Metro ran a great article on Monday written by David Suzuki and Dr. Faisal Moola, “What would you do with $4 trillion?” with the subheading: Money handed out to failing companies could be put toward saving the planet. The article says that between the U.S. and 17 Western European countries, they’re giving $4.1 trillion to save financial institutions from the economic crisis.
Corporations are suffering but,
The effect on people in developing nations is even worse. Most of them didn’t have savings to begin with, and now the economic crisis, coupled with the effects of the climate crisis - including drought and food shortages - is causing more of our human family to suffer from extreme poverty and joblessness.
So Suzuki suggests that instead of funding companies to continue their business as usual, this money would be better spent in renewable energy sources, sustainable urban planning, and research into methods to reduce the impact of climate change. He thinks by investing into our future as a whole planet, we would in effect be stimulating the global economy.
Brilliant idea, Mr. Suzuki! This article ties into the auto industry bailout initiatives that both the Canadian and American governments are considering. In my mind, this is simply a band-aid solution. Thousands of jobs will be lost if the auto industry goes down, but is automobile production a sustainable industry? Especially considering that gas is a finite resource and automobiles are non-recyclable?
Wouldn’t corporate bailout money be better spent in creating new jobs that have a future? What about funding for the production of cars that use renewable energy, or in creating ways to reuse old automobile materials?
Just last week the Toronto City Council announced two big policies that will help all Torontonians Do Good for the environment. The first one, effective immediately, is to ban the sale and distribution of bottled water at City Hall and civic centres across the G.T.A. By 2011, this ban will transfer to other city-owned facilities.
The second environmentally-sound motion councillors voted on was a $0.05 fee on plastic bags. Starting June 1, 2009, retailers will be required to accept reusable bags and containers in lue of retailer-supplied bags. The final tally was 30 in favour of the bag and bottle measures, 13 against.
Mayor David Miller said “free” shopping bags come at a cost. “There’s a cost to the city and the people of Toronto in disposing of them, there’s a cost to the environment and there’s a cost to the retailers,” he said after the vote…
If you didn’t catch our President, Darius Bashar, on CFRB this past Sunday, you have a chance to hear him again this Saturday on The Ben Mercer Show! Darius will be there to share the Daily Challenge story with listeners and how Do Gooders around the world are uniting to Do One Good, Daily.
Catch Darius on the popular 1010 AM news talk show at 5pm this Saturday, December 6th.
And there’s MORE…
Flow 93.5 FM Producer to be Celebrity Challenger
Musiklee Inzane is DJ, Producer, Label Founder and Co-Founder of The Real Frequency, the first all Hip Hop show on Canada’s first commercial urban radio station, Flow 93.5 FM. He has graciously accepted our challenge to challenge you!
Check out Muskilee’s challenge on DailyChallenge.org next Thursday, December 11th. And if you’re looking to get your Hip Hop groove on, tune into The Real Frequency on Monday nights from 11PM to 1AM on Flow.
It’s release day and the team is stoked about the new features that have gone live today. It’s been a very busy and productive 11 days since our Beta 1.2 release so I hope you’re all enjoying the new release. In case you haven’t spotted all the new tidbits around the site, this post will give you an overview of exactly what we worked on as well as what’s to come. As always, we need your feedback to keep improving, so don’t be afraid to hit that big blue Comments link at the bottom of the post!
Our sincerest apologies, Do Gooders! This morning each of us opened our email boxes and were absolutely horrified to find this morning’s challenge email reminder was sent out FIVE times! Please believe us that this was unintentional.
What happened? Well, from our initial investigation it seems that our hosting company was doing server maintenance last night. For some reason, the process we use to send the daily emails out to you was multiplied… not once, twice, but five times! We regret this unfortunate incident and our Chief Architect, Luciano, is on the phone right now to make certain this does not happen again.
We hope this unpleasant circumstance has not tainted your experience with Daily Challenge and that you will continue to do your one good, daily, with us. Thank you for your support and understanding.
The world’s largest blog solely focused on social networks, Mashable.com, presents the 2nd annual Open Web Awards. And guess who’s been nominated!? Whoo Hoo!
The Open Web Awards is “the only multilingual international online voting competition that covers major innovations in web technology. Through an online nominating and voting process, the Open Web Awards recognizes and honors the top achievements in 26 categories. This year, we’re partnering with over 100 blog partners, Poll Daddy for extra security and ease of voting and extending the nominations period and voting rounds for greater participation.”
You can nominate your favourite website until this Sunday, November 16th 2008. The sites with the most nominations will make it to the second round and will be featured on Mashable’s homepage.
If you love Daily Challenge, please take 30 seconds to nominate us here:
Last week KillerStartups.com surprised us all by randomly finding Daily Challenge and posting a review of the site. We’re proud to announce that it was a positive appraisal, especially considering it was for our first, unsolicited review!
Here’s my favourite part:
“I realized that if you want to add a drop of loving kindness to the world, this site is exactly what you need. It doesn’t matter if it is just a tiny drop - sometimes, a little is more than enough.”
KillerStartups.com readers are encouraged to vote on their favourite sites (Daily Challenge has 24 votes so far). The website describes itself as, “a user driven internet startups community. Entrepreneurs, investors, and bloggers are staying informed on up-and-coming internet startups using our blog platform, where internet entrepreneurs submit their startup to see what others think about it.”
Why not visit KillerStartups.com and check out their review for yourself?
Google is giving away $2M each to 5 world-changing ideas in their Project 10 to the 100th contest. We think Daily Challenge has the potential to positively impact the world so it made sense to enter!
Here is our 30 second video submission
If it inspires you:
Pass it on to your friends!
Go to YouTube and comment on it (let’s get Google’s attention!)
Do Gooders, we welcome you to the Daily Challenge Blog. This blog is here to tell the Daily Challenge story and get you directly involved in the project so you become part of the story, too.
You’ll be able to provide your opinions on all our plans and everything we do. You’ll also get a chance to know the Daily Challenge team and see first-hand where the magic happens.
Here is some titillating information to look forward to in future blog posts:
How did Daily Challenge come to be?
Meet the Daily Challenge team
Why Daily Challenge?
Meet the Daily Challenge Band (This is a good one!)
What changes can we expect and when will we see them?
Who are these celebrity challengers and who can we expect to see?
All this and more! And we’ll do our best to make the story exciting and digestible through text, videos and images (not to mention some really killer Daily Challenge contests).
This is the official blog for Do Gooders. It is the vehicle for the Daily Challenge story and the tool to get you directly involved in the project so you can become part of the story, too.
Just last week the Toronto City Council announced two big policies that will help all Torontonians Do Good for the environment. The first one, effective immediately, is to ban the sale and distribution of bottled water at City Hall and civic centres across the G.T.A. By 2011, this ban will transfer to other city-owned facilities.
