SOCIAL INVENTING FOR A MORE HOPEFUL MILLENNIUM
(Links may still need completion. Jan 2007)
1. Think about
1. Think about -
How to innovate: - The Wishing Game
40 Paradoxes of Our Time ;
Heritage and pottage;
People they laughed at;
The real Millenium List
Inventions that are needed-
Weapons of Horrible Destruction (WHD) A category of war crimes is needed for the the invention, sales, distribution and use of weapons for horrible deaths, maiming and environmental destruction
Saving Water
Better Swearing
Words to think with: -
Hope dictionary of concepts,
Language - more words for people,
Economic & political concepts 2000,
Non-sexist language,
Social concepts for the millennium
Social Arithmetic
Social alternatives : -
Personal indemnity insurance -Limited liability - what can be done to solve a growing problem that is starting to strangle our health system, our leisure pleasures, and more
Alternativ Australian History -
Alternativ History -
Drugs Part 1 Drugs Part 2
Gambling- Better Gambling
Games for Millionaires - .
Millennium Ceremonies-
Imagination Alternativ
Jobs that are needed-
Manners for the Millennium -
Peace Entertainment -
Alternativ Poetry and Verses -
Alternativ Swearing -
Alternativs to Suicide -
Alternatives to Waste of Food
Old Care in nursing homes and hospitals
Fotos of their youth for the old in institutions
2. ENTERTAINMENT:
2 A Wild Cottage Garden
Sports alternativs:
Sport - OzOlympics
The Alternativ Australia Cup -
Alternative SkillOlympics - -
Good sports,
Ideas for TV programs
Community Soccer
BABL© board game
Wishing Game for times of boredom
Good humour,
Pleasures that are Non-consumptive
3. COMUNITY AND RELATIONSHIPS
The psychology of Gambling, and other ideas and angles on Gambling
Caring for animals,
Better Christmas time,
Stroke language to comunicate after strokes
Yin and Yang - a balance in life
Your Millennium Calendar 2002 !
4. POLITICAL: Running countries
When capitalism is stupid,
When socialism is stupid,
World global dilemmas -
Left, Right in politics -
Alternativ Political and Economic Concepts -
Alternativ MAI for international investment rules -
Running Australia
An Australian OzRoypublic,as an alternativ Australian Government -
More democratic elections, -
Alternativ Taxes 1 and More
Alternativ Taxes 2
5. ECONOMIC: KEEPING THE WORLD ALIVE
Sustainability - Send in your ideas Helping to save the world - 7 areas to work on
Water - for Australia and the world. What can be done at every level.
Raising low wages for the working poor
Economic concepts for the future
Jobs that are needed, jobs for the future
Preventing poverty traps,
Pay for the Working Poor
Preventing Waste of people,
Tuesday Work for the dole
Limited Liability Insurance
5 The myths of an ageing population
6. LEARNING - IN AND OUT OF EDUCATION See ShortList Section 2
Lerning Styles of Failing Adult Learners
Arthur Mee's Children's Encyclopedia - a heritage art treasure
7. LITERACY AND COMUNICATIONS1. Literacy Innovations -
Barriers to Literacy,
Literacy for the Millennium and
Making print more interesting,
21 Literacy Lessons from the Help Yourself video-project 'Teach Yourself to Read or Find out Where you got stuck. Introduction An overview of reading and spelling. It starts from absolute scratch - so you may know the bits at the beginning and think them boring - but I bet there are parts of it later that YOU possibly didnt know. These lessons are far better as video, with jazzy animated text, songs and narrators, and livelier pictures - so all help is welcomed to finish this project!
Literacy Innovations
Writing systems and their reforms
English Spelling and its improvement - links to 21 pages
2 Writing systems
World writing systems, Alphabetic writing systems,Chinese logographic writing system , The'mixed' Japanese writing system , Korea's amazing writing system , Syllabic writing systems , New and recent writing systems
3. Language and writing systems in
Arabic,Chinese, Cuban Hispanic,Danish,Dutch, Faroe Islands, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Hebrew, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Malaysian, Nicaraguan Hispanic,Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian,Serbo-Croatian, Spanish, Porturguese and Brazilian Portuguese,Turkish
. 4. Some reforms of writing systems in the past 100 years
0verview Society and writing systems
Chinese - Japanese - Korean - Indonesian and Malaysian - Netherlands - Portuguese Russian - Spanish, Turkish
India's failed writing system reform - Adapting to spelling reform in Greenland - Spelling and literacy in Cuba and Nicaragua -
5. English Spelling and its Improvement
and see Spelling improvement & links
The Sixteen word Spelling Test -
Taking Ockham's Razor to English spelling
The English spelling system
Vowel chart of how English vowel sounds are spelled, and spellings pronounced How they spelled when they could spell how they liked before the 18th century
Rationale for improving English spelling
How English spelling could be streamlined and updated,without losing our heritage of print, Faster spelling
How spelling could be designed to help readers , spellers, and learners, and facilitate International English as the second language of the world.
Interspel, as a 3-level spelling improvement for International English
Surplus letters in English spellng
Seven Principls for impruving English spelling, for investigation
The future and rationale for English spelling
Alternativ Spelling Step 1
Alternativ English Spelling Step 2
Alternative English Spelling Step 3
Spelling Games! Starting with a Spelling ABC
Spelling and Spelling Reform - References up to 1991
Spelling as they liked before the 18th century
Spelling Day An Alternativ International Celebration -October 9th
8. FROM CONTRIBUTORS
Ideas from contributors -
An energy based monetary system - Dennis Spain
Collecting good ideas from the lonely elderly - Eliza Foster
A web e-zine for Over-fifties.
www.bonzer.org.au - Alan Wheatley
Solar power for cooling units - Alan Wheatley
Internet access packages for seniors - Alan Wheatley
Goodwin's ideas about an international phonetic alphabet
Alternative community room for homes
Alternative listening - Geoff Smith
Reducing election costs - M. Tomlinson
Slow tapes for stroke patients - Ethel Date
Pocket cards for the language-handicapped- Ethel Date
On sleep deprivation - Ethel Date
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