Xerces Society Solutions

Problem: Chemical pollution in the home

Action: Put a stop to buying chemical cleaning productsby Michael Smith (Veshengro)Instead of buying and using chemical cleaning products use vinegar instead.Often it is said that you should use white vinegar for this only but the truth is that all vinegar, including the brewed malt vinegar, the brown one, that is common in Britain. White spirit vinegar, too, can be used.Vinegar is great for cleaning floors, windows, mirrors, and laundry. It whitens, disinfects, freshens and softens all colors of lau...

Problem: Wasted paper at home and in offices,.etc.

Action: Rescued Paper Notebooksby Michael SmithThis is a little DIY project of what to do with all those letters and photocopies and such that are just one side used.If you work in an office or otherwise come across one side used only letter paper regularly – I also tend to get that spam post a lot with a covering letter that is blank on the other and also here are still press releases g...

Problem: Human Factor Human Communication, Collaboration, Organization Sustainability of a collaboration process Sustainability of projects. Decision taking, human resources management, resources management. Strategy thinking. Quality of human experience along project, team or organization activities.          

Action: Multidimensional Human Factor Management (MDHFM) by Luis Daniel Maldonado Fonken "Principles, tools, quality, skills and know how for future human organizations and companies." .Helps you design collaboration environments, process and skills. .Apply nature principles, elements. .Improve strategic thinking, process, decisions and resources management. .Empower individuals, start up and develop own dreams. .Activates human potentiality and capacity. .Help you cocreate a human sustainable coll...

Action: Join hyperlocavore.com to find or start a yard share or group garden in your town. CSAs and community gardens fill up fast. Organic is expensive! Form a group with your neighbors,friends and family and grow your own!Our vision: healthy kids who love the smell of dirt, blocks with foreclosed homes becoming vibrant neighborhoods, plates full of delicious food at co...

Problem: The problem is inefficiency of land use.  The extinction of species due to habitat loss necessitates the creation of an effective system of protected areas, including restoration of degraded land.  Land currently used for agriculture is at the pressure of development meaning less land to produce food on.  Land in urban areas is underutilized being generally used only for aesthetic purposes and often requiring large inputs of water and toxic chemicals such as fertilizer and pesticides.  If thi...

Problem: It is estimated that there are 51 million fishermen in the world of whom 50 million are small-scale, subsistence, or artisanal operators mainly living and working in the developing world. Unfortunately, the common-property fish resources that these fishermen depend upon for their livelihood are in a precarious state. Why do we find ourselves in this critical situation and what can we do to correct it? Researchers and stakeholders are actively searching for new forms of fishery management, and...

Action: One of the difficulties in planning and implementing co-management is the lack of specific direction on 'how to do it'. There are a number of different activities and interventions in the process of community-based co-management. While there are a number of very good publications (many often difficult to obtain, especially in a developing country) which discuss individual activities and components of the process of community-based co-management, there is no single publication which provides a...

Problem: Government is the organizing instrument of society and to make sure that it is acting in the best interests of its citizens, it is managed and controlled by representatives of the citizens who are directly accountable for their performance to the citizens: Representative Government.How to create and structure such a representative government hasn't totally eluded people to date but it could do with some improving.Many of the existing structures carry burdens of historical trappings, most ofte...

Action: Small groups in every constituency, in every nation, must organize now around a standard, new, simple platform and present themselves for election on that platform at every opportunity.The consistent platform will enable and speed the education of the citizenry of all nations, regions and communities. Those who do not wish to stand for office can be powerful in demanding that anyone they vote for adopt the Standards of LIFE as part of their own agenda and commit to promoting them in any way t...