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Born of a desire to reduce India’s rubbish mountain, improve energy efficiency, and help some of Delhi’s poorest out of the city’s slums, Conserve India achieves all this by turning plastic bags into high fashion.

By buying a Conserve bag, belt, wallet, shoe, or necklace, you not only get to be a trend setter with a beautiful, funky piece of high fashion - you will also be helping some of India’s poorest people and its environment.

11:51 24th Jan 2012

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Reblogged from hiptipico

Tags: quote motivation inspiration journey

The real joy is in the journey, so give yourself the joy of making that journey. Pick yourself up, again and again, and keep going.

You know full well that you can do it, so do it. Remind yourself why you’ve chosen to get there, and keep going.

You are a bundle of beautiful and unique possibilities. Keep going, and bring the best of them to life.

— Ralph Marston (via lysscguatemala)

22:23 19th Sep 2011

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Reblogged from invest2innovate

Tags: Poverty Inspiration Kristof Economy kenya africa

There’s a tendency these days to give up on poverty, to dismiss it as a sad but inevitable feature of humanity, particularly at a time when we have deep economic problems of our own. But if a former prostitute in a Nairobi slum can build a dressmaking business, buy a home in the suburbs and produce over-achievers like Caroline, Anthony and Cynthia, then it’s worth remembering that sheer grit, and a helping hand, can sometimes blaze trails where none seem possible.

— Nick Kristof’s latest column, “Sewing Her Way Out of Poverty,” about a “prostitute-turned-businesswoman” who launched Jamii Bora, Kenya’s largest microfinance organization. (via invest2innovate)

12:38 10th Sep 2011

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Tags: travel bicycle japan world inspiration national geographic

Man bikes around world with $2 in pocket

When Keiichi Iwasaki left home on a bicycle ten years ago, he had 160 yen (about $2) in his pocket, and he planned to bike the length of Japan. He was tired of working in his father’s air-conditioning factory, and wanted to do something memorable before his life was over. So he set off on his journey, and whenever he needed more money, he’d perform magic tricks on the street.

But biking Japan just made him hungry for more travel, so he decided to try and bicycle all around the world. He hopped a ferry to South Korea and started his round-the-world adventure. He has since been robbed by pirates and arrested in India, nearly died after being attacked by a rabid dog in Tibet, and narrowly escaped marriage in Nepal. He’s on his fifth bicycle, after two were stolen and two were broken. He says he doesn’t fly because “I wanted to see and feel everything with my own skin.” National Geographic’s Intelligent Travel blog interviewed Keiichi two years ago, and caught up with him again last week to see how things were going.

Full story at National Geographic’s Intelligent Travel blog.

23:09 23rd Aug 2011

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22:21 21st Aug 2011

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Tags: poem inspiration life quote daivd l. weatherford music butterfly

Slow Dance

Have you ever watched kids
On a merry-go-round?
Or listened to the rain
Slapping on the ground?

Ever followed a butterfly’s erratic flight?
Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?

You better slow down.
Don’t dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won’t last.

Do you run through each day
On the fly?
When you ask: How are you?
Do you hear the reply?

When the day is done,
Do you lie in your bed
With the next hundred chores
Running through your head?

You’d better slow down.
Don’t dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won’t last.

Ever told your child,
We’ll do it tomorrow?
And in your haste,
Not see his sorrow?

Ever lost touch,
Let a good friendship die
Cause you never had time
To call a say, “Hi”?

You’d better slow down.
Don’t dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won’t last.

When you run so fast to get somewhere
You miss half the fun of getting there.
When you worry and hurry through your day,
It is like an unopened gift thrown away.

Life is not a race.
Do take it slower.
Hear the music
Before the song is over.

–David L. Weatherford

14:47 29th Jul 2011

Notes: 9

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12:11 14th Jul 2011

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Tags: quote world life inspiration dreams

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