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Spring 2011 Edition - Sample Stories
Bien means "good" and BIEN stands for Basic Income Earth Network. BIEN started in Europe in 1986. At that time the E in BIEN stood for "European" but the network quickly grew to include international groups in support of the ideaso the E was made to stand for "Earth".
Believers in a Basic Income say that social policy and economic policy can no longer be conceived separately, and Basic Income is the only viable way of reconciling two central objectives: poverty relief and full employment. It may sound like an impossible dream, but a Basic Income would mean income unconditionally granted to all on an individual basis.
Dylan Stock was in first grade when the Gulf oil spill began last spring.
His class at The Principia School in St. Louis studied the spill's effect on birds. Dylan moved by the news wanted to do something. So he went to a hair salon to gather human hair to be used on booms to capture the spreading oil in the Gulf of Mexico.
The six-yr-old was just getting going. With help from his mother, Carrie Silver-Stock, he created a website, onestartsmany.com.
Australia and New Zealand have topped the World Giving Index - the first report of its kind looking at charitable behavior across the world. The index indicates that happier people are more likely to give money to charity than those who are wealthy.
The report states: The level of giving in a country indicates something about the strength of civil society the extent to which individuals are willing and able to contribute towards addressing the needs of others both in their own localities and across borders.
ST. LOUIS, MO "If people think I'mcrazy, I don't care." Arms spread wide, feet tapping and hips swaying, Erica "Happy Lady" McElrath of St. Louis greets daily commuters on the street corner while rocking to the beat of her headphones.
Her only payback comes in the form of big smiles and honking car horns. "I don't want money," said Erica. "I come out here to make people smile."
Separated from West Africa by 400 miles of ocean, with hardly any arable land, few natural resources, little fresh water and recurrent cycles of drought, the ten-island Republic of Cape Verde is not a likely African success story. Yet, despite its challenges, good governance has transformed the country into one of Africa’s thriving nations. A stable political climate, secure economic policies and efficient management of aid has kept Cape Verde on course to meet most of its Millennium Development Goal targets – particularly those surrounding poverty, health, education and gender parity.
For many of us, sex education consisted of halftruths whispered in the school cafeteria or movies in health class that suggested abstinence and heterosexuality were our only options. In 2009 Tani Ikeda, a new film program graduate of the University of Southern California (USC) , posed the question What would happen if young women took sexual health education into their own hands? The answer was ImMEDIAte Justice, a summer program that Ikeda, along with cofounders Sylvia Raskin and Laney Rupp, created for young women in Los Angeles that teaches media literacy and sexual health through filmmaking.
What's good for you, good for your wallet, good for the community, and good for the planet? Its Ithaca Carshare! And it's so good, it's spreading.
Ithaca Carshare recently reached 1,000 members, a new milestone for this program. Members share 13 cars. Each member has access to a clean, new car any time of the day or night. The organization pays for gas, upkeep, parking and insurance. While the average car owner pays between $400 and $600 per month, the most active carshare member pays less than $100.
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