Coalition of the Willing

This will be a profoundly social economy, built on unprecedented capabilities to self-organize people and resources in the crowd. Social media will connect ideas, people, and institutions across porous boundaries that blur the inside/outside distinctions of yesterday 's companies and government agencies. Network connections will be the distribution channels across market sectors and radical transparency will be the new norm.

FutureBuilding is a web-based platform designed to revolutionize online fundraising and donations. FutureBuilding shows donors how every dollar and cent is spent and provides engaging visuals that illustrate the impact of giving.

The game is a pretext for inspiring children to create,develop and practice with the tools and processes of problem-solving, and creative and critical thinking. It is hoped that the children may ultimately be able to use these experiences to help reduce suffering and increase compassion in the world.

Online game with real-world sustainability outcomes

Drawing from seven decades of movement-building experience, Grace Lee Boggs shows how to create the radical social change we need to confront new realities.

Omnipedia - Thinking for Tomorrow was an electronic periodical published by International Futures Forum for three years from 2004 - 2006 (fourteen issues).

This book is about the many ways in which people are creating new and more effective answers to the biggest challenges of our times: how to cut our carbon footprint; how to keep people healthy; and how to end poverty. It describes the methods and tools for innovation being used across the world and across different sectors - the public and private sectors, civil society and the household - in the overlapping fields of the social economy, social entrepreneurship and social enterprise. It draws on inputs from hundreds of organisations to document the many methods currently being used around the world.

Facebook is harnessing the power of the social graph, and has certainly adopted an expanded definition of what 'currency' means. It's time for the rest of us to hop on board.

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.

The Web is about IDEAS+PEOPLE. Cohere is a visual tool to create, connect and share Ideas. Back them up with websites. Support or challenge them. Embed them to spread virally. Discover who - literally - connects with your thinking.

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Climate Lab is a nonpartisan nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization based in Washington, DC.  Our mission is to develop web-based tools for knowledge sharing and collaboration that drive action to address climate change.

WRI's goal is to reverse rapid degradation of ecosystems and assure their capacity to provide humans with needed goods and services.

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.

The Millennium Assessment focuses on how humans have altered ecosystems, and how changes in ecosystem services have affected human well-being, how ecosystem changes may affect people in future decades, and what types of responses can be adopted at local, national, or global scales to improve ecosystem management and thereby contribute to human well-being and poverty alleviation. 

Our international research programme takes up the challenge of exploring political solutions and novel, more effective governance systems to cope with the current transitions in the biogeochemical systems of our planet.