• Enjoy Trying on the Way to Achieving

    Digger dette tipset fra HBS Management Tip of the day:

    “Trying something new can be daunting, especially if you fall short at first. Before you get frustrated and give up, remember that practice really does make perfect. To achieve perfection, stop focusing on it. Instead, try to enjoy the process of trying. If you want to be a great manager, you need to enjoy being a poor one long enough to get good at it. If you want to be a stellar salesperson, you need to spend time being a clumsy one first. You can achieve anything as long as you are willing to enjoy striving for it along the way.”

  • Green Belt Movement

    - Startet av Wangari Maathai (vinner av Nobel Fredspris) for omtrent 30 år siden
    - Bidratt til planting av over 45 millioner trær, hovedsakelig i Kenya
    - Treplanting er mer enn bare miljørelatert, det er også svært viktig for lokalbefolknigen
    - Plantingen skjer derfor i tett integrasjon med lokale grupper (over 4000 siden starten)

    “First of all there will be a fast spread of the Sahara desert. It is spreading now. So crises like what is happening in Kenya and Darfur will get much worse. There will be violent competition over shrinking arable land, grazing land and water points as the desert spreads and dries up the land, rivers and lakes. Second, there will be crop failure because of changing rainfall patterns, and we will get massive starvation and migratioins. As we all know, people don’t sit down and wait to die. They migrate and do whatever they can to overcome political and economic barriers. Climate change is therefore also an issue of security”. –Wangari Maathai

    http://www.greenbeltmovement.org/