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Green Chemistry | A World of Possibilities
Currently, there is woefully little research and development in the green chemistry field and there are no universities teaching it.
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Why People and Place?
Here are four themes that combine to make P&P – maybe not unique – but not quite the same, either.
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Frances Westley Interview
Social innovators are really good connectors. They connect resources to possibilities.
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Ask Nature
Imagine 3.8 billion years of design brilliance available for free, at the moment of creation, to any sustainability innovator in the world.
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The Evolutionary Basis of Rigidity
Understanding why rigidity makes sense may help in finding ways to avoid traps in situations where flexible response and innovation are needed.
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Rigidity and Poverty Traps
Sometimes we cling to habits or practices that no longer serve our needs. Or we let go, only to find that for a time no new direction takes hold.
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"Science Commons" Video
Scientists are the ultimate remixers. They are taking information from multiple different sources and trying analyze it and say, well how does this all work together.
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Network Structure, Diversity, and Proactive Resilience Building
Human societies can make choices that will limit the need for adaptation in the future, and create space for future options.
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Ric Young on Social Innovation
This is my best guess of some critical ingredients for social innovation.
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On the Changing Roles of Nonprofits
One need not work for a nonprofit to be attracted to the idea of utilizing the Net to spur social change.
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From Complex Regions to Complex Worlds
There is opportunity for exploratory experiment if the experiments are designed to have low costs of failure.
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Panarchy and Pace in the Big Back Loop
What can we learn by mapping these two metaphors against each other?
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Beth Noveck: Wiki-Government | Democracy
George Bernard Shaw once wrote, "All professions are conspiracies against the laity," and nowhere is this more the case than in a democracy.
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Health Impact Fund
Financed by governments, the Health Impact Fund would offer patentees the option to forgo monopoly pricing in exchange for a reward based on the global health impact of their new medicine.
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Crowds, Co-Intelligence, and Expertise
We identified a relatively small set of building blocks that are combined and recombined in various ways in different collective intelligence systems.
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Beth Noveck and David Johnson: Networked Publics
The key insight is not to throw open the floodgates to undifferentiated public input, but to design group-based processes that enable online communities to collaborate on finding and vetting information for agencies.
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Design for Resilience | Shareable
When "designing for resilience," what are the principles or characteristics of resilient systems that might guide our designs? If we surmise the characteristics, perhaps we can innovate by analogy?
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Sustainability Transitions: From Niche to Mainstream
There are three ways in which niches can influence the regime. They can replicate, bringing about aggregative changes through many small initiatives; they can grow in scale and attract more participants and actors; and they can translate their ideas into mainstream settings.
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