awareness
Our own Jason Striegel writes:
It's not every day you get to hack AJAX and social media to help the planet. Check out our [Colle+McVoy] hopenhagen.org site, and help spread the word about the U.N. Climate Change Conference.
What is Hopenhagen?
On December 7, 2009, leaders from 192 countries will gather at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark to determine the fate of our planet. Let's turn Copenhagen into Hopenhagen. Hopenhagen is a movement, a moment and a chance at a new beginning. The hope that we can create a global community that will lead our leaders into making the right decisions. The hope that by solving our environmental crisis, we can solve our economic crisis at the same time. Hopenhagen is change – and that change will be powered by all of us.
Join the movement! Link
 On September 1, 2008, social justice teachers Kerri Leonard and Christopher Greenslate decided to eat on one dollar a day. Could you stick with a dollar a day diet? Follow their experience at their blog. Link.
 To help raise awareness of Colony Collapse disorder Haagen-Dazs produced this video and put together the website Help the Honey Bees.
It is a fact of nature: When a honey bee returns to the hive after finding a good source of nectar, it will perform a unique dance for its hive mates, detailing the distance, quality and quantity of the new food supply. Sadly, honey bees are mysteriously vanishing in staggering numbers - a crisis known as Colony Collapse disorder - which is alarming considering honey bees are responsible for pollinating one-third of our natural food supply.
Link to video. Link to Help the Honey Bees. [via Neatorama]
Here is an interesting poster put together by EuroRSCG Amersterdam for Doctors of the World, Netherlands, which depicts the patient to doctor ratio in different countries around the world.
aki over at meshly writes:
In case you don't know David Droga's Tap Project, it's basically a scheme whereby, for one day, restaurants ask customers if they'd like to pay a dollar for a glass of the local tap water. Droga hatched the idea with the aim of helping Unicef provide clean water to the hundreds of millions of people around the world who don't have it. In its first year, only in New York, Unicef estimates it raised $6 million. Next year it'll roll out in more cities. Wieden + Kennedy has already volunteered to execute the scheme in Portland, Ore., Goodby in San Francisco, and Leo Burnett in Chicago. R/GA will bring an overarching digital component to it. Taxi is ready to take it to Canada and Dentsu wanting to implement it in Japan. Mayors and governors are getting involved. Marketers are standing by to become global sponsors. Unicef is already describing it as its biggest project in 60 years.
"Wouldn't it be amazing if, through our reach, creativity and networks of contacts, we could really change access to clean drinking water all over the world? Our industry will be able to say, 'We, the ad industry, did that,'" said Droga.
Link to article.
 Mandy Sellars suffers from a rare condition called Proteus syndrome, which is thought to only affect about 120 people worldwide.
Her legs and feet, weighing 70kg, continue to grow while the rest of her body remains average size. Because there is no known cure for this condition, doctors may need to amputate in the future, however, Sellars wants to raise the awareness of this condition before any such thing is done.
 The Autism Society of Minnesota will be hosting the 2007 Minnesota State Autism Conference on May 2-5, 2007 in Minneapolis. (It looks like the deadline for registration has already passed, but I'm sure there is no hurt in contacting AuSM if you really want to go.)
Highlights of the conference will be talks given by Temple Grandin, Martha Herbert and Nick Dubin. The Keynote Address will be given by Roy Richard Grinker who is a friend of BlogCadre contributor and autism advocate, Kristina Chew.
Roy Richard Grinker is the Professor of Anthropology and Director at George Washington University Institute for Ethnographic Research, and a father to a child with autism. He recently had a book published, Unstrange Minds, where he discusses a controversial idea.
When you scan the globe using Google Earth you will notice a large portion of Central Africa outlined in orange. Zoom in closer and you will see the words "Crisis in Darfur".
Google has teamed up with United State Holocaust Memorial Museum in hopes people around the world will be able to visualize the vast devastation and genocide occuring in the Darfur region.
"It's our hope that by combining this up-to-date satellite imagery with authoritative data and evidence from the ground in Google Earth we can make it harder for people to stand idly by when genocide happens,' " said Lawrence Swiader, the museum's chief information officer.
The Holocaust museum has also begun using Google Earth on their site to map Holocaust locations in Europe during WWII. Previously: 'Dying for Darfur' Online Game, Ayiti: the Cost of Life
 Autism Speaks created a music video of the Five for Fighting song, "World", which features images of autistic children and their families. Five for Fighting is donating $0.49 to Autism Speaks for each time the video is viewed. They are aiming for 10,000 hits, but hopefully it will be more. Here is the link to the video.
(Thanks, Pinggy!)
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In 1984, the "Fonz" (Henry Winkler) put together a PSA called 
