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Avaaz: Giving to the monks is a smart, fast way to get aid directly to Burma’s people

Ilari Valbonesi @ May 9, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Dear friends,
Burma has been devastated by a cyclone—and by the military junta’s failure to help its people cope. Help raise relief funds for distribution by Burma’s monks.
In the wake of a massive cyclone, tens of thousands of Burmese are dead. More than 40,000 are missing. A million are homeless.But what’s happening in
Burma is not just […]

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RECORD STORE DAY (Record stores can’t save your life. But they can give you a better one)

Ilari Valbonesi @ April 18, 2008 # No Comment Yet

RECORD STORE DAY (Record stores can’t save your life. But they can give you a better one)
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World Water Day 2008

Ilari Valbonesi @ March 21, 2008 # No Comment Yet

This year, World Water Day coincides with the International Year of Sanitation, challenging us to spur action on a crisis affecting more than one out of three people on the planet.
Every 20 seconds, a child dies as a result of the abysmal sanitation conditions endured by some 2.6 billion people globally. That adds up […]

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Derek Jarman Exhibition by Isaac Julien. Performance For Blue by Simon Fisher Turner at Serpentine

Ilari Valbonesi @ March 12, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Curated by the celebrated artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien, the Derek Jarman exhibition presents a selection of work by the leading British film-maker of his generation; it highlights Jarman’s work in film and painting, including his pioneering presentation of the moving image within the gallery context.
Jarman was arguably the single most crucial figure […]

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FARM-Africa. Christmas (Living and Growing) Presents

Ilari Valbonesi @ December 16, 2007 # No Comment Yet

In Africa’s rural areas, many poor families rely on their land to survive. But with such barren earth to farm and unreliable rains, they struggle to harvest enough food to stay healthy.
Through a FARM-Africa goat project, you can transform life for a poor community providing poor families with goats and training in how to care […]

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RED Art Auction on Saint Valentine’s Day

Ilari Valbonesi @ December 14, 2007 # No Comment Yet

British artist Damien Hirst and Irish musician Bono U2 will host a Project RED auction of contemporary art donated by several artists such as Anish Kapoor, Matthew Barney, Georg Baselitz, Jeff Koons, Jasper Johns, Douglas Gordon, Andreas Gursky, Antony Gormley and Marc Quinn.
The Red Auction is expected to raise more than $40 million to support […]

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One Laptop per Child (OLPC)

Ilari Valbonesi @ October 29, 2007 # No Comment Yet

The XO is a potent learning tool created expressly for the world’s poorest children, living in its most remote environments. The laptop was designed collaboratively by experts from both academia and industry. The result is a unique harmony of form and function; a flexible, ultra-low-cost, power-efficient, responsive, and durable machine with which nations of the […]

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Hey You! Live Earth Global Audience

Ilari Valbonesi @ June 25, 2007 # No Comment Yet

SOS is the ongoing messaging campaign to empower individuals to combat the climate crisis and larger political movement behind Live Earth .
The SOS campaign’s identity and language is based on the international Morse code distress call: three dots, followed by three dashes, followed by three dots.

The SOS campaign is using a powerful multimedia platform - […]

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