The Purpose issue # 22🔥

Welcome to our new readers this week. Go gently on us, dear reader, while we recover from Reading festival. Thursday should do it.

And we're on, like a fresh shirt 👇

In this issue

🏖️ Go east, live well

🔗 I'm yelling timber

💡 Digital skills report

😎 Tweet of the day

🌐 Web 3.0 dictionary series to make you smarter

💰 Jobs-a-go-go

Get some Ikigai in your life

Here's a neat graphic of what the Japanese call "Ikigai" - which loosely translates to 'your reason for being' (or Purpose, ahem). 10 simple things to remember. At Purpose towers we struggle with 3 (taking it slow) and when eating tapas, number 4 (don't fill your stomach - use the 80% rule). Noted,Japan, noted.

Find out more here

Timber cities are the future, or possibly bonkers

Ok, so timber cities. what do we think? here's an interesting one from the Guardian - Whilst it would make sense to cut carbon emissions by reducing concrete and steel urban construction over the next century, it doesn't come without risks and tradeoffs

• It could avoid more than 100 billion tons of emissions of the greenhouse gas CO2 until 2100

• Which oisabout 10% of the remaining carbon budget for the 2°C climate target

• However cutting down natural forests for tree planations might be a 'terrible idea'

More on it here and here

ICYMI (In Case You Missed It)

Loads of good data and insight here in the Charity Digital Skills report 2022. Not surprisingly over half of those responding had started offering new online services with more than 20% have expanded their delivery areas since moving online.

See the full report here

Tweet of the day

We all need some wholesome. So here's todays edition

Take a look at more from Sam here

Web 3.0 dictionary 101 for non-techies(i.e me and you)

Look smart when you get asked about the metaverse/crypto/NFTs in your next board meeting. We're on a mission to skill you up. WAGMI! ( if you don't know what that means, You're in the right place!)

Cold Wallet- This refers to offline ways of storing cryptocurrencies, or their related information or passwords - from pieces of paper with your private key details to a hardware device. The important bit (he cold in Cold Wallet) refers to the device NOT being connected to the Internet which means they are generally safer - as opposed to a hot wallet, which is connected all the time, meaning it's handier to use, but offers less security

Note: The above AI-generated image of "a person holding a cold crypto wallet standing outside a building" is fair giving us the creeps. Low-key Omen vibes. brrrrr.

Quick takes, interesting stuff

⏩ If you manage people, look at this

⏩ This is how much it'll cost to run your applicances from October, eek

⏩ All you need to know about heatpumps

Every week we showcase small, purpose-driven organisations - give them a follow

Show some love to these small organisations, all doing great work across diverse areas of good - from human rights to mental health. Hit them up below to follow;

🚀 @Running_Charity Harnessing the benefits of running & fitness, we help to transform the lives of young people experiencing homelessness.

🚀 @TheWISHCentre London Charity for selfharm and abuse prevention for youth

🚀 @sals_shoes Almost 4 million pairs of preloved children's shoes now walking again on new feet in 58 countries

Career moves

Head of operations

As a fast growing social enterprise with a mission to address climate change we’ve experienced a growth in the scope and scale of the projects we deliver. From a small, integrated staff team we’ve grown to manage a number of large scale projects ranging from participatory citizen engagement to tech-led innovation

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Dogonne it, Let us know how we doing

Let us know what you think of today's email. Make us crack a smile, cry tears of a clown or leave us shaking an angry hand at the person in the sky for starting this newsletter in 50 degree heat, whilst heading into the worst recession in living memory (or since the last one, you choose) Do your worst, galaxy.

👍 You brought thunder

👍👍 You brought rain

👍👍👍 You brought 75 and sunny

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Slainte,

Team purpose

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