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The Story of How World Creativity and Innovation Day became a UN Day of Observance in video

Greetings all, Happy to share this video with you – it’s the 15-minute Ted-like speech I gave in Buffalo this past fall at the Creativity Expert Exchange in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the International Center for Studies in Creativity, my alma mater. The founding of WCID is shared, as is the tale of …

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Your Creativity Needed: Ideas for Your 2018 World Creativity & Innovation Day April 21 Celebration

Greetings all, Today, August 2, is Earth Overshoot Day. Essentially, this is the date on which humanity’s resource consumption for the year exceeds Earth’s capacity to regenerate those resources that year. This short video explains what that is and means.  [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPO2-KCyFvc] On April 27 this year, the United Nations General Assembly declared World Creativity …

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Your creativity is needed to save the world

Your creativity is needed. UN call for more action on 2030 Sustainable Development Goals http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/2017/07/hlpf-wrap-up/ Here’s the plan… Use your imagination. Create strategies to help move the UN’s 2030 Sustainable Development Goals forward. Action something. Report your progress, achievements, learnings, and next steps for a massive World Creativity and Innovation Day, April 21 celebration This …

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The lazy person's guide to saving the world – United Nations Sustainable Development

Thinking about your celebration for World Creativity and Innovation Day, April 21, 2018 and World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15 – 21, 2018? Why not engage in using your creativity in problem solving to help achieve the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals established by the United Nations in 2015? Take a look at the Lazy …

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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: United Nations recognizes World Creativity and Innovation Day, April 21

Update April 21,2017.  Great news!! WCIW is gaining momentum. More sponsors want to be included in UN resolution. Delayed reading in General Assembly! Thank you, everyone, for your leadership, inspiring others to use creativity (generating new ideas, making new decisions, taking new actions and achieving new outcomes) and innovation in their problem-finding and problem-solving to …

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