THE GLOBAL IDEAS BANK www.globalideasbank.org Your Ideas Wanted for the Global Ideas Bank! A Global Ideas Bank for socially innovative non-technological ideas and projects, with £1,000 UK sterling awards annually for the best ideas or projects submitted Sister to another non-profit: www.DoBe.org, the website for participatory events in every city in the world. The Global Ideas Bank is a member of the New Civilization Network

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LATEST NEWS November 2001

See the unedited results of the World's Greatest Ideas Brainstorm held on International Social Innovations Day at Innovative ways to combat urban isolation

The Institute has a new book out in North America (but available to the whole world), and encyclopaedia of social inventions called 'The World's Greatest Ideas'. Check it out and buy a copy at the New Society website - it's our greatest hits in book form!

The Institute's 2001 compendium of ideas is out now, so why not buy a subscription to the Institute for Social Inventions for just 15 (17 overseas seamail) and get the new book, 'Cornucopia of Ideas'. New subscribers also receive '1,001 Health Tips' for FREE! Buy a subscription for yourself or as a present for a sparky friend here now!

The Institute's newest book, published in association with with Chatto & Windus, is SEIZE THE DAY, a Hardback Calendar of 'Tips for Living' from 366 extraordinary people. There is a page for each day with an inspiring tip and explanation from the likes of Tony Blair and Terry Waite, to Fay Weldon and Edward Goldsmith. "Question what you are taught"; "People are the size they make you feel"; "Never take a job you can do"; "Never trust anyone who likes neither cricket nor cats"; "Walk at the pace of a good conversation". 'Seize the Day' is a companion volume to the bestselling 'Poem for the Day', and both are edited by the late Nicholas Albery. All proceeds to charity, so buy a copy now , for only £13.99 incl. p&p.;

The Global Ideas Bank's sister website, www.DoBe.org is for events to involve YOU! You can put up a notice about any participatory real world event for any city in the world (although in this beta version only USA and UK cities and towns are included so far).

For the constantly updated APPRENTICEMASTER ALLIANCE directory, linking those who would like to be long-term apprentices, with master photographers, publishers, theatre producers, sculptors, etc, see the Directory of Masters.

For the London-based SATURDAY WALKER'S CLUB that each week does walks from the Time Out Book of Country Walks, see the website with train times, details and a bulletin board for last minute changes. If you ever come to London, come on one of these day outings (reached by train) - they are a wonderful way to see a bit of beautiful English countryside, get to know a few Londoners and to have a gourmet pub lunch and cream tea! Good company and anarchic conversation for all!

See the website for travellers to La GOMERA , the lovely and exotic island near Tenerife, where you can have a week's inexpensive walking holiday, walking round the island in a week, staying at a different pension each night.

The Australian Ideas Suggestion Box, started by Institute member Valerie Yule, and modelled on the Global Ideas Bank, already contains hundreds of ideas (mainly Valerie Yule's own ideas at this stage). All Australians should visit this site!

Wherever you are in the world, have your school organise a fund-raising Schools POETRY CHALLENGE.

Secure online ordering for the world's most socially innovative books: BOOK ORDERS. The Global Ideas Bank relies for its survival on donations and sales of publications.

FREE SOFTWARE to download! ZIP ART for Windows, allowing all ages to create intricate art work - this is a complete version; and LOGO for Windows, a fun way for children to learn geometry and programming - another FREE download and again the complete version.

SUBMIT your own ideas directly into the GIB database

Please e-mail rhino@dial.pipex.com with details of any UPDATES or BROKEN LINKS. It is a massive undertaking to keep this vast Global Ideas Bank up to date - the Global Ideas Bank is extremely grateful to those members of the public who take the time to report changes or problems. For broken links, please give the URL of the page you were on and the destination you were aiming for. For updates, please give the URL of the relevant page.

Categorized Sections. Start here!

Social Innovations - Past and Present (3 ideas) Children and Education (183 ideas)

top: Experienced mothers befriending new mothers (rated 93% by 68 people) Relationships (136 ideas)

top: Appreciation lists enhance self-esteem (rated 94% by 598 people) Housing (44 ideas)

top: List-Serv for salvagable fittings in buildings to be demolished (rated 93% by 46 people) New Money Systems & Financial Innovations (20 ideas)

top: Green Dollar LETSystem (rated 89% by 143 people) Taxation (36 ideas)

top: Holland has made green investments tax-free (rated 86% by 95 people) Work & Unemployment (71 ideas)

top: Allotments for the unemployed (rated 93% by 154 people) Economics and Business (98 ideas)

top: Debt redemption allows the very poor to benefit from credit (rated 93% by 48 people) Welfare (77 ideas)

top: Slow audiobooks for stroke victims (rated 93% by 76 people) Crime & The Law (107 ideas)

top: Prisoners training dogs for the disabled (rated 93% by 315 people) Health & Therapy (179 ideas)

top: The 'Wellness' show (rated 96% by 1943 people) Neighbourhood (94 ideas)

top: Brazilian city where neighbourhood groups allocate budget (rated 97% by 48 people) Environment and Ecology (307 ideas)

top: Protect 19.2 sq ft of rainforest per day by clicking on ads (rated 97% by 28 people) Quality of Life (28 ideas)

top: Eccentrics are healthier (rated 90% by 384 people) Science, Technology and Energy (117 ideas)

top: A Royal Academy of Inventors (rated 93% by 317 people) Transport (121 ideas)

top: Smart urban transport website (rated 95% by 32 people) Communications (166 ideas)

top: Coercion is no way to train horses or humans (rated 93% by 223 people) Arts, Leisure & Lifestyle (97 ideas)

top: Slow food - worldwide movement to protect the two hour lunch (rated 93% by 211 people) International and Developing World (113 ideas)

top: Curitiba and its visionary mayor (rated 95% by 713 people) War & Peace (32 ideas)

top: Transform the Korean demilitarized zone into a wildlife sanctuary (rated 91% by 11 people) Politics (74 ideas)

top: Stakeholder Councils as ombudsmen and advisers to ministers (rated 90% by 13 people) Spirituality (57 ideas)

top: The meaning of 'Namaste' (rated 91% by 602 people) Old Age (62 ideas)

top: The Pet Fostering Service Scotland (rated 95% by 86 people) Death and Dying (66 ideas) Promoting Social Inventions (79 ideas)

top: Institute Fellows (rated 93% by 6 people)

Recently submitted unedited ideas (298)

top: Brazilian city where neighbourhood groups allocate budget (rated 97% by 48 people)



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Ratings

As of 11/14/2001, 119828 people have produced 185786 ratings of 2762 ideas.

The 20 most highly rated ideas:



These are currently the most highly rated ideas, however few the voters (the right hand column is the number of people who have voted). These are likely to include some of the more recent ideas added to the Global Ideas Bank:

Title Rating # People Brazilian city where neighbourhood groups allocate budget 97% 48 Protect 19.2 sq ft of rainforest per day by clicking on ads 97% 28 The 'Wellness' show 96% 1943 How to be an ideal patient 96% 1087 The Pet Fostering Service Scotland 95% 86 Giving gardens to the needy 95% 151 DanceSafe - educating ravers in New England about drugs etc. 95% 9 Songs as a way of reaching a patient with Alzheimer's 95% 64 Smart urban transport website 95% 32 Sustrans' 5,000 miles of cycle paths 95% 855 The Natural Step - A National Plan for sustainability 95% 310 Curitiba and its visionary mayor 95% 713 Barcode identification of luggage at airports 95% 2 Appreciation lists enhance self-esteem 94% 598 Personal logbooks for patients 94% 43 Visits to the elderly from P.A.T. Dogs 94% 374 Plants, animals & children in nursing homes 94% 277 Musical midwifery for the dying 94% 440 Repairing coral reef systems with eco-friendly concrete balls 94% 7 Community-Supported Agriculture 94% 268

The 10 ideas most recently voted on:



Title Rating # People Teach Sign Language in schools 92% 529 Bedsits for arguing couples 76% 152 Target in urinal reduces spillage 83% 172 One word at a time, 1,600 words per minute 78% 50 Porn as first sign of a media breakthrough 78% 39 A code to protect guests on TV shows 52% 4 Dolphin 'therapy' for a dying child 93% 503 Abortion ceremonies 28% 211 Brian Eno's pragmatic possibilities 80% 38 Doing away with ring road brought about urban regeneration 94% 50

The 5 top recent idea proposers:



Proposer Ideas Stephen Russell 19 Aaron Campbell 13 Dr. KRS Murthy 10 Dennis Wright 3 Ben Malone 2

Other ratings and statistics

Published Books On-Line

The Book of Inspirations - A Directory of Social Inventions

Social Dreams & Technological Nightmares

World's Best Ideas - A Global Ideas Bank Compendium

Creative Speculations

DIY Futures

Best Ideas - A Compendium of Social Innovations

Reinventing Society

Social Innovations - a Compendium

Social Inventions Journal

Book of Visions

Poem for the Day (a short poem, old or new, worth learning by heart)

Ways to Go - Naturally

Last Aid Manual

Natural Death & Woodland Burial

Sooner or Later

Creative Endings

Before and After

Natural Death Handbook