WiserEarth API Developers
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The WiserEarth API is the ultimate resource for building web applications that help "Connect You to Communities of Action". It is a language and message format used by a remote application program to communicate with the WiserEarth control program to access or write information into our database. This group is a place for developers to share information, fin ...learn more
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CSI is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation created in 2004 by its founder, Mark W. McElroy. Its purpose is to conduct research, development, training, and consulting for, and with, companies around the world interested in achieving sustainability in the conduct of human affairs, especially their own. Of particular (but not exclusive) interest to us is sustainability in social learning. Some social learning or innovation environments, we believe, are more sustainable than others.
In this regard, CSI is largely an outgrowth of what McElroy refers to as the epistemological theory of sustainability - a school of sustainability theory which advocates strength in collective learning as a necessary condition for achieving sustainability in life. Improve the quality of social learning, we argue, and improvements in sustainability will follow; lower the quality, and the reverse will occur.
Thus, CSI's niche in the sustainability movement is at the intersection of social learning theory and sustainability. For us, the path to sustainability in the conduct of human affairs is paved with improvements in the way we collectively learn and in the reform, in particular, of corporate epistemologies, which all too often work against us.
