Problem: O projeto começou com uma pequena uma oficina de percussão. Um surdo e uma caixa de guerra foram suficiente para empolgar os cinco alunos existentes. Depois, com uma doação de instrumentos do Grupo Cultural Oju Dudu, resolvemos ampliar a oficinas com uma convocação através de cartazes por toda comunidade. Foi enorme a procura, aí se fez necessário colocar um instrutor para implementar a oficina e obter melhores resultados. Escrevemos um projeto mais abrangentes com o nome de Batucada Cidadã, ...

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Problem: How to combine educational software and an operating system in an affordable package that can run on even low-end PC's.

Problem: How to combine educational software and an operating system in an affordable package that can run on even low-end PC's.

Problem: Em 1995, na comunidade de Jacarezinho, no quarto andar da igreja Metodista na Rua João Pinto número 13, a Escola Pequeno Céu foi aberta para as crianças da comunidade. Localizada nas favelas do Rio de Janeiro e cercada por centros industriais, Jacarezinho apresenta alta incidência de crimes violentos e tráfico de drogas. Com uma população de aproximadamente 140.000 pessoas, há cerca de 500 crianças carentes com menos de sete anos idade todos os anos.   O pastor Clóvis aliou a necessidade de ...

Action: Havia a intenção de fundar uma creche, mas a falta de recurpossibilitou somente a formação de uma escolinha para alfabetização infantil. Serviços Oferecido: Alfabetização infantil, noções de saúde e cidadania.

Problem: Corporate/Special interests control the legislature of the USA. The convention clause of the US Constitution was written to prevent this. All fifty states have applied for the Article V Convention, the trick is to get this idea of coming together in a convention to a tipping-point majority of Americans. A popular documentary can do this. http://www.articlev.org  

Action: We have the green light from UCSB, we have three parliamentarians to administer Robert's Rules of Order to the deliberative assembly, and we have a long list of college students ready to participate.

Problem: Small cities and towns across America face many challenges. Towns that are close to significant natural resource amenities face increasing development pressures from urban professionals plying their trades via the Internet and enjoying the great outdoors, and from burgeoning retirement populations seeking the high quality, low stress way of life found in these picturesque and desirable places. Other communities suffer from youth exodus, crumbling infrastructure and antiquated economies, and a...

Action: A community is a special place full of stories of the people who live there. Collectively, these stories are a big part of the community’s character: its heart and soul. In a way, planning is like writing the next chapter in a community’s story. As we enter the 21st century, there are signs that citizens expect to have a greater role in community decisions. In The Next Form of American Democracy, Matt Leighninger wrote, “[C]itizens seem better at governing, and worse at being governed, than e...

Problem: A local entrepreneur, whether from the private sector, a nongovernmental organization (NGO), or even government entity, who is considering entering the ecotourism business and who wants to assess the viability of this option in order to minimize commercial risk and maximize the chances of success.

Action: This manual is divided into three sections, each representing a phase in the assessment, planning, and making operational of an ecotourism business. Section 1, Ecotourism Assessment, will help the reader to determine whether viable ecotourism opportunities exist at a site or if they can be developed either with avail...

Problem: OUR CURRENT POWER GENERATION SYSTEM USES AN UNSUSTAINABLE MODEL, THAT HAS LED MANKIND INTO THE WRONG PATH     The world needs more electricity in the next 30 years. The US will grow its capacity, but China and India who are currently under supplied, are carrying a very rapid aggressive expansion policy to generate more than they currently produce. Current supply models are centralized, generate electricity using very large plants from multiple sources of energy, both non-renewable and renewab...

Action:  A DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION SYSTEM WOULD CORRECT THE PATH OF MANKIND AND ESTABLISH A MORE EQUITABLE WORLD ORDER   Having a stand alone, small electrical power generators based on Solar energy for the home, business, and light weigh industry would provide everyone, all over the world, the possibility of having modern living comforts and power tools to produce goods and services, that create well being. The small stand alone power generator would allow people in Asia, Africa, Latin America ...

Problem: As efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions increase, so do the sources of ‘carbon financing’ and the size of the international ‘carbon market’. Greenhouse gas abatement activities can have both beneficial and detrimental impacts on the communities in which they operate. For this reason, it is vital that Indigenous communities have accurate information about carbon financing and carbon market processes at the outset – to help them make informed decisions and choices about activities that wo...

Action: This is a short guide for Northern Indigenous Australians on the impacts of and responses to climate change, particularly market and financial mechanisms for reducing greenhouse gas emissions (often referred to as the ‘carbon market’, ‘emissions trading’ and/or ‘carbon financing’). The guide is intended as a first edition: comments, case studies and more information would be most welcome – please contact ingrid@iisd.org, Review Group: Conservation Review