Body of Health in the Big One

Problem: El Grupo de Mujeres de Alto das Pombas, en 1998 elaboró el proyecto Mujeres Tejiendo Sueños durante una reunión de la Asamblea del grupo, enfocando la sustentabilidad (sostenibilidad) del mismo. El proyecto fue encaminado a la alcaldía para solicitar la maquinaria necesaria. En la ocasión la Alcaldía tenía un proyecto de convenio con proyectos comunitarios. Después de recibir la máquinas, el paso siguiente fue capacitar a las personas en el área de corte y costura y así entonces, 50 personas ...

Action: Generar renta enfocando la sustentabilidad (sostenibilidad) del grupo de mujeres del Alto das Pombas y de los instructores de los cursos ofrecidos por la organización.   Servicios Ofrecidos: Taller de Corte y Costura Concientización de su ciudadanía, para mujeres

Problem: “Nova Pesquisa” Asesoramiento en Educación, Ong con sede propia en el barrio Flamengo, en Río de Janeiro, que en aquella época desarrollaba un proyecto direccionado para la población de las calles, detectó que la mayoría de esas personas vivían de la recogida (colecta) de materiales reciclables. A través de invitaciones a esas personas para que participaran de reuniones, realizadas por “Nova Pesquisa”, se desarrollo inicialmente la mobilización de los recogedores. Durante esas reuniones se pu...

Action: Organizar a los recogedores (as) en Grupos, Asociaciones y Cooperativas.   Servicios Ofrecidos: Capacitación en conocimiento de materiales reciclables; capacitación en técnicas de colecta; cursos de alfabetización; formación en el área de medio ambiente.

Problem: This project arose from experience covering sustainable human development, governance, management and training during my career in the Australian Army, government, business and the civil society. This includes long and short-term planning; systems analysis and design; setting up and managing the Financial and Economic Policy Division of the Papua New Guinea Treasury; advising on the policies, programs and projects of the World Bank in Washington DC; developing social, financial and investment...

Action: Improve the well-being of people and their environments.   Services Offered: Aim:- Improve the well-being of people and their environments through low-cost diffusion, refinement and implementation of the Integrative Improvement (II) approach for achieving sustainable development. Strategy:- Establish an adaptive networked Integrative Federation (IF) of largely virtual Integrative Improvement Institutes (IIIs) in a number of countries using the training modules and templates and their compl...

Problem: This LOCALLY DRIVEN SOLUTION PROCESS is NON ISSUE SPECIFIC.   Target issues may include but  are not limited to POVERTY, CLIMATE CHANGE, PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUES, ENVIRONMENTAL SCARCITY/ DEVASTATION. Whether fighting AIDS in Zimbabwe, saving rain forests in Senegal, or building healthy, sustainable communities in the USA; "7 Stages to Sustainability" empowers local and global "Partners In Empowerment" (PIE) to address locally identified threats to human and environmental security ...

Action: 1. Identify and engage Partners In Empowerment™ (local and global): community members, collaborating organizations, socially conscious businesses & other stakeholders dedicated to improving human and environmental security.   * More specifically, "7 Stages to Sustainability" emphases six synergistic social and economic sectors:       Collaborating Nonprofits– Who: Comm...

Problem: Attaining --and maintaining-- financial stability is very difficult for grassroots civic groups/projects; more generally, the world faces a Democracy Deficit. Our world, increasingly globalized, hightech, fast-paced, accelerating, faces unprecedented challenges from Climate Destabilization to Peak Oil; yet the internet has been underutilized as a means for facilitating bottom-up, decentralized, yet coordinated actions. Both principle and pragmatism argue in favor of harnessing the fuller pote...

Action: Thresholdware is software which allows citizens to coordinate intentions and actions on a mass scale. It works by securely and privately storing individual commitments, and then putting the aggregate of those individual commitments into coordinated action when a specific critical mass or threshold has been reached. These can include financial transactions, such as fundraising commitments, or "action transactions'" such as strike votes, product boycotts, civil disobedience, provisionally joini...

Problem: March 21 International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination created in memory of the massacre of Sharpville in South Africa in 1960. This massacre occurred during a peaceful protest against the unjust laws (which restricted the movement of blacks). The protestors were harshly repressed by police with machine guns, leaving 69 people dead and hundreds wounded. This day became a symbol of the struggle against racial oppression all over the world.   For this reason, this day was ch...

Action:   Original objectives at project outset The movement seeks to educate religious communities, principally those with African roots, about their rights and responsibilities within society. They should enjoy the same respect as other religions.     Services offered:   - Documenting cases of religious intolerance and helping arrange legal support. - Popular education about religious intolerance.   Project Details Staff:  none ...

Problem: Corporate/Special interests control the legislature of the USA. The convention clause of the US Constitution was written to prevent this. All fifty states have applied for the Article V Convention, the trick is to get this idea of coming together in a convention to a tipping-point majority of Americans. A popular documentary can do this. http://www.articlev.org  

Action: We have the green light from UCSB, we have three parliamentarians to administer Robert's Rules of Order to the deliberative assembly, and we have a long list of college students ready to participate.

Problem: Government is the organizing instrument of society and to make sure that it is acting in the best interests of its citizens, it is managed and controlled by representatives of the citizens who are directly accountable for their performance to the citizens: Representative Government.How to create and structure such a representative government hasn't totally eluded people to date but it could do with some improving.Many of the existing structures carry burdens of historical trappings, most ofte...

Action: Small groups in every constituency, in every nation, must organize now around a standard, new, simple platform and present themselves for election on that platform at every opportunity.The consistent platform will enable and speed the education of the citizenry of all nations, regions and communities. Those who do not wish to stand for office can be powerful in demanding that anyone they vote for adopt the Standards of LIFE as part of their own agenda and commit to promoting them in any way t...

Problem: This solution tackles the question of legal juristiction in a multi-layered, community based social structure. How can you establish human rights on a global level while allowing individual communities to determine their own laws for food standards or noise levels?

Action: Within the structure of multi-layer democracy (http://www.standardsoflife.com/representation) there needs to be a way of handling the differences between different consitituencies within a layer and between layers. Variable Law is a legal construct that is best included in a constitution (http://www.standardsoflife.com/constitutional+Template) and provides ...

Problem: Creating an integrated taxation and social security system that guides the invisible hand of the market to help everyone.

Action: A fair system for setting tax rates using the average earnings of the population and by linking the use of tax revenues to the cost of providing the basic services that underpin society.   In order to form a more perfect tax system that represents these principles and is readily adopted and embraced, LIFE proposes an income tax structure that is based on two clearly observable features of a society: the average income of a citizen and the cost of providing those services that are deemed to be...