Coalition of the Willing

tools and behaviors that are developing to make economic exchange, transactions, payments, commerce, distributed collaboration, resource allocation, and social enterprise formation as frictionless and fluid as possible.

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.

" 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

WS M affords us all the opportunity to unite as One People, with One Voice, who together can bring about the transformation of our existing unsustainable world to a global society in which peace, sustainability, restorative justice and compassionate action are the everyday lived reality of all life on Earth.

Sourcemap is the crowdsourced directory of product supply chains and carbon footprints. Join us to learn more and contribute.

Taxonomy mashup test for Coalition

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.

" help your group open a bank account - help your group hold property - keep the whole team involved in day-to-day decisions"

CatalystMAP mock up

CatalystMAP mockup

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. 

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In a Design Journal article (Wood, 1990) I argued that "the entrepreneur; fixer, trouble shooter and exploiter should give way to the more socially responsible entredonneur; the giver, not the taker." One way in which we use the term is in creating a continuum that reconciles the 'entrepreneur' with the 'entredonneur' (see fig. x). This device enables us to chart a gradient of values with 'taking' at one end, and 'giving' at the other.

"Tools for democratizing information, increasing transparency and lowering the barriers for individuals to share their stories." "SwiftRiver is an open source platform that aims to democratize access to tools for filtering & making sense of real-time information."

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.

The Great Transformation was first published in 1944, it deals with the social and political upheavals that took place in England during the rise of the market economy

A mobile publishing platform that resembles a community notice board.

The Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) is an Open Source project based at Tufts University. The VUE project is focused on creating flexible tools for managing and integrating digital resources in support of teaching, learning and research. VUE provides a flexible visual environment for structuring, presenting, and sharing digital information.