Difference between revisions of "Related Social Endeavours"

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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

• Gaia University - contributes to co-create, with myriad partners, a thriving ecosocial economy in which millions can make their livings independent of the current ecosocially destructive dominant culture.
• [www.unipaz.org.br UNIPAZ] - Holistic International University, Brazil
• 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.
• The Institute of Noetic Sciences - Broadening our knowledge of the nature and potentials of mind and consciousness and applying that knowledge to enhancing human well-being and the quality of life on the planet.
• 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.