Beer and TP (toilet paper): Ideas that change the lives of millions
Shebeen is a non-profit bar that sells beers from around the world and gives 100% of profits back to your drink's country of origin. Who Gives A Crap is a brand of toilet paper that helps provide people in developing countries with toilets and better sanitation. Simon Griffiths is the brains behind both these amazing ventures!
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Student asks PM: What 3things are you doing to change the world?
Students had the chance to grill Prime Minister Julia Gillard during last night's episode of Q&A. The special "High School Showdown" invited school kids to quiz the PM about the issues that matter to them most. Brianna Colgan, a year 12 student and avid 3things fan, decided to ask the PM what 3 things she's doing in her personal life to help change the world.
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One Million Women can’t be wrong: Love Food, Hate Waste
Did you know that in NSW we waste an average of 1 in every 5 shopping bags of food we buy? That is about 20% of our purchased food. Our garbage bins are predominantly filled with discarded food and the reality is that the overall wastage is far more than just the food in the bin but also a waste of everything that went into producing that food.
And did you know that in landfill, food waste produces methane, a greenhouse gas 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide?! I didn’t. At least not until I spoke with Macquarie University’s lovely resident Sustainability Officer Belinda Bean.
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Aiming high with Indigenous education
3things takes a look at the Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience (AIME). Mobilising scores of volunteer uni students (at last count, over 1000) to mentor Indigenous high school students, AIME’s program has proven to dramatically increase the chances of Indigenous children finishing school. The results have been outstanding - this year marks the fourth year running that AIME students have finished school at almost the same rate as every Australian child.
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Oxfam UNIte Conference: an arena for new ideas
Oxfam University group members from around Australia joined forces at a three day conference in Sydney last week.
Students came from as far as Perth and Brisbane to share their success stories from past events and to brainstorm ideas for campaigns and events in 2013. The university groups work alongside Oxfam Australia to achieve their vision of a just world without poverty.
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Dumpster diving: getting my hands dirty
The dumpster was a goldmine of baked goods: cheese and bacon rolls, apple scrolls, hot cross buns, and mini pizzas. We stocked up. The next day, I had the apple scroll for breakfast, with grilled plums (retrieved from the following bin) and a wedge of blue cheese.
The next bin gave us panini di casa (with an expiry date a week later), pita bread and fruit and vegetables – the plums, potatoes, cucumbers, and onions were plentiful. Lunch was panini, accompanied by the carrots from the first bin, which I'd roasted with thyme, honey, and balsamic vinegar.
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Design for Change has a new website!
Are you a creative type looking to use your skills for good and not just hilarious internet cat memes?
Oxfam's Design for Change is a new online space where creative minds can come together to forge innovative solutions to global problems.
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2015, the year for Fairtrade Uni's!
We dig ambitious, passionate causes. Every uni in Australia Fair Trade by 2015? Like!
Find out how you can help
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Volunteering, Cookbooks and Hot Potato
Students from the University of New South Wales are trying to get young people to think more consiously of their eating and cooking habits through an awesome cookbook free for all UNSW students. The cookbook shows how food and volunteers can help make a better food world with hard work and dedication to a cause. 3things resident intern and blogger, Lucy Murrie, tells us how she pulled it all together and how you can get similarly culinarily inspired.
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How not to become a Mad Man
Love what you do and want to love the world whilst you do it? Whether its advertising, design, accounting or driving a garbage truck, ladies and gentlemen we here have for you today some tips on how to use your life's work for good, rather than evil.
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