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WeCommune - building community with the people in your worldWeCommune (as in "we are communing...") is a technology platform, now in early beta testing, that provides aggregated micro-communities the tools they need to share resources and build deeper, smarter forms of community. WeCommune gives users a fast, flexible and fun way to come together with ...
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Open Architecture Network - Improving living standards through collaborative design.One billion people live in abject poverty. Four billion live in fragile but growing economies. One in seven people live in slum settlements. By 2020 it will be one in three. We don't need to choose between architecture or revolution. What we need is an architectural revolution. The U.N. ...
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BALLE - Business Alliance for Local Living EconomiesThe Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE) brings together small business leaders, economic development professionals, government officials, social innovators, and community leaders to build local living economies. We provide local, state, national, and international resources to ...
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Clearinghouse - Community Development ResourcesClearinghouse of Professional Information Community Development Resources This section includes general links and resources related to community development and the public library’s role in community development. SOLS provides consulting assistance and advice in the area of community ...
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PhotoVoice - involving people in defining issues through critical dialoguePhotovoice turns on involving people in defining issues. Such an approach avoids the distortion of fitting data into a predetermined paradigm; through it we hear and understand how people make meaning themselves, or construct what matters to them. Photovoice, to paraphrase Glik, Gordon, Ward, ...
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Exploring the role of schools in the development of Sustainable CommunitiesThe Sustainable Schools Strategy, introduced in 2006, set out an agenda for Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in schools, which included as one of its objectives that the sustainable school remit should encompass the wider community. This research examined the processes by which childr...
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Democratic Science and Technology with participatory process of governanceAn Indian indigenous peoples' movement revives a deliberative and participatory process of governance and uses it to tackle the challenges presented by new agricultural technologies
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Environmental lessons: integrating sustainability into educationIs an opportunity to create a culture of environmental sustainability in our schools and communities being lost? And what role might digital technologies play in this agenda?
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Skipso: Enabling Sustainable InnovationSkipso is an online platform and business to business marketplace entirely focused on sustainable innovation Skipso leverages the power of the Internet to accelerate the Cleantech Revolution. In particular, Skipso aims to: Accelerate innovation in clean technologies by creating an environment ...
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MobileActive.org - A global network of people using mobile technology for social impact.Mobile phones are proliferating at astounding rates across socio-economic and cultural boundaries, revolutionizing the way we organize ourselves. With more than 4.5 billion mobile subscriptions in circulation in 2009, they are found in every corner of the world, used by people to communicate ...
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