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INVENTIONS
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& POLITICAL
EDUCATION
IDEAS
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IMPROVEMENT
WRITING
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Social Inventions are ideas that help to improve the quality of life and solve social problems.
They use Applied Imagination - the ability to consider what may be possible in the real world.

Exercise your mind!
Here is a permanent festival of many ideas, to put into action.

   NEWS - AND PAST PAGES AGAIN TOPICAL   FEATURES


Latest update: May 12 2008

  The Australia 2020 Summit

The Australia 2020 Summit must have practical results, with action on its social inventions. Send us your news about practical action outcomes from the Summit, to put up on Ozideas2008.  It must not be left as a time of talk only.

       The Fringe Ruddfest
Radical submissions on the 10 Summit topics

 OzIdeas2008 at www.ozideas.org.au is an extension of OzIdeas 1, with new pages, and many of these pages updated in a new layout easier to download and print  It is also easier to send in your own comments and ideas on each topic.

Links to online magazines and articles -

Economic and environmental
2007 The economy is NOT strong.
2007 Planned obsolescence and climate change
2007 Cutting waste: Unchecked consumption will waste the planet
2008 Cutting waste without destroying economies
2008 Rubbishing plastic bags

Political
2007 More democratic elections
2007 Population as a front page issue.
2007 Australian citizenship and human rights

Social
2007 Crisis of Human Energy.
2007  Medical compensation as a right

    

International

Cutting carbon emissions by cutting waste

SURVIVAL -
what is most urgent?
What life-style and what economics will be possible
with climate-change

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
in short forms easy to read

Links to organizations concerned with practical responses to climate change and future life-style

China 2008. The Beijing Olympic Games. Ideals for sports for the modern age

What the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum
missed out on:

Poverty and population growth
The most serious problem of this century -
Why poverty is not history. Poverty prevention.
World Population growth pdf The staggering figures,
Graphs and updated Tables.
Cycles and crashes of populations over history
Notes on population Problems of population growth
Population growth and the interests that drive it

A Fantasy of Climate change at Animal Farm

Living green -quality life-style with jobs and profits maintained, in world without waste, preventing climate changes, and saving the world's resources.
Possible?

Saving Water with 101 water-saving tips

Imagining Peace - the Kilkenny Solution to war

 

 

  Test then Teach

Help the Aged. How government, industry, publishing and the media can stop making life harder for the growing numbers of elderly, and help to keep them independent.

Living in society

A Really New Book of Manners that oil the wheels of living

Natural Childcare and Unnatural Childcare

Waste nothing - series in e-magazine Bonzer

Literacy

News about the Literacy DVD, Help yourself to read and spell . . 30-minute program to watch 3 times to clear up
gaps and confusions

http://www.ozreadandspell.com.au. The English writing system in cartoon video to help learners and teachers -
Free to copy and download

Can literacy be made easier? The Psychologist, April 2007

Free help in dyslexia testing and clearing up problems -

An International English Spelling Commission for English as the world's lingua franca. pdf

A pronunciation key for international English language schemes, such as Globish and Basic Global English

ABC picture chart, as used in child-play video

Spelling guides in children's dictionaries

 


 

 

Topical in Australia

Democracy and Elections
• Making elections democratic. At present in Australia voters are not adequately informed, and they do not have a decent chance to vote in their own interests. Costs are excessive and benefit media advertisers. These abuses could be reformed.

History and Australian history - an overall view of time and space. See also People they laughed at

A crisis of human energy
What is mental energy?

Ageing populations
Making life harder for an ageing population

 

  2007 IDEAS AND INNOVATIONS  

Social Inventions

See the Global Ideas Bank

and vy contributions

New Year calendar - Solve a problem a day

 


Spelling should be easier

Systematic repair for international
English spelling.pdf

Spelling update - Seven principles for minimum change, to maximise the advantages of present spelling and cut its disadvantages.How seven principls could improve international English spelling, illustrated by 'Interspel' 2006
Simon Jenkins on Spelling, in the Guardian 3.Nov. 2006

 

 

Preventing Dumbing-Down

New Year 2008 Message for all the year



A Wild Romantic Garden

Gardening series in the
e-magazine www.bonzer.org.au
2005 archives.

Even in drought, a garden can survive, with only a little aid

 


  MISCELLANY  


The Da Vinci Sock mystery

Publications

key publications
researc
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multimedia
original thinking
unpublished
books

inventions
and innovations

A page to come, to explain Uniformity and diversity -
Why every page on Ozideas looks a bit different, when today the pressure is on for uniformity of style and appearance.

 

 

BOOKS seeking publishers include:
Waste - personal and economic responses to climate change
Applied imagination
Children's Imagination
Short short stories
Things I think - radical ideas
Literacy innovations
The sustainable householder
Manners for the millennium
Social inventing
People they laughed at

 

 


More innovative

television programs

Inventions that are needed

How good is your Adult Arithmetic?

Better Swearing

Books worth reading.
Tell us your own favorites

Some Letters published & unpublished

Your ideas and comments are welcome. The subject title for sending email messages is 'OzIdeas',
Please tell us of any missing links or images.Contribute - Make your own links - Promote ideas and innovations with projects, sponsorships and competitions.

See also the Global Ideas Bank of the Institute for Social Inventions and its Suggestions Box
and the OzIdeas archive of Ideas before 1997

 
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