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Created: Feb 22, 2008

Updated: Oct 19, 2009

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Updated: about 1 month ago
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Publisher: Development Voyage
Review Group: Conservation Review, FLOSS
Updated: about 1 month ago
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7 Stages to Sustainability
A Catalyst for Community-led Social Action
Problem: This LOCALLY DRIVEN SOLUTION PROCESS is NON ISSUE SPECIFIC.   Target issues may include but  are not limited to POVERTY, CLIMATE CHANGE, PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUES, ENVIRONMENTAL SCARCITY/ DEVASTATION. Whether fighting AIDS in Zimbabwe, saving rain forests in Senegal, or building healthy, sustainable communities in the USA; "7 Stages to Sustainability" empowers local and global "Partners In Empowerment" (PIE) to address locally identified threats to human and environmental security ...

Action: 1. Identify and engage Partners In Empowerment™ (local and global): community members, collaborating organizations, socially conscious businesses & other stakeholders dedicated to improving human and environmental security.   * More specifically, "7 Stages to Sustainability" emphases six synergistic social and economic sectors:       Collaborating Nonprofits– Who: Comm...
Publisher: Empowerment Works!
Updated: 4 months ago
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SWEEP
Small Wind Environmental Energy Project
Problem: Until recently, small wind technologies and devices were not available for small rural and homestead electricity-generating applications.

Action: SWEEP --- Small Wind Environmental Energy Project We are gathering founding members and crew for this small wind renewable energy development project on five rural acres of the Mendocino coast. This project is in early-stage development of visioning, prototyping and organizing those wishing to explore small wind renewable energy, rural wind farming techniques and flying wind turbines.
Publisher: Laurel Krause