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Michael Swaine. Felon Friendly Employer List. If this is your first time visiting Jobs For Felons Hub, we know that you're struggling to find employment.

Felon Friendly Employer List

We understand how frustrating this is and want you to know that every month we have 30,000+ people just like you visiting our website looking for work with a felony on their record. Free online course lets you study superheroes with Stan Lee - CNET. The next evolution in wireless networking holds promises of self-driving cars and movies that download in the blink of an eye. 5G is big at this year's Mobile World Congress, but don't expect it until 2020.

Free online course lets you study superheroes with Stan Lee - CNET

How Four Women In An RV Plan To Change Young Girls' Lives. If you could get an 11-year-old girl to throw her hands in the air and shout, "Prototype!

How Four Women In An RV Plan To Change Young Girls' Lives

" or stand on a chair and declare her personal mission statement, you’d want to bottle that formula for confident enthusiasm. Or, you’d drive it across the country in an RV and take it to young women’s communities around the country, like four students at Stanford University plan to do this summer. Towards a Commons-Based Political Economy: Rethinking State, Market and Civil Society. Michel Bauwens, John Restakis and Kevin Flanagan The history of political and economic organization within capitalism has been the recurring fight over the balance of power between the state and the market, which has ended in a radical subordination of the state and the social good to private markets interests.

Towards a Commons-Based Political Economy: Rethinking State, Market and Civil Society

But the alternative may no longer be a return to statism and a ‘strong state’ but rather a set of commons-centric alternatives based on the principles of co-operation and economic democracy Indeed, the systemic crisis of 2008 has led to the emergence of alternative visions that need to be integrated in a radical vision of transition to a new kind of political economy. The first emergence is that of commons-oriented peer production, which allow local and global open knowledge, software and design communities to create shared commons that create direct use value for society, but also potentially powerful economic systems.

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Top 40 Platforms for Crowdfunding Social Change. This post is a guest blog by Josef Davies-Coates and it originally appeared on the P2P Foundation blog.

Top 40 Platforms for Crowdfunding Social Change

Crowdfunding is a new word for an old idea. The Oxford English dictionary defines it as “the practice of funding a project or venture by raising many small amounts of money from a large number of people, typically via the Internet”. Crowdfunding’s poster child, Kickstarter, launched in April 2009. It wasn’t the first online crowdfunding platform (ArtistShare launched in 2003), but it was the first to become widely known and scale. In just 3 and a half years Kickstarter has helped over 32,000 projects raise a total of over $350 million. Your Village Noticeboard. Five things I wish I'd known before starting a crowdfunding campaign.

Alternative energy

Jobs for Felons. Arts-Based Education. Over the past several months hundreds of kids have been participating in different, fun activities at Skateistan in Kabul.

Arts-Based Education

They are now in the sixth week of their semester, which is on the topic of Nature and Natural Resources. In the first few weeks they learned about nature, natural resources, finished products, renewable and nonrenewable resources. In order to get awareness of the beautiful nature around them, they went to different green spaces in Kabul and drew the nature.

Then as a sample of natural resource they worked with paper, making collages and working on paper weaving. CoderDojo. A Musical Instrument That Generates Power When You Play It. How to Turn Your School Into a Maker Haven. Urgent Evoke - A crash course in changing the world. Taking On Adam Smith (and Karl Marx) Geoff Mulgan: A short intro to the Studio School. John Hunter: Teaching with the World Peace Game. A Brief History of Doing Well by Doing Good - Video. Public Policies as a Framework for Development of Social Entrepreneurship in Serbia. Reduced.

Public Policies as a Framework for Development of Social Entrepreneurship in Serbia

Green Bronx Machine. Music Resource Center.

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Vertical farming. Www.eisenmann.us.com/Portals/133998/docs/eisenmann - sustainability in an urban environment through anaerobic digestion.pdf. Let's Make This Clear: Vertical Farms Don't Make Sense. The Urban Farming Guys. Who are we?

The Urban Farming Guys

We are the urban experiment… the seed that died and went into the ground.

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IdeaHub. Micro-Windmill Invention Could Charge Cell Phone Batteries, Even Homes. Photo Credit: Tomasz Sienicki/Wikimedia Commons January 13, 2014 | Like this article?

Micro-Windmill Invention Could Charge Cell Phone Batteries, Even Homes

Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. Could micro-windmills be the wave of the future? The University of Texas at Arlington announced Friday that researchers at the school have designed a mini-windmill to generate home energy and cell phone batteries. Peru To Provide Free Solar Power To 2 Million Of Its Poorest Residents By 2016. Peru has initiated a program that will provide more than 2 million of its poorest residents with electricity -- for free. 'The National Photovoltaic Household Electrification Program' began on July 8, when 1,601 solar panels were installed in the Contumaza province of the country, CleanTechnica.com reported.

Peru To Provide Free Solar Power To 2 Million Of Its Poorest Residents By 2016

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Afterschool/Saturday Acadamy like programs. Community Centre & Social Programs.