If you cannot afford a Wii for your loved ones, consider a sheep: Oxfam will let you “buy a sheep” as a gift, and they’ll send a postcard with a photo to your lucky gift recipient. They’ll in turn no doubt cherish the valueless photo, knowing that you’ve meanwhile donated the value of that sheep …
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Via Celsias – a very cool protest about the over indulgence in advertising. Now I’m not at all for banning advertising a la Sao Paulo, but we all have to remember that public spaces, pages in newspapers and minutes of TV or radio time are public goods. It may make financial sense to add just …
This is pretty special – the Kawerau Mongrel Mob chapter won, through a trust, a contract for rigging and scaffolding at a power plant project, and have been performng very well. Scaffolding is an integral part of safety on a site – you need to to make sure that people working on equipment cannot fall. …
Good to see Gareth Morgan putting actions behind words. His newest venture is a KiwiSaver product, and information is available at aptly named Kiwisaver.com. Great scoop on getting that url. Gareth is on a campaign to remove a lot of the shoddy practices in New Zealand’s investment community. The new Kiwisaver product is aiming for …
..my Kiva.org investments that is. A while back I lent money to 5 entrepreneurs via Kiva.org in Keyna and Samoa. The three Samoans have already started repayments, and I have pseudo credit for about 8% of the original amount from each of them. This speed is great, as it keep me engaged in Kiva and …
Disintermediate a Nobel Prize winning business and lend money to villagers around the world directly. There does not seem to be a revenue model for investors (i.e. the loans do not pay interest), and obviously there are verification costs, but it’s an interesting start – Kiva.org Even without a revenue model for investors there has …
Lance Wiggs 