Last week we talked about the book
Changer le monde en 2 heures
(
Change the world in 2 hours
, in Spanish) in the post Five projects (of proven solvency) to change the world in two hours.
The author, Pierre Chevelle, seeks to report on initiatives already underway to encourage citizens to commit to improving the world with small coordinated actions that are at their fingertips.
More information
100 positive ideas to change the world
Five proven projects to change the world in two hours
After the DiscoSopa comes the DiscoTapa
In this second post I present the following five projects proposed in the book and that remained in the inkwell:
1) Sparknews.
On their
homepage
they make everything very clear from the beginning: "To make a better world, let's start by changing the way we talk about it."
Its objective is to put positive initiatives in the media spotlight to accelerate the social and ecological transition that the world needs.
All of us, journalists and media readers alike, are called to give importance to what is important and relevance to what is relevant.
But are we all, journalists and readers alike, for the work?
We spoke a couple of times on this blog about his initiative
Impact Journalism Day
, an attempt to educate journalists about the impact of what we say on the world that we are building together.
All of us, journalists and media readers alike, are called to give importance to what is important and relevance to what is relevant.
2) Discosopa.
What to say about this international collaborative platform against food waste?
Participants organize solidarity events and festivals with the aim of reappropriating public space and food waste to raise awareness about the drama of the amount of food that, by active or passive, we all as a society end up throwing into the rubbish bin.
We talked about them on several occasions like in the post DiscoSopa against food waste.
This initiative seeks to recruit through its website cancer patients willing to make their case available to science to accelerate the investigation.
3) Seintinelles was born in 2013 in France as the first collaborative space at the service of cancer research. Everything was born from the encounter between a cancerologist and a cancer patient, an expert in marketing and communication. The one saw in the other the opportunity to fight cancer in a different way than the conventional one. It is about recruiting, through its website, cancer patients willing to make their case available to science to accelerate research and solutions against this disease that already affects one person in four in France. To date, more than 35,000 people have volunteered to enter the game, both patients and people in remission, as well as family members of the sick.
Each person spends an average of 80,000 hours at work throughout their life.
Why not put them at the service of the new world that is being announced?
4) Euphoria presents itself as a Geneva-based youth organization for youth.
One of the co-founders, Jerónimo Calderón, is Bolivian.
They have a crazy dream with their friend Yoko ?: to empower 10 million young people around the world so that each one of them becomes a local actor of change wherever they are.
At the moment the organization has members in more than 20 countries on three continents.
Ambition, in any case, they are not lacking.
You can participate in one of their trainings or even co-organize one at your own risk.
5) Ticket for Change presents itself as a “new generation” school for change actors. They accompany all those people willing to work, already in their own workplace, to bring about the social and ecological change that society needs, taking advantage of the talents of each one. According to Ticket for Change, 94% of the French want to contribute to solving the great collective challenges, but only 20% get involved. Each person spends an average of 80,000 hours at work throughout their life. Why not put them at the service of the new world that is being announced? To date, more than 100,000 people have been directly or indirectly impacted by its programs. Will you be the next?