Green Dinners

Problem: The problem in today's world is that we strongly rely on a economic and financial system which is totally unreliable [20], unstable [21], unfair [22] and which enables ecological disasters. It lacks built-in responsibility for the participants to the consequences of their actions. Money and greed cause wars, poverty and starvation. Furthermore, units of currency have deliberately been decoupled from well-established units of measurement. There is most certainly not a SI-defined [5] unit for...

Action: Our current economic system is held responsible for a series of ecological disasters. This system is also suffering from instability and experts are awaiting its full demise. In this paper we have identified the root of these problems: the monetary unit that is floating and undefined, and economic system lacking optimisation for recycling and energy scarcity. Instead of proposing changes to the current system, we have unrolled the design of an alternative: Rainbow Trading and the RGB unit o...

Problem: In the past, native bees and feral honey bees could meet all of a farmer’s pollination needs for orchards, berry patches, squash and melons, vegetable seed, sunflowers, and other insect-pollinated crops. These farms were relatively small and close to areas of natural habitat that harbored adequate numbers of pollinators to accomplish the task that now requires imported colonies of honey bees. Nearby natural areas also served as a ready source of new pollinators that could re-colonize farms an...

Action: The purpose of these guidelines is to provide information about native bees and their habitat requirements so that farmers can manage the land around their fields to provide the greatest advantage for these crop pollinators. These guidelines will help growers and conservationists:   understand how simple changes to farm practices can benefit native pollinat...

Problem: Conservation networks are often poorly designed and run. They can suffer from a lack of a clear compelling purpose, appropriately skilled leadership, poor recruiting of membership, badly designed activities, lack of measurement and evaluation of impact, lack of documentation of lessons learned, and under funding.  

Action: This document is a handbook designed to help network sponsors and leaders design, launch, and operate effective conservation networks. The seven standards are conditions that we have found to be essential for success. For each standard we have briefly described practices that can help ensure that a network meets that particular condition f...

Problem: Humanity is in need of a holistic education, to fully empower its children to address the needs of the time.

Action: This resource presents an introduction to Waldorf Education.

Problem: The Challenge:  implementing an efficient and effective program to provide free support for many working groups with many projects. Long-standing problems such as declining natural resources and deteriorating watersheds, prove how challenging it is to build effective collaboration across governments, civic groups, and business. To address this, new independent programs are being formed to focus collaboration by several agencies on a specific problem.  Suddenly, people in different agencies an...

Action: Move from talk to action, effectively. Design, implement, and deliver a web-based collaboration workspace to help a community of working groups to manage their strategic program and to measure their progress toward mandated goals. The S4S workspace is not a free-form environment; it provides structured collaboration with accountability. This business-like approach supports: designing strategy and process, tracking internal and external projects, coordinating participants, reporting progress, ...

Problem: The establishment of land as private property is illegal (violates natural law, and the law of common ownership), and is also destructive on all of these levels: environmental, social, economic, and community.  The real estate industry has destroyed social and economic fabric of the community, while perverting the original intent of land use for the common good.

Action: To present the real picture of what our current real estate industry is doing, while promoting an healthy alternative to begin healing both the community of humanity and the nature-human relationship.

Problem: Calle was created to provide educational and social support to the residents of the favela Tabajaras located in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro. Managed primarily by international volunteers, the idea of Calle provided a learning environment for the residents in a public space. Sadness, fear, and the lack of education negatively affect the residents of low income communities. In order to induce a non-violent revolution, the unique skills of international volunteers, combined with a safe place for ...

Action: - Teaching English, Spanish, and art - Hosting community parties and barbecues - Providing a safe environment for children and adults

Problem: Over the past several years, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have realized that the creation of formal protected areas may not be sufficient to protect ocean and coastal biodiversity, particularly in areas where rights have already been granted to specific owners and users. To address this, NGOs are increasingly using Marine Conservation Agreements (MCAs) to complement other marine and coastal protection efforts.

Action: Marine Conservation Agreements include any formal or informal understanding between two or more parties in which the parties obligate themselves, for an exchange of benefits, to take certain actions, refrain from certain actions, or transfer certain rights and responsibilities to achieve agreed upon ocean or coastal conservation goals. The summary table below identifies the major elements and variables of MCAs. MCAs can be entered into by governments, communities, private entities, and pri...

Problem: Mismanaged conflict can produce erosion of trust, intense fear, defensiveness and agression, which may escalate into  violent acts, and war. 

Action: Implement an inter-departmental integration of empathy into government as the cornerstone of all government action and policy (through a division in a Department of Peace if one is created) which will positively affect every sector of society using strategies such as: 1. Implement specific methods for making empathy integral to all operations, particularly for decisions about use of economic, natural and human resources  2. Offer coaching, conflict resolution, and training in empathy skills t...

Problem: To provide public benefits over the long term, federal and state legislatures created conservation easements to provide a method of protecting natural and cultural resources on privately owned lands. In order to achieve this goal, land trusts must draft enforceable conservation easements that yield a public benefit. In addition, land trusts must draft conservation easements of the highest quality in order for private landowners to view them as attractive options.

Action: This coursecovers Practices 8G, Project Planning, 9E, Easement Drafting and 11B, Baseline Documentation Report, and forms the foundation for negotiating and drafting enforceable conservation easements and their supporting baseline documentation. All three practices discussed in this course, when combined, create a s...