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Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Adbusters is a not-for-profit, reader-supported, 120,000-circulation magazine concerned about the erosion of our physical and cultural environments by commercial forces. Our work has been embraced by organizations like Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace, has been featured in hundreds of alternative and mainstream newspapers, magazines, and television and radio shows around the world.

Hathay Bunano

'Hathay Bunano p.s. is a non-profit organisation based in Bangladesh. We aim to create rural employment that is fairly paid, good quality, flexible and local. Employment opportunities for artisans that are within a 5-10 minute walk from their homes but at the same time provides a safe and compliant working environment. Employment that fits in with the artisans rural way of life rather than employment which dictates the rhythm of their lives.

Our strength for employment security is in the wonderful products that we create. Hathay Bunano p.s. specialise in hand knitting, hand crochet and hand embroidery and sell these products worldwide to mainstream retailers and distributors. We currently export about 30,000 products per month all over the world, to UK, USA, Australia, Europe and Scandinavia.'


'Since employment creation will ultimately lead to poverty eradication, and SMEs are likely to lead the field in rural employment creation maybe the donors could do worse than looking to partnerships with SMEs rather than NGOs to achieve the long sought-after aim of us all.'

A fresh look at poverty... Providing sustainable work locally to communities using small and medium entraprises and teaching them individual skills to create fairtrade high end products rather than National Global Organisations making huge factory outlets in urban settings.

All Together Now

“All Together Now” was created to communicate the basic Olympic values of respect, excellence and friendship. This proved challenging at times because some of these values tend to work against each other, like competition and friendship. That's where the idea of a gigantic tug of war came about. It appears these characters are fighting against each other; only later the viewer realizes they are coming together in a unified effort.

Lights out

Consider the recent "lights out" campaign that supposedly should energise the world about the problems of climate change by urging citizens in 27 big cities to turn out their lights for an hour. With scores of companies and municipalities signing up, and even the monarchies of Denmark and Sweden turning off the lights in their many palaces, the World Wildlife Fund quickly called it an amazing success.

Legal requirements to recycle in cinneticut

Connecticut State have a law that states it is illegal not to recyclee goods.

SightXchange

Twenty three year old Helena Kazi from Birmingham is a woman with a 20/20 vision. Fresh from completing a Master’s degree in Toxicology, she has wasted no time in setting up SightXchange, a unique, self sustaining social enterprise project which will provide eye care and employment in Bangladesh.

What sets Helena’s project apart is that it is not simply a charity, but a sustainable vehicle for social regeneration.

Jade Jagger launches eco-club

Jade Jagger flashed her green credentials by helping to launch the super environmentally friendly nightclub, Surya, at Kings Cross last night. Billed as the world’s first ecological club, the nightspot hopes to create a green-print for others to follow. Special features include a wind turbine and a unique dance floor - which when used by clubbers generates part of the club’s energy requirements.

Dave Erwin, an environmental studies professor at Portland State University, says that as energy prices soar, more people are concerned about how they affect the environment. People "are trying to turn an energy shortage into an asset," he says. "It's a fascinating concept."