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Children Poverty: We need to ‘Put it right’

August 13, 20104:31 pm

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It is the end of the week and it has been a good week for me and most importantly my family.

Today’s post topic is a simple but at the same time so complicated one. How do we tackle the problem of children poverty around the globe or to write it in UNICEF words: ‘How do we put it right?’.

‘Put it right’ is the title of a 5 year long campaign by UNICEF. UNICEF is working in over 190 countries to protect the rights of all children and ensure that their voices are heard. It is a gigantic campaign in Children Poverty: We need to ‘Put it right’ both outreach and importance and today’s post is dedicated to raising awareness for this important campaign.

We as Sustainability / CSR professionals and advocates already have a ‘soft-spot’ for social engagement and raising awareness of difficult topics all centered around Sustainability / CSR. That’s why I believe we all need to support as many social causes as possible. This campaign is one of these.

Here is the campaign video:

So what are you doing to make the world a better place? Help us and make a donation today or do whatever you can. I am doing my bit and I hope you can help as well.

Have a good weekend everyone and thanks for reading my blog.

A great way to show your appreciation and support publishers in the Sustainability / CSR field

August 11, 20107:28 am

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Some of you might have noticed that there is a button on each post and on the main site called ‘flattr’.

What is flattr?

flattr is a social micropayment platform that lets you show appreciation for the things you like, help support the people you like and enable them to continue with what they do.

flattr logo A great way to show your appreciation and support publishers in the Sustainability / CSR field Everyone can add their own things to flattr and receive appreciation from others. It is a simple but very effective way to combine the aspects of the appreciation and reward for the content you as a publisher are producing.

This is a short video about flattr:

In my opinion flattr is a great way for blogger and publishers in the Sustainability / Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) field to not have to ask for donations or put advertisements on their site but to simply add flattr and in this way collect monetary support for their work. Currently flattr is brand new and you either need to register to get an invite or you can simply ask me. icon smile A great way to show your appreciation and support publishers in the Sustainability / CSR field I still have three invitation codes left.

So why not simply sign up with flattr, start flattring and support other publishers in our field for the great work they are doing?

Note: I am not affiliated by flattr in any way but just believe that the developers really have thought this through and I have decided to use it on my site.

Help us to tackle poverty and climate change: Support the Robin Hood Tax

February 10, 201012:50 pm

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I am not really the big campaigner and I am highly critical of many campaigns that are supposed to help the poor and that aim to help to fight climate change but today a campaign was launched that I am strongly supporting and that I wanted you to know about. This campaign is intended to introduce a so called ‘Robin Hood Tax’.

robinhood Help us to tackle poverty and climate change: Support the Robin Hood Tax

This is how the idea is being described on the campaign website:
‘The Robin Hood Tax is a tiny tax on bankers that would raise billions to tackle poverty and climate change, at home and abroad. By taking an average of 0.05% from speculative banking transactions, hundreds of billions of pounds would be raised every year. That’s easily enough to stop cuts in crucial public services in the UK, and to help fight global poverty and climate change.’

This video comes with the launch today. It makes it very clear what the logic behind the tax is.

Here are some recent articles about the launch:
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2010/02/10/business/business-uk-britain-banktax.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8506718.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/feb/10/robin-hood-tax-pressing-problems
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/02/10/celebs-charities-and-unions-call-for-robin-hood-tax-on-banks-to-help-the-poor-115875-22031754/
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-02-09/-robin-hood-tax-on-banks-would-aid-poor-u-k-non-profits-say.html

So please sign up to help us promote this possible tax to help the poor and fight climate change. Remember every good thing you do, no matter how small, will make our world a better place. None of us can change the world on our own but we can definitely change the world together.