Saturday, October 20, 2007

Got impact?

I'm filled with joy this morning. I spent the last hour exploring the new site that Anderson Cooper set up for the upcoming special program Planet in Peril.
Yes, it's a harsh collection of threats, environmental tragedies and bad news - but they will get only worse if we don't face them and begin to take action, to change our individual behaviors. Simple as that, uncomfortable , yet powerful and effective.
What i loved of it is the snow ball effect it's creating. In the last months we've seen the new series called Heroes where positive actions by regular individuals are shared, promoted. What an inspiration. http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2007/cnn.heroes/
I don't know how, but suddenly another site was developed: Impact your world http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2007/impact/ This site brings together information about organizations that welcome individual support in the areas of disaster recovery, poverty, children, health, refugees and homelessness, planet.
And each one of these three sites is unfolding and blossoming in new sub-sites and new projects.
The latest i found is called Be the Change - a group of young people going into the world to make a difference. So - got impact?