Global LifeScience Ambassadors
Transformation through Empowerment and Education
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." - Mahatma Gandhi The World Natural LifeScience University (WNLSU) now seeks 10 million Global LifeScience ™ Ambassadors worldwide. Our goal is to make a global shift from war ...learn more
GROUP DETAILS
Created: Jan 12, 2008
Updated: Jun 24, 2008
Membership: Open To Apply
Private
Open Sustainability Network
The goal of the Open Sustainability Network is to build a unified collection of relevant online tools and practices to help students and teachers build effective programs in appropriate technology and social entrepreneurship. Specifically, the OSN is focused on impacting the training of future innovators and managers who will need to effectively tackle a set of profound global challenges through the creation, commercialization and institutionalization of sustainable enterprise and clean technologies.
Groups and people actively supporting OSN include:- Appropedia (the wiki for sustainability and international development)
- Catalytic Communities (CatComm.org)
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Reading on OSN include:
- Leveraging Information Technology, Social Entrepreneurship, and Global Collaboration for Just Sustainable Development by Pearce, Grafman, Colledge and Legg
Portals that seem suitable to join this effort (and some of these are already in discussion or actively supporting the initiative) include:
- Appropedia
- The University Network for Social Entrepreneurship
- OpenCourseWare
- Connexions
- World Bank Development Marketplace
- Wikipedia
- The Sustainability Knowledge Network
- NextBillion.net
- Beyond Grey Pinstripes
- The Forum on Science and Innovation for Sustainable Development
- The International Journal For Service Learning in Engineering
- BME Source
- OpenWetWare
- BoP Network
- WiserEarth
