In 2008, Ian Kiernan invited me to become Ambassador for the Clean Up the World campaign, which I have been for the past three years.
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This is when he decided to create Clean up Sydney harbor and eventually Clean up Australia, followed by the international network of participating organizations making up Clean Up the World.
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One of my favorites is Jack Sim, the Singaporean who took a small bounty from business and set off on a crusade to clean up the world's loos as a disease-prevention strategy.
In 2012 they participated in Clean-up the World Day (an annual global conservation event to be held again on 20 to 22 September 2013) by leading hundreds of local school children in and around Nazareth, picking up garbage along the route.
Wonder Woman has to remind him to clean himself up and address the world in a more dignified, professional way than he initially attempted.
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Start-up cash comes from America's Department of Energy, the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a private Washington-based group that has long promoted nuclear clean-up activities around the world, and the Norwegian government.
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For instance Best Western, Carlson, Mandarin Oriental and others have teamed up with Clean the World, an initiative that recycles your partially used soap from the hotel room.
They were cleared off the streets in a 'clean-up' in anticipation of the Fifa World Youth Soccer Championship.
Urging the World Bank to take fresh action to clean up the logging industry, Greenpeace senior forest campaigner Belinda Fletcher said it was "crunch time" for the DRC's rainforest.
Getting the clean-up plans in place, says an official from the World Bank, which is co-funding the project, has been like pulling teeth.
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Brazil has been trying to clean up its most dangerous regions ahead of the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics.
While the internal FIFA investigation continues, the United States will sit back and let the rest of the world put pressure on FIFA to clean up corruption.
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Perhaps as great as the risk that Ms Rousseff will stumble in the attempt to clean up Brazil's politics is that, against a darkening world economic background, such a gradualist approach may be overtaken by events.
Having moved up to third in the IRB world rankings, Ireland should end with a clean sweep of their autumn fair.
Klaus Schwab, president of the World Economic Forum, urged business leaders and politicians to launch personal clean-up crusades to regain confidence lost through debacles such as the Enron scandal.
Rio de Janeiro has been trying to clean up its most dangerous regions ahead of the 2016 Olympics, which it will host, and the 2014 football World Cup.
Despite attempts to clean up the sport, one of the country's leading referees -- Lu Jun, who officiated at the 2002 World Cup -- was sentenced to five-and-a-half years in jail in 2012 for his role in fixing matches.
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