HOW WE CAN IMPROVE THE WORLD – IDEAS THAT MAKE A DIFFERENCE

HOW TO MAKE THE UN RELEVANT AGAIN

It is unfortunate that the United Nations, founded in the aftermath of World War II, is not helping to improve the world as much as it has the potential to. After 75 years in operation it needs a shake up and some reforms.

With ongoing wars, pandemics and climate change, the need to reform and strengthen the United Nations is necessary.

Members of seventeen leading global think tanks reflect on what reform or initiative is the most important for the United Nations as it looks toward its next seventy-five years. Read more…

EMPOWERING STUDENTS TO IMPROVE THE WORLD

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Category : Schools , Students

If we are going to be able to improve the world, our best hope are fresh minds. Students! Fernando Reimers in his book Empowering Students to Improve the World in Sixty Lessons shows us how.

Per amazon.com, “this book offers three tools to assist student, teachers and school leaders in educating global citizens. The first is a protocol to design and adapt global citizenship curriculum. The second is a protocol to design a school wide strategy for global education. The third is an actual curriculum prototype, a sixty lesson global citizenship curriculum, developed following the process presented in the book.”

HOW WE CAN MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE BY 2030

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Category : General , Planning

by Michael Green

Can we end hunger and poverty, halt climate change and achieve gender equality in the next 15 years? The governments of the world think we can. Meeting at the UN in September 2015, they agreed to a new set of Global Goals for the development of the world to 2030. Social progress expert Michael Green invites us to imagine how these goals and their vision for a better world can be achieved. Watch the video below.

GANDHI’S TOP 10 FUNDAMENTALS FOR CHANGING THE WORLD

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Category : Leaders

by Henrik Edberg

Gandhi’s Top 10 Fundamentals for Changing the World

“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”

“The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problem.”

“If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.”

Mahatma Gandhi needs no long introduction. Everyone knows about the man who lead the Indian people to independence from British rule in 1947.

So let’s just move on to some of my favourite tips from Mahatma Gandhi.

USE DRONES TO CLEAR LAND MINES

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Category : Technology

Using drones we can rid the world of land mines. Watch the video below to see how this can be done. Then READ MORE and support the project.

5 IDEAS FOR DOUBLING THE WORLD’S FOOD SUPPLY

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Category : Food

by Becky Striepe

Barley crop being harvested in India. How can we increase our food supply as our arable land decreases?

In the next 40 years, the world population is expected to explode from 7 billion to more than 9 billion people [source: Negative Population Growth]. More people means more hungry bellies, and if we’re going to feed the growing world population, we need to increase the world’s food supply.

3 SUBJECTS SCHOOLS SHOULD TEACH TO IMPROVE THE WORLD

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Category : Children , Schools

by Arjun Walia

MACLEANS-MEDITATION-05.23.14-TORONTO, ON: Grade 3 students at the Dewson Street Junior Public School attend a meditation class called "Area 33." The class is run by Phys-Ed teacher Mary-Ann Kowal in an effort to promote relaxation and self reflection in a world where children are often over-managed and being told what to do on a constant basis. Photograph by Cole Garside

One of the main issues with the education system is its lack of relevancy and real-world practicality. Children are rarely taught the kinds of skills which will most benefit them in their adult lives, and accordingly feel lost after they emerge from the education system, paper diploma in hand. It would be great to see schools begin to implement other subjects into the curriculum beyond those most commonly found in academia — subjects which help the child deal with and develop their inner selves rather than smother them with pharmaceuticals. Children have become a massive source of profit for the pharmaceutical industry, and we need to start addressing this issue at the root, treating the causes of children’s distress and not the effects. Below are three subjects which should be included in every curriculum.