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[alyssamilanofan]

you could also buy a car which doesn't use so much gas Or car pooling...

[waed89]

alyssamilanfan said:

you could also buy a car which doesn't use so much gas Or car pooling...

Well,, yea I can do that ;D but after today I might stick to public transportation! I won't be causing deaths and casualties to ppl because um so vague and can't focus!!!

[darkme]

see that's what I said, USE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION!! I think what happened today might have been a sign....

[AK]

One solution for health could be to encourage people to donate blood. Statistics say that at least 1 in every 3 persons need donated blood in their lifetime and that every 2 seconds someone needs blood. And blood banks are mostly short of blood. A single blood donation can save upto 3 lives. So it would be great if more people considered donating their blood.

We should learn more about blood donation and also raise awareness about donating blood. The body will make more blood and the person will be able to donate more blood after 56 days. I know a person who's made blood donation, a regular part of her life and donates blood every 56 days!Therefore, persons who're healthy and medically fit enough to donate blood, should consider donating their blood (at least once, if not every 56 days!). Think of the lives that could be saved...

[ViCtoria*]

Yes, donating blood is a really great idea that could save many lives. Except for people afraid of needles, like me . But indeed, many people will be benefited. And that person you know is doing a great deed to society, Anu! I like the idea, here's a karma for you!

[AK]

lapikiorejuda said:

Yes, donating blood is a really great idea that could save many lives. Except for people afraid of needles, like me . But indeed, many people will be benefited. And that person you know is doing a great deed to society, Anu! I like the idea, here's a karma for you!

Thanks for the karma Vic! That person's effort is definitely praiseworthy. Yeah, I'm kind of afraid of needles too. But we can do our bit to educate and encourage people in this regard to gather willing donors. That will surely have an impact.

[AK]

Here's a simple and a really cool solution I stumbled upon today!The idea is to save paper, save trees and save money by just - changing the margins!

See, on most word processing programs margins are set to 1.25 inches for frankly no good reason. It's completely arbitrary and a waste of paper. So this innovative and simple website - www.changethemargins.com/
- suggests that we should set our margins as wide as possible when printing.
Wider margin settings = more text/page = less paper used = lesser money spent.

Consider this fact - Penn State University research showed that the University could save 72 acres of forest and over $120,000/year by reducing the default margin settings across the campus.

So what we can do is change the default settings of our word processors and set each margin to .75". This will leave enough room for staples, hole punches etc. and save an immense amount of paper as well.

Here are simple ways to dramatically reduce paper consumption:
From - To
12 point font - 10 point font
1.25” margins - .75” margins
double spaced - single spaced
one sided - double sided
100 page document - 15 page document

Also, use recycled paper as much as possible, because switching to recycled paper reduces energy consumption by 60%. Also, using one ton of recycled paper instead of virgin paper equals sixty pounds (or 95%) less air pollution, seventeen more trees, 7,000 more gallons of water, and 3.3 more cubic yards of landfill space available. (Conserveatree)

Change margins, use email, use both sides of paper, use recycled paper, reduce font size, choose single space or 1.5 space instead of double spacing (unless especially indicated) and reuse paper as much as possible. And there you've played a big role in conserving trees, forests, saving water (paper is among top 5 water-consuming industries), conserving energy & land and of course, saving money in the run!

Lastly, here's a fact - Americans throw away enough office and writing paper each year to build a wall twelve-feet high stretching from New York City to Los Angeles!

[harisstavr]

hmm... nice topic...
My suggestions:

1) Global Warming: -A special global sonstitution about reducing the CO2 in the atmosphere. All developed countries should sign this constitution. If they didn't reduce rates of carbon dioxide then they should pay huge amounts of money. Sth they wouldn't like at all!!
- Use of Public Transports
- Governments should give money to those who use environmental friendly cars or want to buy one
2) Poverty: -Increasing the amount of money given to organizations such us UNICEF or ActionAid could help reducing poverty worldwide.
3) Racism: -Governments should give the chance to immigrants play an important role in the society, to educate them properly.
4) Aids: - Inform youths about it, -Special free tel.lines in each country that inform and answer questions to youths about that problem. -funding more researches about a medicine that can stop AIDS and the spread of HIV.

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[darkme]

I was just viewing Paulo Coelho's blog, and every day there's a new question asked and he answers it. I loved the answer he gave today, it's really gr8! I think you should chk it out:
"You are known as a writer with great influence on public. If you were the one who direct humanitarian activities, to which sphere of activity you would orientate humanitarianism? Sting is trying to rescue the tropical rain forest, Bono lectures to leaders of the strongest states, Sharon Stone collect financial resources for humanitarian purposes, Gilberto Gil is a Minister of Culture. Have you ever thought or wished to politicaly engaged?

Paulo Coelho : I think that it is everyone’s responsibility to be involved in one’s community. I’ve always been very skeptical about people that say: “I want to save the world, help others…” This is because to save the “world” is a Sisyphus project – too abstract to actually be put into practice. What is possible – and the most difficult task – is to first look at oneself and try to identify what’s wrong. Before searching for the other, one has to find oneself. I took forty years to find myself – to accept my dream: to become a writer. Only when I started to walk down the path of my personal legend was I able to honestly turn myself towards others: before that there were too many walls inside my soul. I looked around me and said: “I can’t change the world, I can’t change my country, I can’t change my city, I can’t even change my neighborhood… what I can change is my street.” That’s when I went to a favela – in Rio favelas are in the center of the city – and met a group of people that were taking care of children. Since then I’ve been cooperating with them and now we take care of 430 children."

Link: www.paulocoelhoblog.com

[travisboddie]

We can make a change and I do agree that we have the ability to do that. In order to make a change or anything else we must first remember that Rome was not build in a day. Therefore, Change within our societies will not be changed but if we come together. Martin Luther King once said that "Don't take my pictures. But take the pictures of the people that are marching with me" Why because it is there invisible faces that no one know that will makes the cause stronger. Why? People like Martin Luther King or Rosa Parks would not have been possible with out the support we see.