SOCIAL INVENTING FOR A MORE HOPEFUL MILLENNIUM

(Links may still need completion. Jan 2007)

1. Think about

• How to innovate: - The Wishing Game
  
• 40 Paradoxes of Our Time ;
  
• Heritage and pottage;
  
• People they laughed at;
  
• The real Millenium List
  
• Inventions that are needed
• Weapons of Horrible Destruction (WHD) A category of war crimes is needed for the the invention, sales, distribution and use of weapons for horrible deaths, maiming and environmental destruction
• Saving Water
  
• Better Swearing

Words to think with: -

• Hope dictionary of concepts,
  
• Language - more words for people,
  
• Economic & political concepts 2000,
  
• Non-sexist language,
  
• Social concepts for the millennium
  
• Social Arithmetic

2. Social alternatives:

• Personal indemnity insurance - Limited liability - what can be done to solve a growing problem that is starting to strangle our health system, our leisure pleasures, and more
  
• Alternativ Australian History
  
• Alternativ History
  
• Drugs Part 1 and Drugs Part 2
  
• Gambling- Better Gambling
  
• Games for Millionaires
  
• Millennium Ceremonies
  
• Imagination Alternativ
  
• Jobs that are needed
  
• Manners for the Millennium
  
• Peace Entertainment
  
• Alternativ Poetry and Verses
• Alternativ Swearing
  
• Alternativs to Suicid
  
• Alternatives to Waste of Food
  
• Old Care in nursing homes and hospitals
  
• Fotos of their youth for the old in institutions

2. ENTERTAINMENT:

• A Wild Cottage Garden
• Sports alternativs:
  • Sport - OzOlympics
  • The Alternativ Australia Cup
  • Alternative SkillOlympics
  • Good sports,
    
  • Ideas for TV programs
    
  • Community Soccer
    
• BABL© board game
  
• Wishing Game for times of boredom
  
• Good humour,
  
• Pleasures that are Non-consumptive

3. COMUNITY AND RELATIONSHIPS

• The psychology of Gambling, and other ideas and angles on Gambling
• Caring for animals,
• Better Christmas time,
• Stroke language to comunicate after strokes
• Yin and Yang - a balance in life
• Your Millennium Calendar 2002

4. POLITICAL

Running countries

• When capitalism is stupid
• When socialism is stupid
• World global dilemmas
  
• Left, Right in politics
  
• Alternativ Political and Economic Concepts -
  
• Alternativ MAI for international investment rules -

Running Australia

• An Australian OzRoypublic,as an alternativ Australian Government -
  
• More democratic elections, -
  
• Alternativ Taxes 1 and More
  
• Alternativ Taxes 2

5. ECONOMIC: KEEPING THE WORLD ALIVE

• Sustainability - Send in your ideas Helping to save the world - 7 areas to work on
• Water - for Australia and the world. What can be done at every level.
  
• Raising low wages for the working poor
• Economic concepts for the future
  
• Jobs that are needed, jobs for the future
  
• Preventing poverty traps,
  
• Pay for the Working Poor
  
• Preventing Waste of people,
  
• Tuesday Work for the dole
  
• Limited Liability Insurance
  
• 5 The myths of an ageing population

6. LEARNING - IN AND OUT OF EDUCATION

• See ShortList Section 2
• Lerning Styles of Failing Adult Learners
• Arthur Mee's Children's Encyclopedia - a heritage art treasure
  

7. LITERACY AND COMUNICATIONS

1. Literacy Innovations -

• Barriers to Literacy,
  
• Literacy for the Millennium and
  
• Making print more interesting,
  
• 21 Literacy Lessons from the Help Yourself video-project 'Teach Yourself to Read or Find out Where you got stuck. Introduction An overview of reading and spelling. It starts from absolute scratch - so you may know the bits at the beginning and think them boring - but I bet there are parts of it later that YOU possibly didnt know. These lessons are far better as video, with jazzy animated text, songs and narrators, and livelier pictures - so all help is welcomed to finish this project!
  
• Literacy Innovations
  
• Writing systems and their reforms
  
• English Spelling and its improvement - links to 21 pages

2. Writing systems

World writing systems, Alphabetic writing systems,Chinese logographic writing system , The'mixed' Japanese writing system , Korea's amazing writing system , Syllabic writing systems , New and recent writing systems

3. Language and writing systems in

Arabic,Chinese, Cuban Hispanic,Danish,Dutch, Faroe Islands, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Hebrew, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Malaysian, Nicaraguan Hispanic,Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian,Serbo-Croatian, Spanish, Porturguese and Brazilian Portuguese,Turkish

4. Some reforms of writing systems in the past 100 years

Overview Society and writing systems
Chinese - Japanese - Korean - Indonesian and Malaysian - Netherlands - Portuguese Russian - Spanish, Turkish
India's failed writing system reform - Adapting to spelling reform in Greenland - Spelling and literacy in Cuba and Nicaragua -

5. English Spelling and its Improvement

Also see Spelling improvement & links

• The Sixteen word Spelling Test
  
• Taking Ockham's Razor to English spelling
  
• The English spelling system
  
• Vowel chart of how English vowel sounds are spelled, and spellings pronounced
• How they spelled when they could spell how they liked before the 18th century
  
• Rationale for improving English spelling
  
• How English spelling could be streamlined and updated,without losing our heritage of print, Faster
• spelling
  
• How spelling could be designed to help readers , spellers, and learners, and facilitate International
• English as the second language of the world.
  
• Interspel, as a 3-level spelling improvement for International English
  
• Surplus letters in English spellng
  
• Seven Principls for impruving English spelling, for investigation
  
• The future and rationale for English spelling
  
• Alternativ Spelling Step 1
  
• Alternativ English Spelling Step 2
  
• Alternative English Spelling Step 3
  
• Spelling Games! Starting with a Spelling ABC
  
• Spelling and Spelling Reform - References up to 1991
• Spelling as they liked before the 18th century
  
• Spelling Day An Alternativ International Celebration -October 9th

8. FROM CONTRIBUTORS

Ideas from contributors -

• An energy based monetary system - Dennis Spain
  
• Collecting good ideas from the lonely elderly - Eliza Foster
  
• A web e-zine for Over-fifties. www.bonzer.org.au  - Alan Wheatley
  
• Solar power for cooling units - Alan Wheatley
  
• Internet access packages for seniors - Alan Wheatley
  
• Goodwin's ideas about an international phonetic alphabet
  
• Alternative community room for homes
  
• Alternative listening - Geoff Smith
  
• Reducing election costs - M. Tomlinson
  
• Slow tapes for stroke patients - Ethel Date
  
• Pocket cards for the language-handicapped- Ethel Date
  
• On sleep deprivation - Ethel Date