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Esa Ruoho Crowdfund campaign to get to Free Energy conference + visit Earthship in April 2015. Esa has been in the FE movement for a decade, and wants to make a pilgrimage to the UK for the Renaissance Charge conference as well as to visit the Earthship, a sustainable off-grid demo house in Brighton.

Esa Ruoho Crowdfund campaign to get to Free Energy conference + visit Earthship in April 2015

He visited Steorn during the 2009 demo and the Schauberger and Tesla museums in 2010. Hi, I’m Esa Ruoho, a composer of electronic music. You might know me from the Steorn images + video taken at the Dublin 2009 Steorn demonstration (PESN). I also visited the Viktor Schauberger museum (flickr) and the Tesla Museum in 2010 (flickr). I’m reaching out to you guys at PESN to help me get to the Renaissance Charge April 10-12th conference in the United Kingdom. If you donate to my crowdfunding campaign, you can also get electronic music in MP3/FLAC format as a bonus.

I’ve been interested in Free Energy as a source of inspiration for the past decade, and have tried to include as many references to FE material as possible in my music. Lackluster Indiegogo campaign: Merck Unboxing Video. To purchase 145 Lackluster CDs to re-sell them. Update #4: We have reached our initial goal of $600 in the Lackluster Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign to reclaim lost CDs from a defunct record label.

To purchase 145 Lackluster CDs to re-sell them.

Thanks to each and every one of you, it's been a wild ride so far. So! We're making it even wilder! In the age-old tradition of crowdfunding campaigns, we are announcing stretch goals. We're already there, so this is your opportunity to score more perks just by taking part in the campaign! Now that U-Cover is taken care of, thanks to all of you, we're focusing our sights on the United Kingdom next. Hydrogen: Next-Generation Supercapacitor-Powered Portable Speaker. Funding ends Nov 13, 2014 at 11:59pm PDT Blueshift speakers charge in five minutes.

Hydrogen: Next-Generation Supercapacitor-Powered Portable Speaker

Fund medical treatments for people around the world. The Ocean Cleanup, developing technologies to extract, prevent and intercept plastic pollution. Brickstarter. FundedByMe — The fastest-growing crowd investment platform connecting investors and entrepreneurs. Community Center Earthship: Flower Prototype - Malawi by Michael Reynolds.

Kickstarter Collections Projects We Love Trending Nearly Funded Just Launched Everything Categories.

Community Center Earthship: Flower Prototype - Malawi by Michael Reynolds

To change the world, we have to change the car. Wishbone. The EZ-EV Open Source Electric Kit Car. This will be a very simple-to-assemble three-wheel all-electric kit car that anybody could build and maintain.

The EZ-EV Open Source Electric Kit Car

Short Summary Let's improve our economy, our national security and our environment all in one simple step - by driving electric! $1.5T per year is leaving our economy for foreign oil and military support and that is way too much ( Let's get off foreign oil and use local electrons to move us around. This is not as much of a technical challenge as a political one and a public awareness issue - and that's where crowd funding can make a difference. Here's a recent article called "Electric Vehicles Strengthen US Competitiveness" - What We Need & What You Get I've already built a prototype and it works well. The main focus is the frame design. The Impact Not even counting the big stuff like Global Warming and the fate of future generations, there is war, terrorism and more oil spills.

Fund Meaningful Travel Experiences. Small-business funding platform Kabbage wins CloudBeat’s Innovation Showdown. Seven companies presented on stage today, but only one won CloudBeat 2012′s Innovation Showdown.

Small-business funding platform Kabbage wins CloudBeat’s Innovation Showdown

That was Kabbage, a small-business funding platform that uses cloud power to connect companies with cash. “The average business has grown by 266 percent since they’ve started using us,” Rob Frohwein, CEO and co-founder of Kabbage, said on stage during his presentation. The CloudBeat Innovation Showdown, sponsored by Silicon Valley Bank, featured seven finalists from more than 200 applicants that hope to disrupt business using cloud-based technologies. Upon winning, we asked Frohwein (pictured, far left) why his company potentially beat out the other promising finalists. He suggested it might be relatability and appreciation to small businesses and startups, which often don’t get off the ground because loans or funding don’t come through. [Gimp-developer] 3 months of Flattr, a summary. From: Michael Schumacher <schumaml gmx de>To: gimp-developer-list gnome org, gimp-user-list gnome orgSubject: [Gimp-developer] 3 months of Flattr, a summaryDate: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 01:27:27 +0200 Moin, three months ago, on 2012-07-16, the Flattr button on went public.

[Gimp-developer] 3 months of Flattr, a summary

Its corresponding Flattr thing had already existed a little while longer (since the beginning of June) to cater to a specific donation request. FreedomSponsors. Freedomsponsors Blog. Gittip - Personal Funding. Personal Funding. What Is Gittip?

Personal Funding

Gittip is a way to give small weekly cash gifts to people you love and are inspired by. Gifts are weekly. The intention is for people to depend on money received through Gittip in order to pay their bills, and bills are recurring. Gifts come with no strings attached. You don't know exactly where your gifts come from, and the maximum gift from one person to another is $100 per week. Gifts are public. Give by answering Who inspires you? Details Gifts are distributed every Thursday. For example, let's say that you have $2.00 in your account, and you are set up to give $1.00 each to 20 people.

. $ 1.00 x 20 people $20.00 total gittips -$ 2.00 current balance $18.00 amount needed +$ 0.30 fee $18.30 / .971 fee $18.85 amount to charge -$18.00 $ 0.85 total fee.