20 November 2008
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Total Ideas:
6169
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Most Recent Ideas
1. Give Earth A Bank Account
71%
2. Landlords And Tenants Each Pay 50% Of Utility Costs
58%
3. An Internet-based Participatory Democracy System
78%
4. Football Supporters Community Intervention
75%
5. Portion Of University Application Score Comes From Ranking Within Your School
88%
6. Armed Services Used for Peaceful Purposes
85%
7. Early Melanoma Detection By Barbers
89%
8. Condoms Acceptable To The Catholic Church
68%
9. House Of Lords To Be Elected By Abstract Constituencies
0%
10. Shouldn't Parents Have The Ability To Negotiate With Criminals?
0%
11. Rainbow-coloured Car Parks
86%
12. Tax Cut For Tree Plantation
80%
13. Indicate True Preferences When Voting Tactically In FPTP Elections
73%
14. US Dollar Backed By Oil
58%
15. Primary School Traffic Training Programme
55%
16. Search For A World Leader
70%
17. Link Immigration Numbers To Available Housing Units
50%
18. Finding Friends Around The World By Matching Birth Dates
80%
19. Everyone Learn To Read And Write Chinese Script
83%
20. Bathroom Music To Avoid Embarrassment
47%
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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. Tantra
81%
7. Adultery linked to large testicles
53%
8. Women's bare-breasted equality
82%
9. Fuel from water (hydrogen power)
88%
10. Magic Circle to enhance children's self-esteem
86%
11. Female urinals with hoses
72%
12. Nearest Post Box Locator
88%
13. Visits to the elderly from P.A.T. Dogs
87%
14. Listening with affection and excitement
87%
15. Advantages and disadvantages of four-day week
87%
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Highest Overall Rating
1. Tree Tax
92%
2. Forest Garden and Eden Project Around the World
91%
3. Greening Search Engines
91%
4. Naturalizing Schools: a greenhouse in every room
91%
5. Seed Embedded Fertilizer Paper
91%
6. Future Cities Past
91%
7. Nutrient Recycling Soil Saving Program
91%
8. Living Walls to Clean Inner City Air Pollution
91%
9. Arbor-Sculpture and Arbor-Smithing
91%
10. Tree Planting Competitions
91%
11. The Fruit Tree Planting Foundation
91%
12. Pollution Equalization: carbon neutral business environments
90%
13. Department of Peace
90%
14. Financial help for victims of domestic violence
90%
15. Football Supporters Build Dreams
90%
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Most Discussed Ideas
1. No money, no problem....the moneyless world
63
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
36
5. Structural Deep Democracy (SD2)
35
6. Human cloning to keep great individuals for posterity
28
7. Getting professors directly involved in government, in their area of expertise.
26
8. Computerised, individualised, instant democracy
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. myclob
34
6. serendipity
32
7. RogerKni
32
8. kwickham
31
9. loqi
31
10. Gregory Wright
22
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