3things is a movement for global goodness. We believe if each of us take small positive steps, together we can make some big changes.
So whether you've got 3 minutes, 3 weeks or more, you can do 3things to change the world...
An initiative of Oxfam Australia.
Food is an inseperable part of our lives. But it also provides a really clear picture of some of the big problems in the world, namely why some people get a lot more stuff than others. Join with Oxfam and 3thing to learn more.
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The Olympic Committee take cheating pretty seriously, well except when it’s from its sponsors. We've been making some noise about the cheating ways of major sporting wear companies at universities and busy peak hour walkways around the country.
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3things has been out on the road, travelling this sun baked land for stories of people that are getting up to sustainable, local and just plain inspiring things with a global impact. So without further ado meet the Youth Food Movement, a gang of sustainable riff raff hell bent on changing Australia's approach to food. In world where 1 in 7 people go to bed hungry and 2 out of 3 Australians go to bed over-full we really need the YFM.
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Use twitter? Think it should probably be harder to trade guns than bananas? Think a stronger treaty on the global trade of arms is a good idea? In just over two weeks the worlds governments begin negotiating an international Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) to prevent arms transfers to human rights abusers and repressive governments. This week you can send a strong message to the world’s biggest weapons-supplying countries, the United States and Russia, that governments that supply arms for atrocities are responsible too.
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The 20th anniversary of Australia's Mandatory Detetion Policy just crawled by on the 6th of May. We've been locking kids up for a long time. Armed with a phone or a camera, a few friends and some creativity you can be part of the campaign to stop putting kids in the clink.
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The Kony campaign has been bigger than Bieber... here we look at some of the more complex issues behind the topic on everyone's lips, and shows us some conversations that have been helpful in understanding the hype and the controversy, from partnerships with the Ugandan government to the use of celebrity.
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By most accounts it seems that the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa, has drawn to close, not with a bang but a whisper. Negotiators managed to agree to agree later, in 2015 in fact, on a new climate treaty which won’t be rolled out until 2020.
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James is the new kid on the the 3things block, and will be posting and writing here regularly. To get the ball rolling he talks about 3 things he's been thinking about this week to change the world, has a little trip down memory lane and explains why he lives without a tele (shock, horror!)
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