A crash course in changing the world.
There are so many resources shared that it is simply amazing. Here are the ones I have gathered this week and there are way too many. I've tried to give credit, beginning a day after i started this week's effort. But lol you know what it is like to be flying around this site trying to do everything while realizing you can only touch on a few things in the time you have available :)
Creating inclusive cities in India
http://www.saath.org/saath/index.php
farm ideas for autistic chidren
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/schools/animal-magic-ho...
autism network
"Solutions are in our nature"
a family of charitable foundations operating in Canada, Israel, and the United States. Our mission is to encourage young people to strengthen their knowledge of their heritage, history and culture, as well as support programs to improve the quality of life in Israel.
USDA Poverty
from Patricio Buenrostro-Gilhuys
This group is at Berkeley
http://nature.berkeley.edu/bfswg/
and
http://cwh.berkeley.edu/resources/2/33/
This is a program in Columbia University
http://gosustainable.blogspot.com/
This one in at Stanford
http://foodsecurity.stanford.edu/
This one in Harvard
http://www.globalhungerinitiative.com/
Food Security has many angles one of them is what we eat:
Why eat sustainable?
http://www.sustainabletable.org/intro/why/
The issues http://www.sustainabletable.org/issues/
Some cooking ideas and yummy sustainable recipes by the Sierra Club
http://www.sierraclub.org/truecostoffood/cooking.asp
Spanish Link
http://proyectohidroponico.blogspot.com/
Farmers Markets
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/03/help-make-farmers-markets-u...
Fungus
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/02/ff_ug99_fungus
http://www.sembradoresurbanos.org
the group that inspired me to build a global network of Community
Urban Farms.
Floating garden
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinampa
http://groups.diigo.com/group/evoke_team
The Rebuilding Center
http://www.rebuildingcenter.org/
We Collaborate as a Distributed Network
http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/m.dodge/cybergeography/
... It´s biommimicry, we
learned from Nature
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhizome
and even philosophy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhizome_(philosophy)
http://www.newyorker.com/online/video/conference/2008/mcgonigal
JOIN THE COMMUNITY URBAN FARMS
http://www.urgentevoke.com/profiles/blogs/next-step-community-urban-1
"When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion." –
Ethiopian proverb
Spanish
http://www.inegi.org.mx/inegi/contenidos/espanol/prensa/Contenidos/
... comes from INEGI (National
Institute for Geography and Statistic)
biomimimicry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomimicry
terms. How can we collaborate learning from nature?
rhizomes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhizome
whichare distributed networks.
distributed network can be a model for the EVOKE
Network and for a Network of Community Urban Farms
http://www.urgentevoke.com/profiles/blogs/next-step-community-urban-1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLU1nN-0tuc
Kindness breeds more Kindness
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/03/kindness-spreads/
If you are traveling anywhere in the World you can stay for FREE at a Couchsurfers place. If a Couchsurfer is traveling to your town and you accept them they can stay at your place for free.
15 FREE Tools for web based collaboration for EVOKE Agents. We all live in different parts of the world, the best way to stay in touch is this website and through FREE web tools available at:
http://sixrevisions.com/tools/15-free-tools-for-web-based-collaboration/
Secret Society for Creative Philanthropy
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/02/26/DD701C5IGJ.DTL
Quote: " I believe useful
innovation comes from a deep understanding of traditions and the real
needs of the the people you are working with. It´s not about helping,
it´s about collaboration and innovating respecting cultural traditions
and not trying to impose external cultural values."
Michael Driscol
http://www.ehow.com/how_2108138_plant-feed-sack-garden.html
about planting a feed sack garden, talk about using materials in innovative ways!
a.v.koshy
Please read this FAO by UN that shows there are crop
reserves for almost everything
http://faostat.fao.org/Portals/_Faostat/doc**ents/pdf/world.pdf
Shakwei Mbindyo
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080825204152.htm
EduTech
A World Bank Blog on ICT use in Education
Caroline Meeks on March 11, 2010 at 6:57pm
K–NFB Reading echnology
http://www.knfbreader.com/index.php
Safe Motherhood
http://www.whiteribbonalliance.org/
How to Plant a Feed Sack Garden
http://www.ehow.com/how_2108138_plant-feed-sack-garden.html
Video
Making a Bag Garden in Uganda
Talking books "Literacy Bridge"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8tln5Ym3t4
Pass on gifts
Dinner is served
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCVGccp9ybE
Marko Kolovrat
http://montereybayaquarium.typepad.com/sea_notes/2010/02/an-immortal-jellyfish.html
Greg Stevenson
http://www.carbonwarroom.com/about/founders
Autonomy, mastery, and Purpose. really good video, worth seeing!
http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/618
http://www.urgentevoke.com/forum/topics/challenge-the-network?commentId=4871302%3AComment%3A19805
Joanna Chaplin
Tangerini's Spring Street Farm offers everything you
love about visiting the farm:
http://www.tangerinisfarm.com/
The open source washing machine project aims to rethink the way we wash clothes around the world, in accordance with economical, sociological, cultural and environmental aspects.
Community Supported Agriculture
An interesting venture we could all help with!
http://www.localharvest.org/csa/
Neat, cool housing possibilities
http://calearth.org/building-designs/eco-dome.html
a.v.koshy
http://phosphorus.global-connections.nl/
http://duncanmarasanitation.blogspot.com/2008/03/phosphorus-crisis-3_21.html
Bongumusa
Different Charities
JAM-focuses on nutritional feeding
John D. Boyden
The goal is to enable the winners to turn their idea into commercially viable solutions to the energy problems facing the region.
http://www.ssireview.org/articles/entry/out_greening_your_neighbor/
WARMTH-base on nutrition projects
Lean on Me-improves lives of people affected by HIV/AIDS
The Children Hospital Child
www.childrenshospitaltrust.org.za
Panamericana
Resilient Communities
http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2008/01/the-resilient-c.html
ONLINE GAMES, SUPEREMPOWERMENT, AND A BETTER WORLD
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