via WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future by Sarah Rich on Jan 24, 2007
Everybody loves a "how-to." Simple instructionals and DIY projects are a requisite occupation for self-sufficient hipsters and hackers. From constructing personal PV arrays to generating pedal-powered electricity, brewing biodiesel to knitting scarves, worldchangers like to do things ourselves. Hence, my elation at discovering the nascent online project, Howtopedia.org, set up by a Swiss non-profit supported by Practical Action (formerly ITDG) and the International Network for Technical Information (INTI). Howtopedia's building a wiki-style library of DIY recipes that promote sustainability by helping us all become a little more independent. Howtopedia describe themselves as: A collaborative platform for practical knowledge and simple technologies, (i.e. technologies that require no complex machine, that are easily explainable and usable by individuals or small communities) for a sustainable and ecological future [...] We are convinced that sharing low-tech know-how across borders and organisations is essential for an independent and self-sufficient form of sustainable development. So far the library still has a lot of open space where content will eventually be found, and we're all invited to start filling it up by offering our own expertise and editorial skills. Even so, it's fascinating just to look through the placeholders and see what ideas have already begun to... (more)
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via News-stream by unknown on Jan 24, 2007
The chairman of the board of directors of TÜSİAD (Turkish Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association), Ömer Sabancı stated that Turkey could not turn into an information society. ...
via News-stream by unknown on Jan 25, 2007
It is an interdisciplinary journal "which looks to publish original university papers that focus on the conflux of the subject areas dealt with by universities in the knowledge society". The site includes an archive of past issues.
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