I talked about a resilience plan of our city with my some of my friends and colleagues at work and with my family. No one has ever heard about any kind of resilience plan for Braunschweig.
It is difficult to imagine what type of problems Braunschweig needs to face in the future that really need a resilience plan.
In my opinion Braunschweig should improve the infrastructure to face the continous growth. Furthermore they could provide a better food supply for the citizens and also in…
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Added by Tim Winkelmann on June 6, 2012 at 3:55pm —
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What I particularly like about
www.barefootcollege.org is their approach to sustainability. They've been set up since 1972, but I first heard about them a couple of years ago when I was researching solar power in rural communities. The thing that I think makes their approach sustainable is that they train women to become solar engineers, so that when items break (and they will) rather than villagers being left with some broken expensive kit that just…
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Added by Morag on May 22, 2011 at 6:09pm —
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According to the Greennovate Environmental Challenge for Kids Outreach (GECKO), a small contribution is enough to support 5 Chinese girls to participate in the green ambassador program. Below is what I image each of them is doing in ten years.
Student 1: She is at a university in the final year of her Environmental Engineering Ph.D. She hopes to help China renovate its public infrastructure, while keeping mindful of the…
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Added by John M. Quick on April 11, 2011 at 1:08am —
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Following my discovery of the Greennovate Environmental Challenge for Kids Outreach (GECKO), which educates and trains Chinese youth (mostly girls) to become ambassadors for sustainable living in their communities, I decided to make a contribution to the project. According to the site, a small donation can support 5 students in the program. The project has been around for only a few years, but has already won awards and impacted Chinese kids and their communities. I hope that it continues to…
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Added by John M. Quick on April 11, 2011 at 1:06am —
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Through WomenWatch, I found an inspirational story about the
Greennovate Foundation's GECKO (Greennovate Environmental Challenge for Kids Outreach) program. This initiative educates and trains Chinese youth, many of whom are girls, in schools throughout China. Their programs are offered for free to students and inspire them to become ambassadors to their communities that can inspire others to practice sustainable living. The program…
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Added by John M. Quick on April 11, 2011 at 1:04am —
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Here in Arizona, the water crisis is an important issue that needs to be addressed today and continually addressed into the future. Arizona is home to the sixth most populated city in the U.S., the most populated university, and the…
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Added by John M. Quick on April 3, 2011 at 5:36am —
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"Why do We Want to be Sustainable?
As a sustainable community, Rockville residents will…
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Added by Bonan Zhang on May 18, 2010 at 2:50am —
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Urgent Evoke is an ever-evolving entity; nothing is set in stone. Urgent Evoke is owned by the agents, and will reflect the current attitudes and philosophies of the agents.
0) the 'Evoke' - anyone can send an 'Evoke' call to Urgent Evoke. an 'Evoke' is a request for help that is sent to the Urgent Evoke network. agents will work together to solve 'Evokes'.
1) independent - Urgent Evoke is independent of nationality, politics and location. agents…
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Added by nomadHAR on May 10, 2010 at 11:20pm —
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There are seven continents, hundreds of nations, thousands of cultures of humanity living on our interdependent Earth. One central concept, upheld by the U.N. and other governing bodies, by nations and individuals, is that there are “universal” human rights.…
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Added by Michele Baron on May 9, 2010 at 11:02pm —
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It is the year 2079 and humanity has solved many of its most pressing problems. The world economy has made a huge transition from a focus on constant growth to a recognition that quality of life should be the measure for our wealth. Carbon emissions have been nearly eliminated and the most devastating consequences of climate change have been avoided. Hunger has become a thing of the past as scientists have collaborated with farmers to create safe genetically engineered crops that are grown…
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Added by Nathan P. Wallace on May 9, 2010 at 2:09am —
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The world continues to face urgent and ongoing problems, ranging from black swan events to miasmic trends. Finance, food security, energy, environment, water issues, gender issues, human and earthling-species "global rights," the drive to not only survive but thrive -- Evoke agents listen, learn, look, leap -- whenever and wherever they are needed. Their code? Honor, team, support, sustainability. Their manifesto? Below:…
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Added by Michele Baron on May 8, 2010 at 10:00pm —
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my resiliency improvements for Austin, Texas, USA is in 5 parts. most of my plans are based around redundancy and charity. there is also a major focus on the local community; localized centers give people a direct connection to sources that often seem out of touch. all of these will be networked to each other in a fully connected graph.
1) medical care
while there are several hospitals around, they would be insufficient to deal…
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Added by nomadHAR on May 8, 2010 at 1:15am —
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I am sitting at home with lots of my family. We are eating a good South-African Sunday lunch with the chickens my mother bred her self, lamb my father in law bred himself and all the good vegetables from my own garden. The food is fresh and the different tastes explodes in your mouth. For dessert, my aunt brought preserved peaches (which was grown in her own garden), served with ice-cream bought from the dairy farm close to my parent's home.
To some this sounds almost impossible,…
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Added by Stephan Swart on April 29, 2010 at 10:47am —
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Unrelated to current missions, but I thought this would be something cool to share.
This is the ultimate in sustainability. The Jalalabad Fab Lab (nice name, right) has created WiFi broadcasting dishes from junk around Jalalabad. The dishes are around 70dBi @ 1KM, meaning that they're decently powerful.…
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Added by Nathaniel Fruchter on April 26, 2010 at 11:37pm —
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On March 10, 2020, I’m at home eating dinner with my family. While I’m by no means a chef, I do like to cook. I’m always looking for something new. On this particular day, I’ve finally battled my age old cooking nightmare: fish. By this time, overfishing has nearly destroyed some of the world’s fish populations such as blue fin tuna (…
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Added by Katrina Glidewell on April 24, 2010 at 8:52pm —
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Economic Sustainability is key to a continous social innovations.
Without it, being dependant on fundings, continous presence of an NGO/INGO to making a difference to a society would be chronic at the level of "investment dilemma" -- the more you are investing your time and funds in that particular community, for particular issue, the more 'addicted' society is to the funds, and the more failure it becomes.…
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Added by Nanang Chalid on April 23, 2010 at 7:14am —
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ten years has seen some major changes in the ideas surrounding money and currency. after what is now called the 'Final Crash' of 2018, people finally decided to end the affair with the stock market and unstable trading/currencies. the currencies of individual countries had fluctuated to the point that they were no longer even usable. companies that relied heavily on stock value collapsed. the 'too big to…
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Added by nomadHAR on April 22, 2010 at 1:30am —
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Well. First things first. Boston is not the ideal resilience model, but its slowly working (and sometimes pushed) toward that goal. In terms of minor and major disaster preparedness, the city has a good plan in place. Evacuation routes are clearly marked, and pamphlets inform residents of how to prepare for and respond to in emergencies.
But resilience is about more than being able to respond to a disaster by fleeing. Resilience is about the ability of a…
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Added by Shanna on April 21, 2010 at 2:00am —
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This is a bit of evidence in motion.
My husband and I plan to move within the next month or two to the inner city. Our hope is to plant a garden in our backyard not only for our benefit, but for the benefit of the neighborhood. Starting small, we could provide education on gardening and the essential knowledge of which crop to grow during which season. Our overall goal would be to provide and maintain a community garden where everyone could access and benefit from the food grown…
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Added by Elora Ramirez on April 20, 2010 at 8:17pm —
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The ultimate sustainable community network create owns barter system. These folks have a group of people who decided to be localvores with a twist. They have worked to create renewable resources and fair trade systems and have gotten very proficient at it. Not only do they support their local economy where they live but have been thinking globally as well. They share knowledge resource bases and train apprentices who can return to their own community or relocate to a community in need of their…
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Added by Theodore Burt on April 19, 2010 at 3:52pm —
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