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Adital Ela, founder of S-Sense Design sustainability design studio in Israel believes in listening. She listens to indigenous philosophy, and incorporates it into sustainable design. When helping a community, she first listens closely to their needs and working from that foundation she bridges different worlds, finding both beautiful and sustainable solutions.
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John Hunter puts all the problems of the world on a 4’x5′ plywood board and lets his 4th-graders solve them. He explains how his World Peace Game engages school kids, and why the complex lessons it teaches spontaneous, and always surprising go further than classroom lectures can.
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The strongest commitment a Government can make to protect the Human Rights of its citizens is to embed them in a constitution, and create statutory procedures to enforce the international standards. New Zealand has a good record of approving of and compliance with its international obligations.
“They believe for a day when everyone in the world can take a safe drink of water. It’s easy to take for granted ready access to a safe supply of drinking water. Yet nearly one billion people lack this most basic resource. They believe that creating accessible, safe water supplies in developing countries frees people […]
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In New Zealand, Human Rights have never been protected by a single constitutional document nor any serious piece of legislation. Instead, we’ve had a raft of dissimilar laws, policies and programmes providing only elements of protection. It’s not good enough!
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