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Lunchtime discussion 30/09/2004 FOR BETTER or NO WORSE? (Or, Why bother to be good?)a lunchtime dialogue and discussion on personal ethics 1pm, Thursday 30 September 2004, Univer... |
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Description: The Moral Demands of Affluence The Moral Demands of Affluenceby Garrett Cullityhttp://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-925811-2 What follows is the publicity blurb from the back of this b... |
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Description: Well & Good Well & Good: How We Feel & Why It Mattersby Richard Eckersley, Text Publishing, Melbourne. RRP $32 The following is an abridged writer/publ... |
Added September 2004 |
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Review: Rambam’s Ladder Review of Rambam’s Ladder: A Meditation on Generosity and Why it is Necessary to Give, by Julie Salamon (Workman Publishing Co., New York, 2... |
Added September 2004 |
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Tipping Fairshare? Tipping FairShare? The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell. Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point: how little things can make a big difference (2000... |
Added July 2004 |
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What is the Fair Trade Association? What is the Fair Trade Association? The Fair Trade Association (FTA) seeks to bring together all interested parties in Australia and New Zealand to... |
Added July 2004 |
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ISOS Conference - May 2003 The ISOS conference issue explored in May related to sustainable energy supply options, and in particular a sustainable energy industry in Australia... |
Added August 2003 |
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Friends of the Earth Stephanie Long Climate Justice Campaigner Friends of the Earth Australia Phone 07 3846 5793 Mobile 0414 136 461 Email &n... |
Added July 2003 |
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ISOS Conference - April 2003 Theme - Land use & Natural Ecosystems The internet based In Search of Sustainability (ISOS) conference continued in April with the theme ... |
Added July 2003 |
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ISOS Conference – February 2003 Theme – Water. If Australia is to provide inter-generational equity to access of suitable quality water … Peter Cullen … COAG … |
Added July 2003 |
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