Commons

A Map: The True Size of Africa

 

During your daily activities, how much do you stop and think about just how big the world truly is? Recently Kai Krause, posted work on Creative Commons as a “contribution in the fight against rampant immappancy”- Immappancy being the idea that most people normally think of certain land masses as larger than they actually are.  

Submitted by DRT on Thu, 2012-01-05 13:56

The New Global Innovation Commons

 

As users can see, The Global Innovation Commons has gone through a face lift to make it more acceptable to international collaborators. However, Global Innovation Commons users will still have the ability to create many different experiences using the site.

Submitted by DRT on Thu, 2011-12-15 19:26

First step in doing anything is identifying the need.

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 2011-12-08 20:51

I'd like to help improve the site.  The first step is to ask if anyone thinks the site needs improving.  Please check out my Poll.

Plans to Apply Integral Accounting to the KRMEF Nepal Project

 

The Kevin Rohan Memorial Eco Foundation (KRMEF) created an eco-village which is striving to protect the local ecosystem while providing economic opportunities and education to the surrounding poor, disabled, and leper population.

Submitted by DLH on Wed, 2011-08-24 03:23

When the Art of Felting Intertwines 2 Worlds

 

In the summer of 2010, M•CAM team members Ken Dabkowski and Dr. David Martin ventured to Mongolia to initiate the Heritable Innovation Trust program. The Heritable Innovation Trust Program (H.I.T.) is the first non-property based means to document, protect, and steward indigenous and customary knowledge. Enkhtuya Tsend of the Mongolian National Business Incubator Federation introduced them to the members of two felting co-ops; one in Dalanzadgad (the Gobi Desert) and other in IkhTamir Soum, Arkhangai.

Submitted by DLH on Tue, 2011-08-16 15:40

Updates on Kevin Rohan Memorial Eco Foundation - by Kim Schreiber M-CAM Intern

KRMEF has been nominated for the Buckminster Fuller Challenge Award. Please click the link below for more information please visit: http://challenge.bfi.org/2011Semi_Finalist_PromotingHealthandtheEnvironment.

The foundation is busy working with local NGO leaders and grassroots organizations to plan a large seminar on biodynamic farming that is to take place in three different locations throughout Nepal this November.

Submitted by DLH on Tue, 2011-08-02 07:34

Integral Urban Ecovillage Challenge

Country or Countries Where Challenge Takes Place: 
United States

The challenge is to create a network of Integral Urban Ecovillages in the St. Louis Missouri region, as a model for emergency preparedness, distributed renewable power, food and water production, that is grid positive, more as an exporter of goods and services, including capturing and treating precipitation that falls on the site and treating greywater, vegetative waste and sewage for nutrient energy and water recapture and reuse.

Commodity: 
Water, rivers, caves, trails, people, parks, gardens, mineral springs, water, food, old buildings
Custom & Culture: 
Pride in neighborhood, importance of family, symphony, students earning service hours, schools, universities, art galleries
Knowledge: 
Future residents, universities, schools, engineering professors, climate scientists, school of nutrition, Capstone projects, storytellers, gardeners, Botanical Garden
Money: 
Contract with Commerce Bank for tax credits, sub-local currency, equity, unit reservations
Technology: 
Tools, equipment and materials for SCIPs manufacturing and gardening, Integral Urban Ecovillage, You and I technology, cohousing and ecovillage methodology, cost savings synergies among businesses healing arts, transformational training
Well-Being: 
Community focus, health care facilities, alternative health practitioners, dance, gardens, relationships
Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 2011-05-21 17:00

Renovate NYC's Pier 40 and the Village Community Boathouse as an Abundant Community Facility

Pier 40 and the Village Community Boathouse have been serving New York City for X amount of years.

The rise in price of rents, creeping private real estate developers, and a crumbling national infrastructure have contributed to the cacophony of bureaucratic questions surrounding the facility and a planned solar panel renovation.

Pier 40 and VCB is a public mixed use facility.

Public Rowing, Non-profits and other local businesses

Commodity: 
Landfills full of raw materials. Skilled, willing, and resilient human resources with strong interpersonal skills, who are focused on efficiency AND preservation of self, to avoid bodily harm. Communitas
Custom & Culture: 
Many humans adhering to spiritual virtues, major and minor, within their own perceived limitations against the city and irresponsible wealth.
Knowledge: 
GIC
Money: 
An integral part of the this challenge, money can be accumulated by increasing design efficiency and decreasing materials cost. Labor cost can remain consistent with the existing NYC ethic for commensurate work.
Technology: 
GIC
Well-being: 
Cardiovascular Health, Knowledge Exchange, Community Service, Communitas, Freedom of Expression
Links: 
Pier 40 on Yelp!
Village Community Boathouse
Submitted by DmitryAGurvits on Wed, 2011-05-18 13:17

Milk Does the Body Good – Can the Government Deny us Freedom of Food?

 

Apart from illegal drugs, raw milk may be the most rapidly traded underground commodity in the United States.  The controversy surrounding the distributing and  selling of raw milk across state lines was brought into the public eye yet again this week when the Feds raided an Amish farm in Kinzers, Pennsylvania. The Feds had been conducting a “covert operation” on Amish farmer Dan Allgyer’s farm for several weeks and are accusing him of violating federal interstate commerce law by selling raw milk to a Maryland food club.

Submitted by DLH on Tue, 2011-05-17 13:06
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