Living Zen

[Berniece Domnick]

Aliving shoreline is a protected, stabilized coastal edge made of natural materials such as plants, sand, or rock. Unlike a concrete seawall or other hard structure, which impede the growth of plants and animals, living shorelines grow over time.

Natural infrastructure solutions like living shorelines provide wildlife habitat, as well as natural resilience to communities near the waterfront. Living shorelines are sometimes referred to as nature-based, green, or soft shorelines. They are an innovative and cost-effective technique for coastal management.

Living shorelines may replace aging structures, such as an old dock or boat launch. Bays, rivers, and homes on the waterfront are good candidates for this shoreline stabilization technique. Typically, living shorelines are not found on beaches on the open ocean.

Evidence shows that during major storms, a living, natural shoreline performs better than a hardened shoreline. People (and animals) who enjoy fishing will appreciate how it supports fish and other creatures.

Living shorelines tend to cost less than hard shorelines, according to Natural and Structural Measures for Shoreline Stabilization, for both installation and maintenance. Installation fees vary from less than $1,000 to $5,000 per linear foot. Maintenance of living shorelines typically costs less than $100 per linear foot annually.

Unlike deceased donors, a living donor can decide who to donate their organ to, helping a recipient get an organ transplant faster. Most living donations happen between family members or close friends. Other people choose to donate to someone they don't know. See stories of real people who have donated and received organs.

Both you and the transplant hospital staff will need to decide whether living donation is right for you. Hospital staff will gather a lot of information about you to determine if you are healthy enough to donate an organ.

As with most medical procedures, there are possible risks for living organ donation surgery. These risks differ depending on each individual donor as well as the type of organ donated. Short-term effects may include pain or infection from the procedure. Long-term effects can include hypertension for kidney donors, or intestinal problems for liver donors.

Kidney paired donation allows for two or more incompatible donor/recipient pairs to swap donors. The donors are then able to give their kidney to a compatible recipient in a different pair. By exchanging donors, a compatible match can be found for these recipients.

If you would like to help someone you know through living directed donation, talk to them and contact the transplant program where the person is listed. If you would like to help someone you do not know by being a living non-directed donor, contact a transplant hospital of your choice and ask if they have such a donation program. Go to the OPTN Member Directory for a list of transplant hospitals.

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Remuneration received for a standard work week by a worker in a particular [time and] place sufficient to afford a decent standard of living include food, water, housing, education, healthcare, transport, clothing and other essential needs including provision for unexpected events.

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The Global Living Wage Coalition supports the use of the Anker Methodology for estimating living wages globally. This methodology, developed by renowned living wage experts Richard Anker and Martha Anker uses a combination of primary and secondary data to create highly accurate, robust living wage estimates that are transparent, internationally comparable, and locally specific.

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This manual, authored by Richard Anker and Martha Anker, describes a new methodology to measure the decent but basic standard of living in different countries, and how much workers need to earn to support themselves and their families. This information allows researchers to estimate comparable living wages around the world and determine gaps between living wages and prevailing wages, even in countries with limited secondary data.

Tiruppur, Tamil Nadu is an important garment-manufacturing city in India with a long history of tense relations around wages. SAI began working with government, employers, and workers in Tiruppur in 2016 to foster collaborative conversation on practical steps to achieve a living wage for the city. This is an ongoing initiative; SAI is seeking participants from Tiruppur€™s garment industry and civil sector and from international organizations and companies with interests in the Tiruppur garment industry for stakeholder workshops in 2019. Read about the initiative and learn how you can help advance wages in Tiruppur.

The overall goal of this project is to improve conditions for workers through supply-chain efforts in Costa Rica and Belize, while also contributing to dialog and progress on living wages and shared value globally.

This programme aims to promote Living Wages for workers in flowers and plants by producing research on living wage and wage setting in Ethiopia and Kenya. The programme aims to build awareness regarding wage issues, mutual trust required for collaboration and acceptance of the need for Living Wage among supply chain actors.

In both Ecuador and Ghana, bananas continue to be a core commodity for income generation. This pilot project provides a powerful opportunity to determine the gap between actual wages and living wages, and ultimately establish a living wage benchmark in each country using the Anker methodology.

Living wage is based on cost of living in a specific geography. Therefore, living wage benchmarks are applicable to all workers regardless of sector, industry, or job type. At the same time, many geographies are dominated by a few sectors, and some sector platforms have developed significant living wage activities which cut across several different geographies or countries. The Global Living Wage Coalition members are also engaged more actively with certain sectors. As such, most living wage benchmark reports reference sectors which either dominate the landscape or were instrumental in realizing completion of the study.

The Global Living Wage Coalition offers content by industry for easy reference on all living wage benchmarks, case studies, and other resources that are available in geographies that are important to that sector.

Living wage is based on cost of living in a specific geography. Often times, the geographic scope is at a sub-country level, and typically there are differences between rural and urban or peri-urban areas. As such, there can easily be more than one living wage benchmark per country.

The Global Living Wage Coalition offers content organized by country for quick access to the relevant living wage benchmarks, case studies, and related resources which may be of interest to a wide range of stakeholders.

The minimum wage does not provide a living wage for most American families. A typical family of four (two working adults, two children) needs to work nearly four full-time minimum-wage jobs (a 76-hour work week per working adult) to earn a living wage. Single-parent families need to work almost twice as hard as families with two working adults to earn the living wage. A single-mother with two children earning the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour needs to work 138 hours per week, nearly the equivalent of working 24 hours per day for 6 days, to earn a living wage.

Independent Living is both a cultural movement and a program. It is a way of looking at disability that puts the individual first and the disability second. The Independent Living Community works toward equal opportunity for people with disabilities to share in all the benefits of society.

An Independent Living Center serves people with any kind of disability in a local community who can benefit from services. Independent Living Centers are designed and operated by a majority of people with disabilities.

Advocacy has two sides: Individual and systems. Individual advocacy means an ILC staff member may accompany a person to medical appointments, housing interviews, Social Security visits or meetings with Vocational Rehabilitation Counselors. Systems change means the ILC may do things like advocate to a transit agency for better routes or buses. ILCs may also help by advocating for curb cuts, street crossings, buildings or anything else that will help all people have equal access to society.

Independent Living Skills are any skills that can help an individual with a disability do what they want to do on their own. Things like budgeting, public transportation training, Assistive technology training and social skills can all be part of independent living skills.

Peer Counseling is based on the idea that people with disabilities know best how to take care of themselves. Peer counselors are people with disabilities who can serve as mentors or resources to other people with disabilities who face challenges in living independently.

Transition can mean helping a person to move from a nursing home to a place to live independently in their own community. It can also mean helping a young person to move to their next steps after high School. Diversion includes services that help people with what they need to live independently in their own home so they do not have to live in a nursing home.

Personal Assistants can help with a variety of needs for some people with disabilities. Hiring, training and letting go of Personal Assistants is something that people who use them need to learn how to do. ILCs can provide training in these tasks and help people who need these assistants to find them.

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