The impact of visuals on our minds is deep and thought provoking. We all watch commercials and films for entertainment but rarely notice the power of using the same medium for spreading social awareness. Global Rickshaw is an outstanding initiative for a noble cause of bringing out the plight of ignorant masses living in extreme poverty, cultural differences, illiteracy and several other issues which touch upon our lives and still continue to plague the society.
The production house designs and directs entertaining commercials, short-films, and music videos to encourage awareness about important social issues. They want to arouse our conscience and stimulate us to move out of the comfort zone and pro-actively contribute in bringing about changes which we only keep talking about. The “short films for awareness” are the visual products which the founders wish to broadcast along with mainstream cinema and even on TV channels to garner increased viewership.
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We all need to change and adapt ourselves to the changing demands of human life from time to time. Children’s basic primary education and the way its imparted to them at schools is matter of great concern now-a-days. Lets get rid of the traditional and boring blackboard-copy-pen method to impart the basic Math And English skills that has been drowning of all the fun from our kids’ childhood since ages, lets give way to BrainNook – the world’s first age-appropriate, educational, virtual world for children.
This on-line tool makes practice fun through enjoyable, syllabus-based games based on Mathematics and English Grammar, embedded within colorful virtual worlds.
The games are appropriate to each child’s age, offer diverse gameplay, and are based on topics in Mathematics and English Grammar. Children take on the role of an alien exploring the Earth and collecting stars in order to repair his spaceship. Children earn stars by traveling through virtual worlds and playing games. The worlds are based on different regions of the globe, increasing children’s curiosity about our planet and engrossing them in the story.
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Imagine when one billion minds compete to solve a problem, it would undoubtedly lead to some phenomenal, incredible and path-breaking solutions. Still wondering what we are talking about? This is the crux of our useful website OneBillionMinds which has already created quite a stir in India with its unique and powerful idea. Most of the startups focus on technical innovation while this website has beautifully conceptualized Social Innovation guided by a strong desire to give back to the society.
OneBillionMinds aims at connecting Corporations and Non Profit Organizations to the talented and energetic students and alumni of top universities. The Corporations and non-profits post challenges in varied fields like Design, Engineering, Business, Science, Computer Science and Social Innovation for the students who battle it out with their winning solutions. Most of the problems are real-life issues based and give students an amazing opportunity to get exposed to the global professional world. The winners get instant recognition in the form of awards, interview opportunities for exciting full time and internship positions and even cash prizes!
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Now, it was an inevitable conclusion that a legally binding climate change mitigation agreement was a non-starter even before the Copenhagen climate summit began. And that is what came out on the last day of the conference, leaving the much harder task of a legally binding treaty to Mexico in November.
But that’s the problem challenging the nations at a international level. It was not right on their part, agreed, but what now? I have one question for every literate person out there- what are we as an individual doing to prevent global warming and thus controlling climate change? Don’t we have any responsibility towards our planet Earth?
We all can do our little bit to keep the earth Green. We can conserve and save energy(electricity, gas, water) used at our homes, workplace, etc with the help of Earth Aid. Earth Aid has developed a free service that measures your monthly energy use and rewards you based on how much you save.
It follows 3 simple steps :
- They will review your household’s energy use from your utility company will create a “baseline” using the details.
- Earth Aid then provides you with customized advice to become more energy-efficient, and then measures your next year of energy use.
- Last (and most importantly), Earth Aid empowers you to earn rewards based on the amount of energy you have conserved.
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EduOrigin is a new startup which endeavors at making the traditional, drab and burdensome learning process a complete joyride. This website is a common platform for all the teachers, students, counselors and professionals to come together and to get pro-actively involved in innovative learning. It’s a refreshing change from the other educational websites which are a complete overdose of random information.
The website encourages the readers to come forward, participate and make things happen. It has several forums where the learners can contribute and in this process learn to voice their opinions, share concerns and help their peers by giving valuable suggestions. This educational venture is a medium for all the stakeholders of education to showcase their talent in diverse fields such as painting, photography, music etc.
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A quote can add the much needed punch in an otherwise dull writing and keep the readers or listeners hooked. It’s a common observation that people pay extra attention to the words of wise and intellectual men. However, finding just the right quote which perfectly fits the occasion and need is a tough task. After hours of mindless browsing also, we fail to find that “one-perfect” quote which can help in emphasizing the point.
AtoZQuotes is a website which will take care of all your needs for quotes, sayings and aphorisms. It’s an archive of quotations with more than 150,000 quotes of more than 25000 authors. Overwhelmed by the huge database? The excellent quotes’ search engine takes care of that quite well as you can browse the collection alphabetically as well as thematically. If you have a favorite author or a particular topic in mind, then the search process is a complete cakewalk. Just type the name of your chosen author or topic and one click of mouse will present before you all the quotes.
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