Global Village News and Resources Issue 117 - December, 2006

Editorial
Building a Community of Like-minds
Could My Positive News be the Opportunity?

In the last issue of GVNR I wrote about the transition that Positive News and GVNR were going through. As part of this process Positive News and GVNR will share a platform, along with a new website we are creating called ‘My Positive News’

A few months ago, we started working with Virtual Schools. The idea being to take Positive News into schools and help young people create their own positive news newspapers. When I discovered the potential of the underlying technology that Richard Nichols of Virtual Schools was using to do this, we discussed ways in which we might be able to achieve similar results with Positive News.

One thing I would like to do, is to get feedback from people who we are not yet in touch with, but would like to be. People who are creating positive solutions within their own communities and their own lives. I also wanted to explore other ways in which to share stories, quickly and easily, with the rest of the world and be able to interact with every-one involved.

Many of the issues that Positive News writes about are now becoming part of the mainstream. This made me question if it was time for us to move forward and I considered what the next steps should be. The idea is to form a ‘virtual’ and like-minded community of friends who share the same sense of purpose in creating a positive future. This is the inspiration behind My Positive News.

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Changing the Dream
Nick Hart-Williams explains the social movement that is Changing the Dream

It was an incredible moment. I was attending a workshop in London on Fundraising from the Heart, something I figured I’d need to understand given the non-profit organisation I’d been running for two years. Heading the workshop was Lynne Twist, a good friend who had spoken at the first Be The Change conference in 2004. Like most people, I knew Lynne as the woman who had raised millions of dollars for the Hunger Project. In fact, she and her husband Bill had changed direction a few years back. They had both been summoned – initially through their dreams – to make contact with a remote tribe from the Ecuadorean Amazon, known as the Achuar, who had remained hidden from Western culture until mounting pressures urged them to seek help. They knew that oil companies were becoming a threat.

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Big Ask Gets Big Success

Following a ground breaking and hugely successful protest by Friends of the Earth (FOE) and its supporters, a climate change bill has been announced in this year’s Queens Speech. Launched in May of 2005 by musician Thom Yorke, the Big Ask campaign asked supporters to write to their local MP’s and urge them to back a climate change bill. Since the campaign was launched an estimated 100,000 people have written to and emailed their MP’s resulting in 412 (over two thirds of the UK’s MP’s) backing the proposed bill.

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The Carbon Cycle

The USA is often cast as the arch-villain of climate change with its disproportionate level of emissions – 5 per cent of the world’s population emitting 25 per cent of climate change gases – and its refusal to sign the Kyoto protocol. But what are the positive stories? This June Dr Kate Rawles set out from El Paso in Mexico, travelling by bicycle, to find out.

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Youth Stories:

• Shared Planet

• Helping young people spread the word

• Get a Surestart with Bookstart

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Rhythm of the World

The Arctic Monkeys, Sting and Jack Johnson are but a few of the artists to take action against climate change by contributing to the Rhythms Del Mundo (Rhythm of the world) project. Along with previously mentioned artist, U2, Maroon 5 and Faithless collaborated with the legendary Buena Vista Social club to record an album with the aim of raising awareness of climate change and supporting those who have fallen victim to its effects.

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Sally Garozzo-Essence of Solitude CD

Sally Garozzo
“I'm a real mixed bag”, writes singer-songwriter Sally Garozzo, explaining her bi-national parentage. My father is from Sicily and my mother from the sunny shores of Clacton on Sea in Essex; so I’m a mixed bag of fish n chips; one lonely cockle and a handful of sun dried tomatoes with chilli!"

This candid, fresh approach to self-description is full of personality, as is Sally’s music.

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A Bridge Between Worlds

"Bridge between Worlds" is the new CD, written and produced by cellist and music producer Emily Burridge. Featuring nine pieces scored for full orchestra, piano and solo cello, the music also contains Emily's own field recordings of the traditional chants and songs of the Xavante tribe of the Mato Grosso, Brazil.

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Letters to the Editor

My Positive News

Dear Friends:
I am writing to you as the United Nations have asked us to produce a youth summary of this year's fantastic UN Human Development Report which was released last week. It is on the theme of water. It is slightly URGENT!!! - because the UN want it out in English, French and Spanish by March 22nd: World Water Day. So we have to turn around the book more quickly than ever we have before - but, with your help, we are confident we can do it!  Click to continue...

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An Invitation to My Positive News:
Find Out More About My Positive News And Register To Be A Member or visit http://www.gvnr.com/117/10.htm

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