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For a sustainable and desirable future

For a sustainable and desirable future

High Fives Nonprofit Foundation Sustainable Economies Resources - The Donella Meadows Institute Below you will find an ever-growing collection of resources that dive deeper into the issues our communities are tackling and the solutions that are making for healthier, stronger, and more resilient economies. Explore them to learn more about the many facets of a sustainable economy! Vermont’s New Economy: A look at the New Economy by the numbers This publication focuses on the emergence of the New Economy here in Vermont, USA by exploring both numbers and stories from across the state. The numbers provide a snapshot of how Vermont is doing, while the accompanying stories illustrate some of the innovative approaches already working here. “Creating Local Wealth” by Michael Shuman The following talk by Michael Shuman was presented as the kickoff event of Vermont’s New Economy Week 2013. Books + Publications There are lots of great title out there about sustainable economy topics from local currencies and cooperative business models to regional food systems and community energy networks.

High Fives Non-Profit Foundation A US Manufacturer that focuses on face-gear, Phunkshun Wear combines technical applications, top quality fabrics milled in the USA, and a seemingly endless amount of graphic options in their production. Their focus is on making a product that not only performs exceptionally well in winter weather, but also looks great and lasts. Phunkshun Wear has pledged to donate $0.05 every mask sold during the 2015 year to the High Fives Foundation. Jimmy Beans Wool started in Truckee, CA after Laura and Doug Zander needed an escape from the crazy pace of Silicon Valley. Lone Mountain Printing has become a leader in screen-printing in Montana. Inspired by fresh, regionally sourced ingredients, Rocker embodies the unique seasonality and legacy of Squaw Valley’s big mountains. Warren Pieces is tucked away at the edge of the Freeman Brook and Flat Iron Road in historic Warren Village, Vermont, an incredible new business has been born.

Not The Answer Surfrider's Not the Answer campaign is focused on opposing the expansion of offshore drilling in the United States. Surfrider chapters across the country are advocating for legislation and agency decisions that will prohibit the exploration, development, or production of oil and gas in state and federal waters. Current priorities of the Not the Answer campaign include: 1) Influencing the upcoming Five Year OCS Drilling Plan for 2017-2022; 2) Opposing federal legislation that would expand offshore drilling into new areas; 3) Opposing proposed seismic exploration for oil and gas resources off the Mid- and South Atlantic coasts; 4) Supporting state and federal moratoria on offshore oil and gas development; 5) Participating in Hands Across the Sand events to demonstrate grassroots support for protecting our coasts from offshore drilling. (Photo Credit: Angie Gustavson: Volusia-Flagler Chapter) More Information For decades our coasts were protected from offshore oil drilling.

Swatch TimeLine by The North Face StokeLab | Your Source for all things Stoke | Action Sports, Adventure Travel, Athletes, Profiles, Art, Lifestyle Patents What is a patent? A patent is an intellectual property right granted by the Government of the United States of America to an inventor “to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling the invention throughout the United States or importing the invention into the United States” for a limited time in exchange for public disclosure of the invention when the patent is granted. There are three types of patents. View the different types of patent applications. Patent Examiner Technical Training Program The USPTO has instituted a Patent Examiner Technical Training Program which formalizes the process for seeking public assistance in providing technical training to patent examiners. Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH); The Fast Track Examination of Applications

Online Materials Information Resource - MatWeb Wall Street: You've Got Hate Mail Some 400 Occupy Wall Street protesters got into costume Friday, but the occasion wasn’t an early observance of the beloved pagan-inspired holiday that is Halloween. Rather, the messengers from among OWS ranks paid visits to big bank headquarters in Manhattan to deliver mail from thousands of Americans who claim to have been negatively impacted by the financial shenanigans that contributed to the Great Recession. AP via CBS News: One group of protesters headed down a Fifth Avenue sidewalk, chanting, “You’ve got mail! You’ve got mail!” About 50 police officers accompanied them, on foot and in vehicles. The marchers stopped at a Citigroup office on Park Avenue. More Below the Ad If you have trouble leaving a comment, review this help page.

See-through church, Limburg/Belgium by Gijs Van Vaerenbergh | Architecture Lab Project Details: Location: Limburg, Belgium Type: Cultural - Public Architects: Gijs Van Vaerenbergh - www.gijsvanvaerenbergh.com Photos: Kristof Vrancken / Z33 – Mine Daelemans photo by Kristof Vrancken / Z33 The church is a part of the Z-OUT project of Z33, house for contemporary art based in Hasselt, Belgium. Z-OUT is an ambitious longterm art in public space project that will be realised on different locations in the Flemish region of Limburg over the next five years. photo by Kristof Vrancken The church is 10 meters high and is made of 100 layers and 2000 columns of steel. The design of the church is based on the architecture of the multitude of churches in the region, but through the use of horizontal plates, the concept of the traditional church is transformed into a transparent object of art. photo by Mine Dalemans

The Whole Earth Disk: An Iconic Image of the Space Age Earth from Apollo 17. NASA Image #AS17-148-22727 Who has not seen the bright blue and white image of the Earth, swaddled in clouds and looking inviting, in numerous places and in various settings? Taken by the Apollo 17 astronauts on December 7, 1972, this photograph is one of the most widely distributed images in existence. It was the best one taken by these astronauts of a fully lit Earth, as the astronauts had the Sun behind them when they took the image. As early as 1966, environmental activist Stewart Brand began a campaign for NASA to release an image of the whole Earth in space. To capture this iconic image the astronaut/photographer used a 70-millimeter Hasselblad camera with an 80-millimeter lens. Stewart Brand put the photograph on the cover of his Whole Earth Catalog. Earthrise as seen from Apollo 8 spacecraft while orbiting the Moon in December, 1968. Roger D. Tags: Apollo, Earth, imagery, Moon, Space, spaceflight

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