Indian villagers tame floods

16 Aug 2005 14:17:56 +0100

By Zoe Cacanas in Bihar

Course beats the generation gap

27 May 2005 21:10:34 +0100

Chris Wertheim struggled at school. Dyslexia meant he did not learn to read and write until the age of 25, when he decided to teach himself using children's books. Now, at the age of 67, he has also learnt to research and communicate using the internet - taught by a teenager. He has picked up his IT skills with the Sixty Plus Intergenerational Computer Project in Kensington and Chelsea in ...

Empowering young mothers in Ethiopia

23 May 2005 20:03:57 +0100

It is the latest money-earner to help women enjoy a more secure and hopeful future. The small compound on the outskirts of the town where Mums for Mums is based is a hive of cottage industry. Cactus leaves, plentiful locally, are being turned into a variety of products in the kitchen. People have used cactus to feed animals during Ethiopia's recurrent droughts, helping to avert livestock los ...

In pictures: Villagers' Barefoot College

06 May 2005 09:48:17 +0100

These pictures were taken by villagers from the Indian state of Rajasthan. Most were illiterate, untrained in photography using simple cameras lent or given to them. They highlight the work of the innovative Barefoot College in the village of Tilonia. The emphasis is on villagers searching out traditional and new ways of bettering their lives.

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Friends of Gaviotas

22 Apr 2005 17:39:32 +0100

Gaviotas is a village of about 200 people in Colombia, South America. For three decades, Gaviotans - peasants, scientists, artists, and former street kids - have struggled to build an oasis of imagination and sustainability in the remote, barren savannas of eastern Colombia, an area ravaged by political terror. They have planted millions of trees, thus regenerating an indigenous rainforest. They ...

Technology Empowerment Network

17 Mar 2005 23:16:56 +0100

A Support Network for Pioneering Public Good Projects Technology Empowerment Network, TEN, is a virtual community of CEOs and other leaders who volunteer to help bridge the digital divide by supporting social entrepreneurs in under-served areas. TEN members offer their time, insight and expertise to help bring information technology to schools, businesses and civil society in poor commun ...

Communities and livelihoods

17 Mar 2005 23:13:02 +0100

Communities face unprecedented challenges to their livelihoods, their identities, their institutions, and their sense of place in the evolving global village. Will communities be able to cope with continued economic and ecological crises? Traditional approaches that promote high rates of economic growth have not led to sustained or evenly distributed benefits. What the world requires is a fundamen ...

Communities Directory: FIC Directory Online

17 Mar 2005 23:10:35 +0100

Welcome to the online Communities Directory, part of the Intentional Communities website, a project of the Fellowship for Intentional Community (FIC) (in partnership with other organizations).

Original Location: http://directory.ic.org/ ...

Intentional Communities Web Site

17 Mar 2005 23:09:18 +0100

Intentional Community is an inclusive term for ecovillages, cohousing, residential land trusts, communes, student co-ops, urban housing cooperatives and other related projects and dreams... This Web site serves the growing communities movement. We provide important information and access to crucial resources for seekers of community, existing and forming communities, and other friends of commun ...

Bioregionalism and community

17 Mar 2005 23:08:05 +0100

Bioregionalism and Community: A Call to Action by David Haenke David Haenke explains that bioregionalism picks up where environmentalism leaves off, challenging everyone to emphasize sustainability and define community to include the nonhuman as well. The North American bioregional movement has held biennial meetings since 1984 and is steadily building awareness o ...

WHO Healthy Cities Movement

17 Mar 2005 23:02:42 +0100
The WHO Healthy Cities Movement, initiated in response to deteriorating environment and health conditions associated with rapid urban growth, started as a small scale project of WHO's Regional Office for Europe to put into practice principles of Health for All at the local level, and local Agenda 21. Now a major movement involving thousands of cities throughout the world, the concept and approach ...

Community indicators - Redefining Progress

17 Mar 2005 23:00:14 +0100
A community indicators movement has arisen around the nation, as local government, business, and grassroots leaders seek better ways to measure progress, to engage community members in a dialogue about the future, and to change community outcomes. Currently, over 200 communities around the country--from Missoula, Montana, to Jacksonville, Florida--have developed sets of indicators that illuminate ...

ICLEI Local Agenda 21 Campaign

17 Mar 2005 22:57:59 +0100
Following the adoption of LA21 at the Earth Summit, ICLEI began organizing to ensure that this mandate would be used to advance sustainable development. In particular, ICLEI was concerned that LA21 processes be truly participatory and that they result in new commitments by municipalities and their communities to improve and extend urban services in a sustainable way. http://www.iclei.org/iclei/ ...

Melbourne Principles for Sustainable Cities

13 Mar 2005 21:21:46 +0100
The Melbourne Principles for Sustainable Cities have been developed to assist cities that wish to achieve this sustainable development objective.The Principles provide a simple set of statements on how a sustainable city would function. The Melbourne Principles are intended to guide thinking and provide a strategic framework for action.The Principles are not prescriptive.They allow cities to deve ...

Urban sustainability

13 Mar 2005 21:10:27 +0100
The UNEP has found that local authorities have an interest in Environmental Management Systems (EMSs) as a systematic tool to achieve urban sustainability, and improve their livability. From the Osaka-based International Environmental Technology Center, comes this here. (pdf-file) ...

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