04 July 2009
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Politics (411)
Communications & Internet (612)
Environment & Ecology (855)
Education & Children (657)
Social invention & creativity (259)
Neighbourhood & Community (503)
International & Developing World (464)
Crime & The Law (374)
War & Peace (150)
Arts, Leisure & Lifestyle (561)
Relationships (298)
Welfare & Charity (348)
Science & Energy (387)
Transport (491)
Work & Unemployment (274)
Business & Economics (439)
New Money Systems & Financial Innovations (236)
Housing (206)
Taxation (144)
Old Age (130)
Health & Therapy (520)
Spirituality (133)
Quality of Life (100)
Death and Dying (213)
Meta: about the Global Ideas Bank (117)
Book Reviews (78)
Product Bin (95)
Total Ideas:
6219
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Most Recent Ideas
1. Use Elgg or other open-source freeware as add-on to GIB
60%
2. Use Elgg or other open-source freeware as add-on to GIB
0%
3. The Human Knowledge MindMap
52%
4. Green Orchard (Walnut) for Poverty Reduction and Environment Protection
100%
5. Curb day: give your stuff away
71%
6. Anti-frivolous lawsuit group
0%
7. Preserve unmodified lifeforms and genetic material (including ourselves) before it’s too late
55%
8. Celebrate the history of the universe by re-enacting it every year
60%
9. Use natural cycles and lifetimes to deepen our sense of time
0%
10. Surplus windmill electricity to geothermal energy
85%
11. Universal Points Reward Card
70%
12. Post Post.com
0%
13. Publicly funded home improvements in return for a share of the house, or the house's increase in value
0%
14. Add a ' Near Misses and Failures' Section to Your CV/ Resume
50%
15. Protecting the rights of internet users
0%
16. Avoiding foreclosure by selling a share in the house's future value-increase
50%
17. Always-On PCs to Help Worthwhile Causes
0%
18. The One Year Marriage
90%
19. Objective Thinking Education
0%
20. Alternate Street Lights Only Illuminated After Midnight to Reduce Electric Energy Use and Carbon Emissions
86%
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Most Viewed Ideas
1. The 'upsuck' theory of orgasm
67%
2. The Forest Garden
86%
3. The Tantric Love Swing
79%
4. Curitiba and its visionary mayor
88%
5. Pre-Marriage Percentage Compatibility Rating Test
79%
6. Adultery linked to large testicles
53%
7. Women's bare-breasted equality
82%
8. Tantra
81%
9. Magic Circle to enhance children's self-esteem
86%
10. Fuel from water (hydrogen power)
88%
11. Nearest Post Box Locator
89%
12. Female urinals with hoses
72%
13. Visits to the elderly from P.A.T. Dogs
87%
14. Advantages and disadvantages of four-day week
86%
15. Listening with affection and excitement
87%
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Key
- Seed (An initial idea concept)
- Plant (An idea in development)
- Tree (An idea which has reached maturity)
Highest Overall Rating
1. Green Orchard (Walnut) for Poverty Reduction and Environment Protection
100%
2. The Fruit Tree Planting Foundation
91%
3. Arbor-Sculpture and Arbor-Smithing
90%
4. Greening Search Engines
90%
5. Tax Dollars For Recyling
90%
6. The One Year Marriage
90%
7. Living Walls to Clean Inner City Air Pollution
90%
8. Vitamin and Mineral Enriched Fast Food
90%
9. Forest Garden and Eden Project Around the World
90%
10. Naturalizing Schools: a greenhouse in every room
90%
11. Seed Embedded Fertilizer Paper
90%
12. Pollution Equalization: carbon neutral business environments
90%
13. Tree Planting Competitions
89%
14. Allowing others to develop your idea on GIB : faciliating collaboration
89%
15. Nearest Post Box Locator
89%
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Most Discussed Ideas
1. No money, no problem....the moneyless world
67
2. Teaching boys from an early age to respect women
44
3. We should give tax breaks for individuals with high IQ's that have children.
39
4. GPS-controlled speed restrictors
37
5. Structural Deep Democracy (SD2)
35
6. Human cloning to keep great individuals for posterity
28
7. Computerised, individualised, instant democracy
27
8. Getting professors directly involved in government, in their area of expertise.
26
9. Un-patent registry
24
10. Teach Sign Language in all the world's schools
22
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Top Idea Submitters
1. UKJohn
146
2. JGTONS
83
3. newtron
65
4. mudpuppy
52
5. RogerKni
34
6. myclob
34
7. serendipity
32
8. loqi
31
9. kwickham
31
10. Gregory Wright
25
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