Very much in OneVoice, and very much with a sentiment like that of the KIND Movement, Starbucks bested all videos I got this season with this awesome compilation (which I received from Jason Alexander): musicians and ordinary citizens across the world joined on the same day at the same time to sing the same song:

Among all of KIND’s retail partners, Starbucks certainly ranks among the classiest, most professional and most sincerely committed to truly make this a better world.  In this case the above is part of a partnership with Project RED to fight AIDS.

Tags: Europe, Health, United Kingdom, Philanthropy, Kinded, Latin America, Music, Middle East, United States, Global, Art, KIND Snacks by daniel
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This is another in a series  (see prior examples here and here) of magical uses of art in real life situations - which accentuates all that is good about art and about life - and can be a phenomenal marketing tool:

Tags: Europe, Innovation, Art, Funnies, Marketing by daniel
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My father taught me a very important lesson when I was a girl growing up in East Germany. He said, “Always be more than you appear and never appear to be more than you are.”

-as told to Bono (U2) and captured by him in a New York Times opinion piece.

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Tags: Europe, Education/Raising Children, Democracy and Freedom (or lack of), Music, Favorite Quotes, Leadership by daniel
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Interesting and provocative article from Hoover fellow - Victor Davis Hanson - re Obama foreign policy as lacking in toughness from real politik.

Tags: Democracy and Freedom (or lack of), Europe, Leadership, Global, United States, Middle East by daniel
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An interesting article here describes Sweden’s experiment with climate change impact labels on food items - including on restaurant menus and grocery item labels.  The effort to educate consumers about the environmental impact of their food consumption sometimes clashes with nutritional advice - ie, avoid tomatoes because grown in greenhouses - and sometimes is aligned - ie, red meat doesn’t just raise cholesterol but raising cattle also emits far more CO2 pound to pound than almost anything else you consume.

I wonder if 50 years from now this will be a widely implemented practice that all of us follow as obviously needed, or if some will look back at how silly we were - either because it was too little too late, or just the wrong approach.  But it is certainly an interesting experiment worth following.

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Tags: Europe, Health, Environment by daniel
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Inspiring article…

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Tags: Europe, Democracy and Freedom (or lack of), Leadership, Life by daniel
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Here is a project that seems quite powerful:

…a mesmerizing dialogue between teh children of the perpetrators of the Holocaust and the children of the surivors.  Both live out the Holocaust daily, unable to move forward.  Both finally face the past and are empowered to move on.

The trailer video contained here is worth watching.

I’ve always felt the weight on my shoulders from my Dad’s survival of the Dachau concentration camp.  I cannot escape those shadows. It had never crossed my mind that the children of the perpetrators must have similarly been marked and shaped by that experience.  Very poignant, and the trailer seems to confront the issue with depth and introspection.  It includes the story of a marriage between the son of a survivor and the descendant of a major Nazi criminal.

Tags: Israel, Europe, Introspection, Family, Media and Alternative Media, Movies by daniel
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Nice idea for a social enterprise to build a guerrilla marketing campaign on:

Tags: Innovation, Europe, Music, Art, Funnies, Marketing by daniel
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OneVoice Glasgow is a purely-volunteer-driven chapter that has risen above the rest of the international support efforts to such degree that it is worthy of attention.  They receive zero funding from OneVoice, yet deliver so much in their community and beyond. If we can decode what has made them so extraordinary, international support for Israeli-Palestinian conflict resolution will really take off.  Witness what a few committed volunteers have done:

Tags: Europe, Palestine, United Kingdom, Israel, Gaza, Mideast Negotiations, Leadership, OneVoice Movement by daniel
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Paul McCartney, the newest member to join OneVoice’s Honorary Board of Advisors, has recently written to President Barack Obama making him aware of OneVoice. While performing in Tel Aviv last year, Paul’s message was to bring people together via the power of music - a sentiment that is shared by two singers, Noa, an Israeli Jew and Mira Awad, an Israeli Arab, who are members of OneVoice Israel.  They performed a song together for the Eurovision song contest titled There Must Be Another Way.

 “This seems to me like a great idea, the symbolism of two people from both sides coming together to spread their message of peace via music is exciting and inspiring for me. I hope President Obama looks into this organisation and feels that OneVoice could be part of a peaceful solution.”

Link to the story

Tags: Europe, Israel, Leadership, Middle East, OneVoice Movement by daniel
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