I spent the past 20 minutes looking over the many projects on Global Giving trying to decide which project was the best to support. I was trying to decide between supporting education or local farming projects. I realized after a while that all of these projects are worth supporting. How could I choose one out of the hundreds?
I don't have any money to donate unfortunately :( but I will do my best to promote sites like these--I will keep you all posted.
Added by Wintermute on April 20, 2010 at 1:34am —
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I was just informed as many of you were that one of our own
Claude Raines: an Evoke agent from the begining, a member of SEED, an infantry marine, and a really good friend, is being deployed back to Afghanistan.
Although progress has been made towards a brighter future for Afghanistan, much is still required.
I think it would nice if other agents were willing, post a farewell note here for…
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Added by Wintermute on April 19, 2010 at 1:00am —
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I never give much thought to this miss treatment of women. In my circles of friends and in my class in society I rarely hear about rape or the general degradation of women. I was just reading on the UN women watch site about the horrific things that women have to face. It really makes my stomach turn, and not even the tales of rape and genitalia discouragement but also the seemingly benign things like men taking credit for a…
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Added by Wintermute on April 15, 2010 at 11:30pm —
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If you don't know, I go to art school and yesturday we had a guest speaker, Hoon Kim. Hoon Kim is a Korean graphic designer who does amazing work using sight and sound to display information. One of the works that he presented in his talk was a new system to depict value using sound and color. The system is based on current US currency but I can easily imagine it representing the credit. Whenever a transaction is made a series of tones is created that represent the value of the purchase or sale…
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Added by Wintermute on April 9, 2010 at 4:30pm —
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While reading the Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas I came across an interesting section. The immeasurably wealthy Count of Monte Cristo is talking to Danglars the chief banker of Paris. The count remarks that while Dangars fortune is great it consists entirely of third rate wealth and thus it is actually worth half of what it is estimated. Humbled, Danglars demands for the count to explain, and of course he does.
The count explains his theory of wealth as thus;
"I make…
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Added by Wintermute on April 8, 2010 at 9:30pm —
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So I have been reading all of your act5 posts with great interest, my favorite was Giuseppe's
Wood For Money. I liked the relationship that his family developed with a neighbor--both parties benefiting from the exchange. I though about how I could form a relationship like that and then one day I realized that I already had. I currently am interning with a local glass artists named…
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Added by Wintermute on April 8, 2010 at 5:15pm —
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On behalf of Nick Heyming and Gratitude Gardens I am sending out an Urgent Evoke.
Gratitude Gardens is an Evokation with serious promise but it needs your help. First a little bit about
Nick,
Growcology, and
Gratitude Gardens.The first step in getting this global…
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Added by Wintermute on April 3, 2010 at 9:55pm —
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Hi all
I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Niels LaWhite, chief scientist for
Second Wind and ask him a few questions about Wind Energy. I was hoping that he would give me some guidance with
my project, instead he opened my eyes to the current wind energy situation in America and how I can help.
One thing that Niels told me which I found very…
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Added by Wintermute on April 3, 2010 at 3:00am —
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My friend is going to Las Vegas this weekend and she just sent me a photograph from the airplane. The picture shows the landscape from the window as she flies thousands of feet over the ground at a couple hundred miles an hour. The other day I was speaking to Nick Heyming over the web. I was struck by the awe inspiring feat that was taking place--just like I am struck right now when I look at the photo from the plane.
Think about how incredible both of those acts are! simply amazing.…
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Added by Wintermute on April 2, 2010 at 9:55pm —
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Over the past couple weeks may of you have come to know Stefano Ceiri as a thought provoking, eager and kind EVOKE agent. While following the torrents of posts on blogs like WHATS GOING ON?? & Agents losing their sparks, I noticed that Stefano mentioned that the recent
panamericana fiasco has caused him to have doubts about EVOKE. It made me sad that Stefano might leave so I wrote him a message.
I decided to post the message…
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Added by Wintermute on March 31, 2010 at 8:25pm —
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Hello EVOKE,
It is time to get back to work. I have been working on a couple of projects:
SEED,
Gratitude Gardens,
Wind Powered Laptop--but I am interested in what you all are doing?
I think it would be awesome if everyone made a brief reply…
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Added by Wintermute on March 31, 2010 at 2:04pm —
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The object of Water Day is to get the worlds attention, to raise awareness for the need of sanitation and clean water. If I were put in charge of Water Day 2020 I would draw inspiration from the October 30, 1938 radio broadcast of H. G. Wells book,
War of the Worlds. In case you don't know the story here is the gist.
On Sunday, October 30, 1938, millions of radio listeners were shocked when radio news alerts…
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Added by Wintermute on March 30, 2010 at 3:52pm —
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Lack of food and especially fresh water in impoverished countries like Africa are often seen as less vital causes in light of many of the other issues like the epidemic level of HIV/AIDS--Things could not be farther from the truth. Without food and clean water, people become desperate, violent, and sick. The problem is that clean water is not glamorous--or at least is wasn't. Of all the great efforts that have been made to make clean water available, Scott Harrison and his NPO Charity Water…
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Added by Wintermute on March 27, 2010 at 11:43pm —
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Hello EVOKE.
Over the past two weeks I have been monitoring the increasing dissatisfaction that people are having with EVOKE. What I thought I would do is be one of those def-mutes--just ignore the grumblings and play the game. This week we saw the first instances of EVOKE members leaving, and in an effort to prevent that from happening again I want to share some thoughts with you all.
First: EVOKE is not about getting the most power points. The power points are there to help…
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Added by Wintermute on March 25, 2010 at 10:30pm —
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OK so
take two. I took a lot of your suggestions and took another stab at getting the turbine to work better.
I rebuilt the earlier model so that I could attach it to a proper tripod.
I would have liked to enhance the gear ratio but I was already using the largest and smallest Lego gears that I had.…
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Added by Wintermute on March 21, 2010 at 6:26pm —
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My favorite device is my laptop. I use it everyday and I would love to be able to charge it with wind power. Turbines are cool but I know that there is emerging tech, like sails that are even better. I was also thinking that if you could draw power from the trees as they blow in the wind. Either by attaching lines to the tops an draw power from arresting the top from swaying or even better if you could intercept the energy as it is transferred down the trunk into the ground. If anyone has any…
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Added by Wintermute on March 20, 2010 at 10:42pm —
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in 2010 me and my friends will be celebrating WindDay. It's a new official holiday that celebrates when Wind energy officially met 100% of America's energy needs. On this day everyone flies kits. It is customary to build your own, but you don't have to. Think how beautiful it will be when hundreds no thousands of kits are in the sky, flown by all ages of people who are celebrating the joys of the wind. On TV news casters talk about emerging wind technology, they have educational segments which…
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Added by Wintermute on March 20, 2010 at 12:30am —
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Ive been scouring the web for interesting stories about creative solutions to the energy crisis.
the first one I found was on TED.com
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/adam_grosser_and_his_sustainable_fridge.htmlAdam Grosser uses Ferdinand Carre's invention of absorption refrigeration to create a 20$ refrigerator that can last 24 hrs and only requires a campfire to warm it for 30…
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Added by Wintermute on March 19, 2010 at 1:30am —
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Amos, I hope you read this because I have been thinking a lot about your farm punk idea. I think that it could really work, especially if you created a community of people who help one another with the farms.
If you don't know about Amos's plan check it out here in his blog:
http://www.urgentevoke.com/profiles/blogs/learn2-food-security-in. Having a kit that instructs and guides people how to make a working…
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Added by Wintermute on March 18, 2010 at 10:50pm —
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After reading all the information about food security I was really interested in finding out how secure my community was. I live in Bedford Massachusetts and it turns out that my town and the surrounding areas are well fed. There are at least 5 local farms within a 10 mile radius around me. I was feeling pretty good about this until I read Amos Meeks' Learn2 post:…
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Added by Wintermute on March 18, 2010 at 10:36pm —
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