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Open Source Blueprint for a Sustainable Civilization One Community is open source project-launch blueprinting and free-sharing everything needed to simultaneously address all the challenges currently facing humanity and build 7 different sustainable village prototypes for sharing it. The 7 village prototypes will be the first of a global cooperative of self-replicating teacher/demonstration hubs purposed to share and spread this model for comprehensive sustainability and collaborative global change for The Highest Good of All. Our initial focus is the following areas: More specifically, we are designing and free-sharing everything needed for duplication of each component and/or all of One Community including: Everything we do is created without patents, copyrights, or limitations of use of any kind.
The open source way Open exchange We can learn more from each other when information is open. A free exchange of ideas is critical to creating an environment where people are allowed to learn and use existing information toward creating new ideas. Participation Search Whipcar for Montreal, canada Dear customers and friends, When we launched WhipCar in April 2010, we embarked on a very exciting mission. We were the first to offer car owners the chance to make better use of their cars and offset the rising costs of motoring by renting to their neighbours. Black LGBT Feminist Confronts Dr. Umar Johnson & Gets Schooled On The Black Struggle - Urban Intellectuals Not many in the black community lay down the truth like Dr. Umar Johnson has done over the years. Nevertheless, everyone doesn’t love everything that comes out of his mouth. Specifically, many in the feminist and LGBT community find his speech offensive and demeaning to the woman’s movement and the gay community. Fortunately for us, video was captured during a Q&A session where a black LGBT feminist confronted Dr. Johnson over some of his rhetoric and what she called “hate” speech towards women and the LGBT community.
50 Life Hacks to Simplify your World Life hacks are little ways to make our lives easier. These low-budget tips and trick can help you organize and de-clutter space; prolong and preserve your products; or teach you something (e.g., tie a full Windsor) that you simply did not know before. Most of these came from a great post on tumblr. There is also a great subreddit ‘r/lifehacks‘ with some fantastic tips as well. 20.
Two fantastic years of crowdfunding for the platform Ulule A few weeks ago, one of the European crowdfunding leaders celebrated their two year anniversary. Alexandre Boucherot, co-founder and CEO of Ulule takes us back to the very beginning of this adventure and gives an outlook on 2013. Launched in 2010 in France and now available in 6 languages, with 1500 projects financed and more than 4 million Euros collected, Ulule is an undisputed leader of participative financing in Europe using a reward-based model. Their progress illustrates what an intense year it has been for crowdfunding: several projects collected record sums on Kickstarter, the American JOBS act politicized the subject by promoting equity, the sector was restructured around several professional companies, and, altogether, Ulule collected 3 million dollars in 2012, which is double the sum collected in 2011. With the crowdfunding market growing and beginning to become a real alternative to traditional financing, its market is becoming more populated and diverse.
50 Animated Gifs for Every Situation Ever If a picture is worth a thousand words, then an animated gif must be worth some kind of number I can’t even begin to comprehend. If you’ve ever found yourself browsing the Internet and felt compelled to respond with a witty reply, only to come up: wow, mind. blown., golf clap, etc. Then these animated gifs are for you! With the simple copy and paste of one of the images below you can make your feelings resonate while bathing in the adulation of Internet pundits the world over. This is the Sifter’s seventh installment of the Awesome Animated Gif Series. If you’re a fan of animated gifs you may want to check out the other installments for more animated excellence. Crowdfunding the commons Crowdfunding + distributed collaboration Goteo is a social network for crowdfunding and distributed collaboration (services, infrastructures, microtasks and other resources) for encouraging the independent development of creative and innovative initiatives that contribute to the common good, free knowledge, and open code. We support projects with social, cultural, scientific, educational, technological, or ecological objectives that generate new opportunities for the improvement of society and the enrichment of community goods and resources.