Tag: climate
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Donations for disruption
Want to do your bit for the climate? Donating to activists may offer more bang for your buck than buying carbon offsets. That’s the conclusion of research group Giving Green: even their conservative estimates suggest advocacy organisations are “much more cost-effective than even best offsets”, they say.
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Power in the picture
Way back in 2007, the Irish Association of Non-Governmental Development Organisations (Dochas), created a code of conduct on images and messages. It was a reaction to the somehow accepted situation of fundraisers relying on what you might call “flies in their eyes” photography. You don’t need to see an example here; if you live in…
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The gift of rest
The more you do, the more difference you can make. Or so it seems, in a world that prizes productivity. How could it not be true, when every conference, every campaign, every keynote speaker tells us we must take action, urgently? It’s counter-intuitive, then, to do less in an effort to make the world a…
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Speaking up
The first speaker’s voice barely carries above the hum of the crowd. Even with a microphone, it takes a while for the 200 or so people gathered to notice she’s addressing them. When she’s done, others climb onto the fountain steps alone or in pairs, reading aloud from notes on their phones. Not understanding the…
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