1993 Social Inventions Journal
Table of Contents
Children and Education
- Ambulance run by teenagers
- Marking children on their integrity
- Send primary teachers to France
- News from the Institute and The Natural Death Centre
- Girls to start school year later than boys
- 80 universities whose students tutor at schools
- TV watchers must put on show
- Paying pupils to learn
- Videos get kids to eat healthy foods
- Software to help children with dyslexia
- Contingent teaching works best
- All books accessible to all students by computer
- Star teachers only on video or cassette
- Spelling is a social invention
- Alternative Thinking Fellowships
Relationships
- Listening with affection and excitement
- Powerful people speak slowly
- Tentative female talk changes men's minds
- More random kindness
- The helper's high
- Green stamps for the right to have children
- Harness for sex in space
- Tantra
- The Tantric Love Swing
- Sexual desire depends on status and self-esteem
- Longer daylight makes men aggressive
- Sperm damaged by light
- Sex improves women's sporting performance
- How to be irresistible to the opposite sex
- Divorce ceremonies
- What to do when your life falls apart
- A predictive map for family happiness
- Learned optimism more useful than truth
Housing
- Living Over The Shop
New Money Systems
- A Plant-Labour Theory of Value
Taxation
- A tax evaders' amnesty
- Tick boxes to select where your taxes go
- Energy tax to help the miners
Unemployment
- Workfare improved
- Voice mail-boxes for the homeless
Economics & Business
- Shut down the LSE!
- Cooperation only works for small groups
- Index debts and contracts to cure inflation
- Brainstorming recession in a nightclub
- Health regulations can cost lives
- Subsidise bank charges on US cheques
- Experiment and live
- A whistle-blowing senate for companies
- Job hunters' guide to employers
Welfare
- Supporters for those with disabilities
- $75,000 awards for computer welfare projects
Law & Crime
- Judge lets victims take from burglars' homes
- Holistic Lawyers
- Rent-a-dog for joggers
- Free transmitter alarms for battered women
- Recidivism rate cut from 70% to 10%
- Prisons earn more if recidivism cut
- A prison magazine with 200,000 circulation
- Exploiting similarities between crime and drama
Health
- Latest medical tips for health
- Fasting walks
- 'Smart toilets' monitor health
- Less bloodshot eyes from computer screens
- Rocking chair for healing
- Ecstasy - 'non-neurotoxic'; USA research restarts
- Childhood problems as sign of great destiny
- The UK needs a Workaholics Anonymous
- Computer Addicts Anonymous
- Prescription drug info by phone
- Obligatory check-ups or higher national insurance
- Crisis Cards for mental health emergencies
- Self-help pain management
- Health for older people in developing world
- Satisfaction survey of all hospital patients
- Same day operations advertised by radio
- Laser cures snoring
- Patient's hand held during surgery
- Yoga retreats on NHS
- A jog every hour when driving
- Self-help groups by computer
Neighbourhood
- Right Livelihood Award to village revival movement
- Community Action Awards
- Neighbourhood Salons
Ecology & Environment
- The best uninhabited island in the world?
- Eating grasshoppers
- Signs with farm phone numbers for walkers
- A Forest Garden inspired by Robert Hart
- Manchester's first Forest Garden
- Permacamp - a year-round camp site
- School For Self Sufficiency
- Lost pet ads in California predict earthquakes
- Suspend planning laws during recession
- Straw houses and other uses for straw
- Coconut dust as replacement for peat
- Clay balcony pots for composting
- Recycling myths
- Hillman's Musings:
- Packaging tax needed
- Inadequate EC Ecolabelling and environmental auditing
- The Environmental Law Foundation
- Archie's Eco-Checklist
- Sustainable Society study group
- Bamberton new town for 12,000 - controversy
- Auction the whale
- Less weeds if plough by night
- The Earth Chant
Science & Technology
- The joy of inventing
- Patents are a rip-off
- Answerphone messages on technological malfunctions
- Tobacco as fuel and as food
- Save mines with cheap coal purification?
- The brain is not a computer
- Intelligence at the end of the universe
- Burning CO2 to save the planet
Transport
- Car convicted in mock trial
- Give up the most dangerous drug of all - cars
- Give roundabouts sculptures and names
- Freewheelers - a lift sharing agency
- 8mph speed limits for residential roads
- Reprogram machismo drivers
- Bring back right-angled bends and traffic lights
- Ad bikes on free loan from racks
- Horizontal cable cars
Communication
- Homo Sapiens Version 1.0
- Heaven and hell in Virtual Reality
- Multi-User Adventures
- Newsletters during conference sessions
- Visual minutes of meetings
- The transformation of television
- A directory of social solutions
- Black Ice magazine
- Cheap subs. for unsold copies
- Change of address machines
- Copyright gives too much protection
- Six tests for a privacy law
- Visions for the 21st Century
- SF and the race between education and catastrophe
Arts & Culture
- The Universal Mind Lattice
- The Island Group
- Prudent Tattooing
- Paintings and poems for empty billboard sites
- Tear-off comment forms in books
- Politically correct vocabulary
- The dictatorship of reason
International & Developing World
- Harry Schultz Forecasts
- The physics of politics
- Re-inventing Democracy
- 26 regions for South Africa
- Devolution in Italy and the Nordic countries
- Democracy and wealth depend on 'civicness'
- Subsidiarity to be defined from the bottom up
- A tribal Afghanistan needed
- Twinning between affluent and poor villages
- Estonian Renaissance Award
- Combatting uranium pollution of indigenous peoples
- State Dowry feasibility study
- Optimum Population Trust
- Tobacco companies - the most powerful forces on earth
Peace
- Set aside for arms exporters
- Ideas for preventing war
Politics
- Athenian-style democracy for Bury St Edmunds
- The Social Ecology Network
- Modifying Northern Ireland's present electoral system
- The ideology of ideologies
- 10,000 votes by phone every 90 seconds
Spirituality
- Detective stories and the problem of evil
- The meaning of 'Namaste'
- To have or not to have a guru?
- Guru ratings entail 'me ratings'
- Open criticism in church services
- Native American religion banned
- 'Gurdjieff' on drugs
Old Age
- Exchanges between old people's homes
- Multi-media Memory Boxes
- Drum circles for the elderly
- A retirement home for spiritual seekers
Death & Dying
- Funeral myths dissected - a quiz
- Improving teaching about death and dying for nurses
- Learning about death within the curriculum
- Ways to improve care of the dying in hospital
- Supporting a person with cancer through illness and death
- Near-Death Experiences and the hyperactive survival drive
- Improving Western understanding of death
- A shamanic death song
Promoting Social Inventions
- Innovations Centre in Lithuania
- Dutch Ideas Bank
- Swedish award winners
Letters
- An Australian Social Inventions competition
- A social inventions initiative for Belgium?
- Sponsored journals for homeless to sell
- The Book of Visions on radio?
- A social inventions story for children
- Natural Death group
- The calendar, unemployment and an ice age
- All classes have a compost bucket
- Pleasure