Are you in a happy mood?  Take a look at this World Database of Happiness, a great scientific & inspirational directory for everything from a selection on valid measurement to a state happiness ranking.
Heard about Bhutan’s policy to measure ‘Gross National Happiness‘ instead of the traditional economic measure of GDP?
Or watch Goldfrapp’s ‘Happiness’, something you [...]

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Lovely concept, great design.
‘This is SCHOOL’  is a t-shirt that’s a counterpoint to all the negative sentiment the Beijing Olympics has been stirring up.  And it is also a reminder that the Olympics is all about UNITY, which the shirt shows by featuring every single competing nation in a yummy word track.
Read more at SCHOOL…

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The Monocle Global Quality of Life Index may one day graduate to adopt a scientific methodology that considers a larger spectrum of cities around the world, but I’m happy to settle for their current coverage and play the my-city-is-better-than-yours game, using the tidbits of quick facts they’ve compiled. For those who don’t buy [...]

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Beautiful! The Girl Effect. Thanks to Anothercompany.

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Adbusters invite everybody to create a flag – free from language and well-worn clichés – that embodies the idea of global citizenship. A symbol that triggers pride and cohesion, whether worn on a backpack, displayed on a door, or flown on a flagpole. A symbol for anyone to declare membership in a growing and [...]

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How do people make the Millennium Goals visible for themselves in a creative way? Donate Your Space is such an idea, where people can use ribbon or stickers to ‘donate a space’ for one of the Millennium Goals, be it fair world trade, or clean drinking water for everyone.
Go and take a look - or [...]

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Where are you going?
‘Do you treat life as a journey, with a destination or as a stroll, with no particular objective?
If you do see life as a journey - what is your destination, where are you going? ‘
Neill Crofts is founding father and the brain behind a  great new concept: Authentic Leadership & Authentic Transformation. [...]

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Here’s another great website which shows you the ‘virtual amount of water’ used to produce certain foods. Check it out.

Theory behind the concept of »virtual water content«
[excerpt from waterfootprint.org]
Virtual water content – The virtual-water content of a product (a commodity, good or service) is the volume of freshwater used to produce the product, measured at [...]

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Is faith permissible? Or is faith compulsory? How sacred is the line separating church and state today, long the unquestioned foundation of Western democracy? How firm is the theory of evolution? How conceivable is unbelief?
The press on earlier Noorderlicht Photofestivals
‘Fascinating, original, (..) with depth’ (NRC Handelsblad, The Netherlands)

‘Belief: indispensable for one, unthinkable for [...]

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“Europe’s twentysomethings have a lot in common. They all grew up with bombardments of advertisements, they have a vague remembrance of something called ‘the Wall’, they were watching ‘9/11’ live on TV, have already visited more countries than their parents and they cannot be separated from their mobile phone. [...]

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