I keep chickens and last week I heard that someone in my area had 2000 ex-battery hens or (re-chargers) who urgently needed a home. I love my chickens but when I imagine 2000 hens at once I feel slightly sick.
I was more than keen to help out though, and wanted to add to our little family. On contacting the lady in charge of the re-homing, I was astounded to hear that her charity had found homes for 10,000 hens in just 6 weeks. And they had a waiting list for more!
Ok they had a good incentive because it was either that or the slaughterhouse but this is pretty impressive stuff.
Well done Little Hen Rescue!
This leads me to the recent Reboot Britain get together. Paul Miller from The School of Everything made the point very well that one of the biggest opportunities on the web today is the ability to organise real stuff via cyberspace. I agree with him and my chicken story bears out that the impact is not insignificant. Can you imagine how a small charity to save battery hens could have achieved such astounding results without the power of the web?
The good news is that we haven’t seen the best yet and, as Paul says, there is plenty of big stuff to be achieved orgainsing real world needs:
Imagine using the web more creatively to:
- organise health
- organise water
- organise poverty
- organise sustainability
- and so on……where are the boundaries?
We will soon be organising something that we think is pretty important. A free un-conference on water efficiency in the UK. Register for free now.
Tags: hen rescue, organise web, paul miller, reboot britain, school of everything, web 2.0, web project people