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Everyone can be a villager, even if you live in a city, town, or neighborhood. It's a way of being: a villager is someone who is part of the local community, and someone who supports the community by living and promoting a sustainable lifestyle. We are responding to the challenge of creating settlements that function with a minimum of fossil fuels whilst fulfilling the demand for supportive, close-to-nature lifestyles. To facilitate this transition we are developing new community investment- and business models.

"Welcome to the community wiki for Davis, California, USA! This project is an interconnected community effort to explore, discuss and compile anything and everything about Davis - especially the little, enjoyable things. This entire site is maintained by the people who use it: Everyone can edit this website!"

"The goal of Project Byzantium is to develop a communication system by which users can connect to each other and share information in the absence of convenient access to the Internet.  This is done by setting up an ad-hoc wireless mesh network that offers services which replace popular websites often used for this purpose, such as Twitter and IRC."

"We'd like to build Your Community a Home Sweet Home. A Place where members come to interact, and exchange, in order to build cohesion, solidarity and volunteerism. Our tools make your life easier:"

A mobile publishing platform that resembles a community notice board.

" Elements will be the first "crowdsourced" restaurant, conceived and developed by an open community of experts and interested parties" Imgine if the finance was crowd sourced and it was run as a democratic open enterprise using Bettermeans or similar

To inspire and empower people to build economical, sustainable, and community created structures through an international network of skilled and unskilled volunteers that exchange knowledge, labor, and experiences at sustainable self-build projects. Help one another, house one another, sustain life on our planet!

DYNDY is an effort at building a Pattern Language for Alternative and Complementary Money Systems to inform and empower grassroots communities with concepts and tools to overcome scarcity, instruments and reflections for the Exodus from proprietary money.

COHAB is a community of individuals and organisations working together to address the gaps in awareness, policy and action on the links between biodiversity and human health and well-being. The Initiative supports efforts to enhance human security through the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and the goods and services it provides. COHAB provides a platform for dialogue, promoting understanding and experience sharing, and working to build partnerships across sectors and cultural divides.

Answer from the UK's FSA on the legality of the Grok The design of the ReeComm, and in particular of the Grok, conform to German national law, where the Grok is even exempt from supervision by the financial services authority. For other countries the relevant local authorities and fiscal experts must be consulted, and a set of rules for "your" Grok hammered out which are legal by your national laws. We have received a reply from the UK's Financial Services Authority to our question about the Grok in the UK; it is both long and difficult to understand. We will be glad to provide it to anyone interested - just contact us.

We are a growing network of organizations and people all working together to support marginalized communities to have greater control over the decisions and resources that shape their lives.

We want to be one initiative of artists, scientists and the interested parties to build a global food network and make available to specify with the goal in mind every person on this planet a chance to eat free and healthy. We are one, divided by zero.

Asset­ map builds technology that gives serendipity a hand, help­ ing you discover more of the amazing people you happened to have not met, yet.

deep models for understanding systems and social resilience

BrightFarms designs, finances, builds and operates hydroponic greenhouse farms at supermarkets, eliminating time, distance and cost from the food supply chain.

The local food movement in America is gaining steam. The question is whether can it attract sufficient capital from the private sector to build large, profitable businesses. Without that, it's just a fad. there is the inextricable link between energy and agriculture. The food industry in the U.S is one of the largest and most wasteful consumers of energy. Various studies estimate that the food industry consumes around 10% of the nation's energy with only about 20% of it used in the actual production of food. The rest goes to processing, home refrigeration and preparation, and of course, transportation. Transportation costs also are a major factor in food prices, especially for water-heavy vegetables such as romaine lettuce.For all of these reasons and others, the local food movement in America is gaining steam.