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==Non-Formal Educational Organizations== | ==Non-Formal Educational Organizations== | ||
*[http://www.seeducation.org/ Seeducation] - Youth Organization. Helps people and organisation make money from doing good. Training, Coaching and Consulting. | *[http://www.seeducation.org/ Seeducation] - Youth Organization. Helps people and organisation make money from doing good. Training, Coaching and Consulting. | ||
| − | *[http://www.se-ed.co.uk/ SEEd] - Sustainability and Environmental Education (SEEd) is a charity organization that identifies, promotes | + | *[http://www.se-ed.co.uk/ SEEd] - Sustainability and Environmental Education (SEEd) is a charity organization that identifies, promotes and supports environmental education and education for sustainable development in the UK. |
==Innovative Research Institutions== | ==Innovative Research Institutions== | ||
Revision as of 15:45, 2 December 2011
Contents
Directories of Communities, Eco-Villages
- Global Ecovillage Network, (GEN) - "A growing network of sustainable communities, ecovillages, transition town initiatives, intentional communities, and ecologically-minded individuals worldwide."
- Intentional Community, Fellowship for Intentional Community, Communities Directory - "Promoting Community Living and Cooperative Lifestyles Across North America"
- Cohousing - "Cohousing communities bring together the value of private homes with the benefits of more sustainable living."
- The Federation of Egalitarian Communities (FEC) - "A union of egalitarian communities which have joined together in our common struggle to create a lifestyle based on equality, cooperation, and harmony with the earth".
Non-Formal Educational Organizations
- Seeducation - Youth Organization. Helps people and organisation make money from doing good. Training, Coaching and Consulting.
- SEEd - Sustainability and Environmental Education (SEEd) is a charity organization that identifies, promotes and supports environmental education and education for sustainable development in the UK.
Innovative Research Institutions
- The Seasteading Institute - Creating libertarian ocean colonies, experimental governments.
- Foresight Institute - Promoting transformative technologies
- Singularity University - Leveraging the power of exponential technologies to solve humanity’s grand challenges
Social Platforms
- An FP7 SSH Programme - Support for Social Platform on Sustainable Lifestyles and NCP Networks
- Social Platform on Sustainable Lifestyles, PDF - Information Day on "Social Platform on Sustainable Lifestyles"
- SSH research: providing the insights for future solutions - EU FP7 funds for socio-economic sciences and the humanities (SSH)
Social Studies
- [Studies and Trends of Different Social Sub Communities, Interest Groups in Society] - TODO: find some research on this topic
- Beyond Folk Activism - Patri Friedman, Seasteading
Political Studies
- Toward sustainable communities: transition and transformations in environmental policy - Authors: Daniel A. Mazmanian, Michael E. Kraft
- Sustainable communities: the potential for eco-neighbourhoods - Authors: Hugh Barton
Risks and Benefits
- Privacy Protection for Social Networking Platforms - Adrienne Felt. University of Virginia.
- Life-logging Risk Assessment Final Report - Risks and benefits of emerging life-logging applications. European Network and information Security Agency (ENISA)
- Facebook tracking is under scrutiny - How Facebook tracks users across the Web
Conferances
- Foresight Institute Breakthrough Philanthropy - Presentation video available
- Planet Under Pressure 201 - Discussing solutions, at all scales, to move societies on to a sustainable pathway.
