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What You Can Do

Adapting to Climate Change:
Smart Housing

Population Growth: A thin layer between life and death

Population Growth: What women want...

Population Growth: Create more space - Use public transport

Green Homes: Go Native in Your Garden

Green Home: Go with the Low-Flow

Green Home: Blue-Green Jeans

Green Home: Does Your Refrigerator Make the Grade?

Green Home: Green No Matter What Color You Pick

Road Safety: It takes two seconds to buckle up - death lasts longer

Road Safety: Call for Action

Road Safety: Pedestrians always lose

Road Safety: Slow down before it's too late

Road Safety: You will survive a missed call - surviving a collision is less likely

MicroPlace: Peer-to-Peer Microcredit

There are a few websites that allow you choose the entrepreneurs you want to support with a small loan.

Minimum loan: $ 100

Interest Rate: Yes

Kiva.org: The feel good market for microloans

Kiva showcases profiles of entrepreneurs in the developing world in need of a loan.

Minimum loan: $ 25

Interest Rate: Non

Opportunity International: Why not help them to "scale up" their work with a small donation?

Minimum loan: $ 1

Interest Rate: Non

Grameen Foundation : Looking for a gift? Enable a whole business for as little as 98 dollars and Grameen Foundation will notify your friend of your gift.

Minimum loan: $ 10

Interest Rate: Non

Water: A hamburger contains 2,400 liters of water. Make a sandwich the rule and a burger the exception.

Water

Do not flush dollars down the toilet. Through water efficient fixtures for example you can save up to 70 percent.

Water: By thinking carefully about your water use in the kitchen and changing some water-wasting habits, it is easy to save water.

Water: The grass is always greener on the other side. With some easy tips you can also green your conscious when gardening.

Water: Write to your government representative and ask him what he does about the global water crises.

Water: Not just a drop in the bucket. Fix your leaks.

Water: Think outside the bottle and kick the bottle habit in favor of tap water

Water: Raindrops keep falling on my head. Collect them!

Demographic Change: From old age to old wisdom. Older people are an outstanding untapped source.

Demographic Change: Job or children? There are ways to combine them!

Demographic Change: I know something you don't. Older people have more experience. Ask them to share it with you.

Demographic Change: Ye children come. Give kids the space to play!

Demographic Change: Get to know your neighbor! You could support each other.

Demographic Change: Plan your financial life early enough

Climate Change: Shoot your computer - or at least turn it off at the end of the day

Climate Change: Eat your (local) vegetables. They're good for you and the climate.

Climate Change: Cool down your wash. It's cheaper and saves water.

Climate Change: Slow down - and save lives, gas, and carbon dioxide emissions!

Climate Change: Use a laptop instead of a desktop and use 80-percent less energy.

Climate Change: Hang up your clothes to dry and save five percent on your electricity bill.

Climate Change: Plant a tree - the investment of a lifetime (two, to be exact)!

Climate Change: Start the energy revolution right in your own kitchen.

Climate Change: Reduce your carbon footprint - or go find another planet.

Climate Change: One cup of tea, please.

What We Do

Allianz on Aging

The Pension Dilemma

The average age of people in industrialized countries all over the world is rising rapidely. Manuel Bauer, the Head of Global Life...

Allianz on Energy Security

A Firm Partnership with the WWF
"Energy Is a Kind of Drug"
Carbon Offsets Hit the Road

Allianz on Health & Pandemics

Pandemics: How Dangerous Are They?

According to Gunnar Millar, pandemics could be a major threat to the global economy, but less so for people. Find out why.

Allianz on Climate Change

UN and Financial Industry Call on G8 to Support Emissions Reductions
Why Does an Insurance Company Care about Climate Change?

Take Action

Population Growth
Road Safety
Green Homes
Microfinance
Demographic Change
Energy and CO2
Use Less Water

Aging Societies

"Public insurance coverage won't improve. Those in need of care and their relatives will have to pay more."

Harry Jentson of Allianz Private Health Insurance discusses how we can take precautions for old age.

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