highly motivated teams, who are motivated by the 'end' (the cause) rather than the 'method' (the task)
— Not Available“For instance, while AI can generate images that appear real, it cannot create convincing backgrounds that can be geolocated, since they do not correspond to actual places.”— Eliot Higgins
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individuals throughout an organisation are usually far more passionate and committed to the organisation than in most for-profit companies
— Not AvailableThird sector organisations have learnt, through necessity, to rally their teams around a common goal
— Not Availablehave to persuade people to part with money for goods or services that are used by others
— Not Availablehave to scrape by on 'zilch' or, at most, on a fraction of what is taken for granted in the for-profit world.
— Not AvailableWe could partly predict where people will come from for future events.
— Francesco CalabreseThe group found that, on average, people living in Manhattan travel 2.5 miles most days, compared to five miles in Los Angeles. But we also found that when you look at the longest trips people make, people that live in New York go significantly further, 69 miles on a weekday compared to 29 in Los Angeles.
— Ramón CáceresUnknown.
Mobile phones can really revolutionize the study of human behavior.
— Ramón CáceresUnknown.
We can win in the struggle to avoid climate chaos, we can win in terms of economic recovery and we can win when it comes to promoting development and justice. All we need is the political will.
— Kumi NaidooEnvironmental activist & former Executive Director of Greenpeace International
We will pay to reduce greenhouse gas emissions today, and we'll have to take an economic hit of some kind… Or, we will pay the price later in military terms. And that will involve human lives.
— Kumi NaidooEnvironmental activist & former Executive Director of Greenpeace International
Taken together, mass migration, mass starvation and mass extinctions are what we will see if we sleep walk into a future of unmitigated climate change. These stresses will ruin economies and drive competition over dwindling resources.
— Kumi NaidooEnvironmental activist & former Executive Director of Greenpeace International
It is difficult to imagine a graver threat; or an area of human endeavour or global ecology in which the profound consequences of runaway climate change would not be disastrous. Already, it is estimated that around 300,000 people die every year as a direct result of climate change.
— Kumi NaidooEnvironmental activist & former Executive Director of Greenpeace International
Pakistan has sought to reassure international donors that funds to help victims of its devastating flooding will not fall into extremists' hands. The Taliban would not be allowed to take advantage of the crisis to increase its support.
— Rehman MalikFormer Interior Minister of Pakistan & Security Advisor
These unprecedented floods demand unprecedented assistance.
— Ban Ki MoonFormer UN Secretary-General, served two five-year terms.
This has been a heart-wrenching day, and I will never forget the destruction and suffering that I have witnessed. I have visited the scenes of many natural disasters around the world, but nothing like this. The scale is so large: so many people, in so many places, in so much need.
— Ban Ki MoonFormer UN Secretary-General, served two five-year terms.
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
— BuddhaFounder of Buddhism & Spiritual Teacher of Enlightenment