100 SMALL SOLUTIONS
What can creative thinkers do in order to make the world a better place?
1. SUPPORT FREE LIT AND ARTS DIRECTORIES ONLINE
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The internet has provided an uncensored global reference library for those who can afford the technology. It is important that we continue to keep information freely available to the student, researcher, academic, and the public when it comes to arts, ethics and literature. The works of creative people provide the foundation and mythology for a living and developing culture. The thousands of online directories currently available are an important part of the documentation of creative people and their work. As such, it is important to keep this information freely available and accessible to all. Click here to see free culture in action and contribute some information about a creative person! |
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2. HELP KIDS BY GIVING SELF HELP BOOKS TO LIBRARIES
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When the world is in crisis it affects the minds of children in profound ways. Most librarians will agree that the most sought after books in libraries by kids and teens across the Northern Territory of Australia, are those dealing with anxiety, depression and suicide prevention. Many children are attempting to help themselves and as artists and writers, we can help them to do that, by creating the books that they most need, or alternatively, donating self help books to libraries. Libraries in small, remote, isolated, rural and outback areas across Australia are always in need of good quality books for teenagers and children. Why not donate one of your own books, or purchase some self help books for kids and donate them to a library in an isolated or disadvantaged area in your state or territory. Click here to assist Thylazine in our library project! |
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3. GO VEGAN AND HELP ANIMALS EVERY TIME YOU EAT
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Over 1.55 Billion animals were slaughtered for food last year and the death toll rises yearly and doesn't even include fish and other water animals. The world human population is 6.5 Billion and growing. Humans are ravenously addicted to eating other animals; we cant seem to stuff their legs, wings, hips and heads into our mouths fast enough. The level of terror and violence our meat habit creates is astronomical and unmatched by anything else on the planet. The single most important way to make a difference in this world is by what we think and what we eat. Change your consciousness and your dietary habits and change reality. Time to Evolve! Click here to read more! |
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4. JOIN A FIELD NATURALIST'S GROUP IN YOUR AREA
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As writers and artists it is important that we understand the facts about our local and greater environment. This includes geography of the landscape and the biodiversity of plant and animal species. Knowledge such as this brings a depth of substance to our creative work. Animal and plant species are currently disappearing from the Earth faster than they can be named, and one way they are going to have their stories told, is if we bring them into the public eye through our creative work. Write about an endangered species or join a Field Naturalists Club in your area to enhance your powers of observation and give voice to species under threat. Click here to see The Northern Territory Field Nats in action and join a group closest to you! |
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5. SUPPORT INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIAN ART & CULTURE
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Support the arts of indigenous Australian people. It is important to understand the people who originally inhabited this country. Becoming involved in aboriginal art allows us to connect to the land in a way that these people once did. It also gives them an income for their work, which in turn provides a sense of dignity and creative purpose for indigenous Australian artists and writers. Click onto Magabala Books for a comprehensive selection of indigenous Australian books! |
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6. EDUCATION FOR CHILDREN IN BANGLADESH
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We are very fortunate to live in a country like Australia where a majority children have education in arts and literature from an early age. Unfortunately, due to the excessively affluent lifetstyles many people choose to lead, a majority of the world's children still remain uneducated. For just AUD $6,500 the CO-ID organisation built this primary school in Bhola, bringing education to 300 local children. Click onto CO-ID to help build a school in Bangladesh |
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7. BECOME A FOSTER CARER FOR A DOG ON DEATH ROW
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Exposing ourselves to the beauty and truth of other living beings assists us in our personal growth as creative people. Writers and artists need more contact with animals and the natural world. Libraries and art galleries are amazing resources providing cultural education for the public. But when it comes to universal learning, it is worth our while to enter the magnificent galleries of the natural world and the universal beauty that can be accessed by looking into the eyes of an animal. Assist small groups like Paws 'n' Hooves in Sydney's western suburbs by becoming a foster carer. This amazing group of people rescue and rehouse cats and dogs from death row at pounds. These are innocent animals who are sentenced to "death" for humanity's crime of an uncaring heart. |
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8. RECYCLE AND USE RECYCLED PAPER FOR YOUR BOOKS
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Is your book really worth the life of a tree? Or the death of a forest? Our stories can be told in many ways, whereas a living breathing forest is its own consciousness, its own story. A forest is home to a myriads of species, many of whom have not been named. When the Earth's forests die, then so do we. It is now more important than ever before, to recycle all paper and to only use recycled paper for our books and literary magazines and wherever possible, to publish our books as ebooks. Click onto Australian Paper Watch to find out more! We do not have to destroy the world every time we use paper for our work. |
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9. MAKE TIME TO CREATE EVERY DAY IN A DIARY
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Author Tristine Rainer writes, "The diary is the only form of writing that encourages total freedom of expression ... It was this untamed freedom of the diary that first intrigued me ... The diary represented a refuge from the literary expectations and restrictions that had been so much a part of my education. I felt a calling to become an environmentalist of the mind. I wanted above all to proclaim and defend the diary's wildreness beauty ..." (The New Diary, Foreword) Tristine Rainer belives that the primary ingrediants for a positive and productive creative life include: clarifying your goals, focusing inner energies, freeing inhibitions and releasing your imagination, using a workbook to explore dreams and writing about your life: past, present and future. Click onto The New Diary by Tristan Rainer and look into other books, journals, workshops and websites that promote creativity in positive ways. |
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10. SUPPORT THE CREATIVE WORK OF AUTISTIC PEOPLE
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Many people who are born with or who live with permanent physical and neurological disabilities are marginalised and excluded from mainstream society and culture. Firstly, their illness or disability does not afford them equal opportunities and as a result many are have no alternative but to live in permanent care, while those who are a little more abled often live in poverty. Furthermore they often remain unsupported in an ego-orientated comptetitive creative arts culture in Australia. Yet, people who live with disabilities are highly creative. Auties.org is a small website were 'diagnosed' Autistic writers and artists can showcase their work and abilities to society. Click onto Auties.org to support the creative abilities of someone who lives with Autism. |
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