A crash course in changing the world.
http://tech.ashoka.org/Community_electricity+generators
I liked this effort because it had a community rallying behind the electricity effort and to get enough biomass, it takes a village. :)
Added by Betsy Aoki on March 25, 2010 at 2:15am — No Comments
It was heartwarmign to see - after a search for "food security seatthe" , under the Community Food Security Coalition's list, a program that I knew about and have had friends take part in, but didn't connect to the challenge of this week's Evoke.
The program is Seattle's
http://www.cityofseattle.net/neighborhoods/ppatch/
And their fact sheet is here:…
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I already follow Beth Kanter (http://twitter.com/kanter) , a social good twitterer and amazing fund-raiser, and I thought I'd follow Matt Flannery (http://www.twitter.com/mattflannery as a counterpoint (CEO Of Kiva.org). Because I'm always on twitter for work and for myself, I feel like this is the best way to keep up with the world of micro-lending and get it as part of my daily dose of online…
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My favorite of the 33 design principles ended up being drawn from the supporting points of interviewing the right people and learnign to live on $2 a day. If you are trying to create a product or a system to help people, you should try as much as possible to learn from people who embody the problem you want to help, or who pay the price every day for the weaknesses of the system in their bodies.
So with regard to having to carry water on your head - it doesn't make sense for a…
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