Climate change

 

Here's a story about how members of the Changemakers community are using media to educate the public on climate change:

We're intrigued by the soft-launch of Climate Central, a self-described "think tank" with a production studio that's focused on delivering "timely, relevant, high-quality climate information through a variety of channels."

Climate Central represents another exciting example of the bypassing of traditional news media outlets.

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Talk to MEal : How to end PASSIVE CONSUMPTION and how to work towards FOOD SUSTAINABILITY

Created on 09/7/2009 by OpenDiwa

Talk to MEal are cook-outs and picnics that will be held on grassroots communities wherein dishes are accompanied by Talking/Interactive Menu. This will educate people about their food sources, nutrition and possible solutions.
 

 

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Lorelei

Last Name

Almirez

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Online Participant, Sprout e-course, TakingITGlobal

Country

Philippines

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Organization Name

TakingITGlobal

Organization Website

Organization Phone

+1 416 977 9363

Organization Address

19 Duncan Street, Suite #505 Toronto, Ontario M5H 3H1 CANADA

Organization Country

Canada

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Talk to MEal : How to end PASSIVE CONSUMPTION and how to work towards FOOD SUSTAINABILITY

Country your work focuses on

Philippines

What makes your approach innovative?

GRASSROOTS
Talk to MEal is an innovative, budget-friendly and simple approach to engage local community about food security issues and GMO. It is done on a grassroots level where anyone who is interested can join and is presented as a very cozy and inviting activity that people in the community are readily open and excited about, Cook-outs and Picnics.
COMMUNITY CONTENT DEVELOPMENT
Every meal will be accompanied by an interactive menu regarding its Recipe, Ingredients (natural, artificial, preserv., local/import, GMO), Source, Nutritional Value and Farm-to-Your-Plate food path. Every meal course will be assigned a team, a Recipe person who knows the recipe preparation and its cultural orgins; a Grocer/Gatherer who will map the local food sources; and a Presenter who will prepare the Talking/Interactive Menu and facilitate it in an enlightening and entertaining approach during luncheon.
MODULARITY
Talk to MEal is also a very modular program in which any community can replicate and modify accordingly.
INTEGRATED
This approach not only tackles GMO issue but also relates other issues of local living economy, food security and community health

Describe Your Idea

Talk to MEal are cook-outs and picnics that will be held on grassroots communities wherein dishes are accompanied by Talking/Interactive Menu. This will educate people about their food sources, nutrition and possible solutions.
 
 

How will you sustain your solution?

SOCIAL ENTERPRISE and COMMUNICATION
Talk to MEal will be sustained as solution for as long as local enterprises and residents seek to strengthen their local business and community food sources . Talk to MEal will be launched in nearby communities and farmlands.

Local enterprises, homeowners associations and organizations will pool resources (funds and manpower) to launch Talk to MEal in their community while also seeking funding sources like fair trade expositions, food cooperative kiosks and continuous micro-donations program.
Promotion and communications of its principles and programs will prioritize local schools and hospitals as its audience. Bookkeeping and institutional support and assistance can be solicited from local government programs and agencies.

What will be the impact of your solution?

CROSS-SECTORAL
Talk to MEal seeks to establish productive and meaningful inter-generational networks and activities in the local community. Grandparents, senior residents, food enthusiasts, food gardeners and small restaurants in the local community can have active participation and can even benefit from youth-led and youth-initiated programs for food security and sustainable urban farming.
EDUCATION and MOBILIZATION
Food sources mapping can help identify and educate people about GMO presence in their food and consumer goods. Awareness and education are necessary to establish local and regional mobilization and campaign about the people's stand on GMO issues.

In this program, local communities can decide for themselves whether to remain as passive consumers or become food producers and educated consumers.

SUSTAINABLE SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURES
In the long run, network of communities can serve as alternative food sources. This perspective also admits that food delivery systems should lessen its carbon footprint.

FACTORfiction vs. FRIEND²O²Rfoe

Created on 08/14/2009 by leo_hphp@yahoo.ca

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What is identity and do you have a right to one; were you born with it or was it loaned to you to return upon death? What is Copyright and have you copied right or wrong? If LIFE was not OPEN SOURCE what would we breathe...am i an example of life or death These questions, along with many more about "Public Domain" have interested the members of teamLEOnardo [since Leonardo da Vinci left his work to our hands, understanding, and/or overstanding?].

"Every Seed/Child Must Grow!" not GMO...

Created on 07/29/2009 by leo_hphp@yahoo.ca

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Aloha, we're glad you could make it. Please, pull up a shell & take your SEED-cause i know you've been standing on your feed, all day long! 'Fir starters, i hope i one: don't bore you with grammer mistakes [test: we have to be really honest to discuss such important itsyuoes] and two: if you cud see how missing peaces land exxxtraaaa letters make DNA, AND or DAN, then you May understand what some people mean when they say BOOOOoooooHoooOo for GMO (GenModOrg) and EHYA i mean YEAH for GmO (Good/God made Optimism).

SEEDS - Seeding Environment & Economy with Democratic Seeds

Created on 07/29/2009 by leo_hphp@yahoo.ca

"Every Seed/Child Must Grow!" One story says it all... "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be (edifying/edible) food for you..." www [dot] Genesis 1:29 [dot] ask why...? http://www.michaelpollan.com/index.htm

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http://Global - seeds are organic love letter emails for us to send to friends.

Organization

SEEDS - Seeding Environment & Economy with Democratic Seeds

Country

Canada

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Organization Name

SEEDS - Seeding Environment & Economy with Democratic Seeds

Organization Website

http://Global - seeds are organic websites for us to bookmark in the ground-computer.

Organization Phone

5148452654

Organization Address

EARTH - We plant seeds wherever we travel~!

Organization Country

United States

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SEEDS - Seeding Environment & Economy with Democratic Seeds

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n/a

What makes your approach innovative?

"Shall we will take back what we gave away?" Children are humanity’s seeds! So let's take the guessing game out of health-care with an HONEST initiative of ‘Hands On Nutrition, Environment & Social-Trust'. Mangos & avocados grown in Canada, fruit trees of the middle-east grown in Mexico; our list goes on & will go on forever. One thing humanity needs, is a catalogue of SEED-originS when decisions are made [without the individual voice] to innovate upon the nature of nature. Nature’s always innovated for us! We’ll return the favor if we maintain original stocks. Some countries have large storage facilities underground but if we are to survive, with real choices to food varieties, we need to grow our own storage & the best way is a growing, edible storage (naturally evolving) in our hands. Our approach is innovative by being the first P2P growing/evolving global seed bank.

Describe Your Idea

"Every Seed/Child Must Grow!" One story says it all... "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be (edifying/edible) food for you..." www [dot] Genesis 1:29 [dot] ask why...? http://www.michaelpollan.com/index.htm

How will you sustain your solution?

"Sustenance is in the hands of the hungry!" SEEDS, has maintained growing-fields in more places than we care to mention (Ongoing-4th yr planting) because local authorities would also like to know who planted life, where cement (death) has taken root & made a mental impact on our society!
SEEDS harvest (mission) is to plant (sow) in the mind (soil) of its garden (society) the 'life' that keeps our planet alive "for humanity". On every continent, from every coast to available coast, from winter greenhouses to summer backyard-animal-restaurants, SEEDS asks every fruit, vegetable, nut & herb lover to take responsibility & PLANT. With time our seeds/plants will differ greatly from GMO strains, giving us a democratic edge over the GLOBAL sickness which may be found [in years to come] to be a root of GMO! Why wait? Earthling…PLANT NOW! A SEEDS website will document the global garden-community growth of SEEDS.

What will be the impact of your solution?

Campaign: Every Seed/Child Must Grow! Impact: humanity will not need Monsanto or other big-industrial-growers, as simply as ‘humanities ancestors’ only needed sunlight, rain & the technology given to us 'at hand' to "feed one another". Oh...& the willingness to share in the work of returning to the Earth, agro-consciously, daily for sustenance, education & conversation (twitter MOTHER EARTH & live)! Its really fun picking antioxidant-youth of the vine, nutrient-fruit of the branch &/or berry of the bush. SEEDS plan(t)s our future...grown from a healthy & edible past! If you want it done right…do it yourself…right? Yes, together, we can!
"Was humanity given vast understanding into the genesis of life [the building blocks of seeds, etc.] so [we would know] the power of invention could be innovated? Earthling; be responsible & explore!"
-adas09', Inventor, Innovator, Creator & pilot of "LEO - Low Earth Orbit", from which seeds can be thrown/sown.

climate changes on horticultural biodiveristy

Created on 07/26/2009 by cravindran

studies of effect of climate changes on distribution of horticultural biodiveristy is an important and urgent research, which indirectly secure food and nutritional security of rural livelihood of the peoples. need for conservation of horticultural species which are underutilized and extintion in nature

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Ravindran

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Chandran

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Tamil Nadu Agricultural University

Country

India

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Tamil Nadu Agricultural University

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Organization Country

India

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climate changes on horticultural biodiveristy

Country your work focuses on

India

What is the likely impact of your idea? (150 words max)

studies on effect of climate changes on distribution of horticultural biodiveristy will bring fruitful outcome and conserve endanged species in india

Why is promoting global travel and engagement important? What makes your idea innovative? (200 words max)

its give an idea of world level species knowledge and sharing scientific outcomes

Describe Your Idea

studies of effect of climate changes on distribution of horticultural biodiveristy is an important and urgent research, which indirectly secure food and nutritional security of rural livelihood of the peoples. need for conservation of horticultural species which are underutilized and extintion in nature

What would it take to launch or spread your idea? How much would it cost to make your idea a reality? (150 words max)

baseline survey will help to launch this peoject

Describe your work as a social innovator (150 words max)

this work will definately related to social and development of rural and indegenous peoples

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RW - WE, RECYCLED WORTH - WECYCLED EARTH

Created on 07/11/2009 by leo_hphp@yahoo.ca

Bicyclists all over the world deserve to "share their wealth of health" with anyone. Offsets of every kind (to pay fines, bills, traveling expenses on other vehicles (-cycles in tow) worldwide, etc., imagine it…!) will be given, for using a bicycle (or electric motorized cycle) as your primary transportation.

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adas

Last Name

brehann

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Organization

RW WE, RECYCLED WORTH - WECYCLED EARTH

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Canada

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Organization Name

RW WE, RECYCLED WORTH - WECYCLED EARTH

Organization Website

Organization Phone

5148452654

Organization Address

Montreal Quebec

Organization Country

Canada

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RW - WE, RECYCLED WORTH - WECYCLED EARTH

Country your work focuses on

n/a

What is the likely impact of your idea? (150 words max)

RW WE (Are double-you we? It takes two to tango & sometimes more - your old self & the new ‘recycled/re-educated/re-inspired’ ones) will impact Earthlings, of Earth, through reversing every kind of 'IF' (Individual Footprint(s)), by ramping up the transition away from carbon related travel, by replacing it with ZERO EMISSIONS vehicles, travel & other rewards. ***IMPACT-RESULT: ‘Team RW WE’ kicks off on an ongoing global journey. One which will always being imbued with new volunteers, to promote our innovative initiative of providing support to tour little known places & unknown cultures. ‘WE’ will bring each tribe to the world stage [with education & videos about those cultures (as if curious & cautious children & vice versa) without ruining the indigenous nature of…& unique reason for traveling to & sharing of…time honored understanding] & the WISDOM which ALLOWS each of our tribes, to sustain ONENESS, with & within our environment(s).

Why is promoting global travel and engagement important? What makes your idea innovative? (200 words max)

From antiquity, the importance of uniquely knowing other tribes, sharing & communicating with each about the environment which supports its longevity has always helped to balance consumption to prevent the overuse of resources. Those tribes have now become our 'global village', in a domino effect of action & a house of cards, waiting to be toppled by increasing climate changes. Our idea is as innovative as smoke signals in the sky…or is that a hurricane…and earth will continue to innovate. Every tribe from every arc of the Earth, MUST read into the 'world wide smoke web' to contribute accordingly, by asking your self, “Are you, you (RW) from your future, or the Recycled noW” & “Can WE ‘travel’ back in time to discover/understand our ignorance, to re-ignite our journey with earth-lingering love for all life, in the present/gift, the world over, the planet around Recycled Wisdom”? Yes WE Can!

Describe Your Idea

Bicyclists all over the world deserve to "share their wealth of health" with anyone. Offsets of every kind (to pay fines, bills, traveling expenses on other vehicles (-cycles in tow) worldwide, etc., imagine it…!) will be given, for using a bicycle (or electric motorized cycle) as your primary transportation.

What would it take to launch or spread your idea? How much would it cost to make your idea a reality? (150 words max)

To ‘launch’ RW ‘WE’ need everyone to earnestly NEED to pitch in, & a unique website to ‘spread’ the love & care for earth will allow for this 'reality' to happen. RW ‘WE' need sponsorship-teams composed of small businesses & individuals matching one another's donations. ‘WE’ need GOV’s & NGO's contributing to a partnership-fund to level the playing field but not remove the advantages of any company's longevity as a leader in their respected field(s). Join RW ‘WE’ transitioning from FEAR OF POLLUTION to ZERO POLLUTION. Make your life healthier & simpler with RW ‘WE' -cycling for life. ‘IF’ YOU ARE alive…YOU ARE a leader…& RW ‘WE' will follow your lead in re-cycling YOUR earth. Condé Nast Traveler, IS our ‘lead’ launch pad for making RW ‘WE' your ‘reality’. Humanity is ready. Are you…ready to join the global-cycle tribe? [RW WE, estimates 70,000USD startup; 1 yr tour & website]

Describe your work as a social innovator (150 words max)

My work, in (n=social) ovation: to understand/innovate where humanity went off course, to grasp/innovate the significance of collective observation, to be an example of communicating/innovating ‘with’ others by being a better listener, to focus-on/innovate others’ gifts, so those gifts can transform the lives of any listener, to change/innovate my habits (even when they do not suit my wants) in order to better understand humanities needs. Last yet not least, to better the way for others to live off the grid [of control] & onto the earth grid freeing humanity from the ten-thousand-fear old trick of giving slaves more income, & rising prices, to “make” us all “believe” we’re free while oppressing us mentally with unnecessary propagandist media. ‘WE’ don't push the envelope; ‘WE’ mail it back to slave masters with messages of love in the face of persecution. Sow, if I am you. Are you me, reaping RW WE?

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LEO - Low Earth Orbit - HPHP - Human Powered Helicopter Project

Created on 07/6/2009 by leo_hphp@yahoo.ca

LEO: an airborne cycle for personal, sport & public transportation. As bicyclings Wright Brothers are Changemakers of a generation, LEO is a record-setting, environmental, hovering inspiration born of da Vinci's sketches/memory & handed to us to enter Igor I. Sikorsky's competition: http://vtol.org/awards/hph.html

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LEO - Low Earth Orbit - An End to Poverty

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Canada

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Organization Name

LEO - Low Earth Orbit - An End to Poverty

Organization Website

Organization Phone

5148452654

Organization Address

Montreal, Quebec

Organization Country

Canada

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LEO - Low Earth Orbit - HPHP - Human Powered Helicopter Project

Country your work focuses on

n/a

What is the likely impact of your idea? (150 words max)

Earth impact: from bicycle enthusiasts to an airplane industry, from E=mc² to breakthroughs in science & technology in far less time & even less time from Burt Rutan, Richard Branson & Dr. Peter H. Diamandis to a thriving 'public' space industry & FROM ACROSS TIME, Leonardo's drawings flew into teamLEOnardo's hands, to inspire travel starved minds & bodies exhausted by imposing immigration rules, to ignite human awareness of our ability to reverse climate change. With help from our hp-friends, Greg @ http://www.pedaltheocean.com/ & Marcelo @ http://xof1.com/ LEO educates through imagination by turning history's wrongs into rights, by saying 'YES WE CAN' to a human-solar powered future. As “Earthlings”, we need to take transportation into our hands; as adults, we need to leave a legacy of following through with childhood inspirations/innovations &/or life-dreams! LEO, impacting HEARTS, MINDS & BODIES beyond age, gender &/or past failures in another’s hand is our…DREAM IMPACT!

Why is promoting global travel and engagement important? What makes your idea innovative? (200 words max)

Global (or further than yesterday) travel is the cornerstone upon which all nations (dreams) were built. Through thick & thin, engagement was the tool through which Intellectual Property could be shared, benefiting everyone involved. Centuries of innovation with Chinese hovering toys have circumnavigated Earth, inspiring American dreamers (Canadian, USian, Mexican), giving flight to countless conversations & innovations in aeronautical design. Naturally, our mission/our flight plan, is… the freedom to hover & roam… LEO is our seed of innovation on the wing! Next, we plant/partner LEO with eco- & geo-tourism & development projects to encourage global tourism; to offer a new & very important perspective of the land where “the people live” & to personally engage humanity with the most natural & pleasing resource available, to flying creatures; the beauty & fragility of our planet, from above! It’s teamLEOnardo’s dream that it’s important to you, that LEO’s… DREAM AWAKENS!

Describe Your Idea

LEO: an airborne cycle for personal, sport & public transportation. As bicyclings Wright Brothers are Changemakers of a generation, LEO is a record-setting, environmental, hovering inspiration born of da Vinci's sketches/memory & handed to us to enter Igor I. Sikorsky's competition: http://vtol.org/awards/hph.htmlLearning from all who have tried/died trying: http://www.humanpoweredhelicopters.org/sikorskyprize/index.htm pledge to innovation. Wonderful: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caHCbuh_Yyc Thanks Prof Naito!

What would it take to launch or spread your idea? How much would it cost to make your idea a reality? (150 words max)

Reality? HISTORIC EVENT! LEO prepares to win Sikorsky's Competition. The human & solar powered (public) transportation dream is realized as the healthy choice for billions. A change in human being/mobility requires new immigration laws. Earth from above, in Condé Nast Traveler’s 2nd article, PedalLEOtour2010: raising the ‘travel bar’ to hovering above GREEN, helps to sustain a human powered (helicopter) industry. Global relations change. After dreaming up a ‘far-fetched-flying idea’ my Wright Brothers must have wondered if bicycles would be ‘sustained’ by 'twittering, innovating or recycling' their inventions. SO, sustaining LEO is in the hands of the hungry! The REALITY is the cost of life! With an ability to willingly cross borders, LEO announces the beginning of the END of POVERTY. Later, we upgrade LEO with a solar-electric engine giving older people a new way to explore retirement/a new life, encouraging youth to stay healthy & young. LEO's REALITY…POVERTY’s END…DREAM LAUNCH!

Describe your work as a social innovator (150 words max)

As Earthlings our work is so innovative, it is not yet well known worldwide, but greatly received in local regions. Our seed/kind of grassroots innovation comes from (35+) years of travel experience between the mates of teamLEOnardo. From Los Angeles to Nepal, Alaska to South America, India to Europe and Australia to Japan & many more places/routes in between, our unique brand of social innovation begins, where our birth places end - sowing in us all an indigenous nature to roam - free from the ignorance of borders in our new global village, Earth! In teamLEOnardo's workshop, the sound of social innovation is in the voices of contributors visiting their investment from time to time, where helping out gives them a "hands on" experience of home/hand-made fun, education & community supported activity! The PedalLEOtour2010 will be LEO's way of giving back to all the 'global villages' visited along the way. For teamLEOnardo, social innovation is giving LEO your 'two cents' by reserving a pilot's seat in your name with comments & suggestions, by pitching in where LEO needs help, & by reminding others to stay tuned for Hover Day. VOTE for your FREEDOM, earthling, thank you! DREAM SHARED!

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EcoPlayGround

Created on 05/31/2009 by AllenHahn

 

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1411 East End Ext.

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Pittsburgh

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PA

Project Postal/Zip Code

15218

Project Country

United States

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EcoPlayGround

Describe Your Idea

 The project will give Pittsburgh youth a chance to design and play games that express their perspective on local environmental concerns. The project is a hybrid of theatre, and game play mixed with community engagement. Such cross-pollination of forms is important both to the evolution of the forms themselves, but most importantly to engaging young audiences and demonstrating the value of art in understanding and engaging the world around them. There is no greater issue confronting the world’s population today than environmental degradation. While today’s adults debate ways of beginning to address these problems, it is today’s youth who will have to implement solutions. This experience will foster concrete understanding of environmental issues and create a personal investment in successful solutions. 

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EcoPlayGround will work with Pittsburgh youth to design and create an interactive theatre/game that takes players on a journey as they explore an ecologically significant site in the city. With the guidance of a team of adults, a core creative group of youths will explore Pittsburgh’s ecology and the legacy of the region’s manufacturing industry and overlay their own perspective to devise a story about the world they will inherit. They will then turn their story into a game to be played by other youths in which narrative, clues, and instructions will be relayed via mobile phone—already the preferred mode of communication for today’s young audience.
As we evolve from passive media consumption into a culture of participation enabled by technology, existing art forms must adapt to youth interests and perspectives about the world. Projects that use games to develop interest and activism in tomorrow’s leaders will be critical to their success in confronting these complex issues.

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Creating a story/game that integrates their own ideas with their investigation of ecological issues will give young people the agency to use what they learn in ways that they themselves define.
Playing the game will awaken a deeper, more concrete understanding of the environment and its impact on players’ well-being and create investment in a healthy ecology. Players will also need to rely on teamwork to solve the game’s challenges and ensure a successful outcome.
For both groups, the collective engagement needed to succeed will foster a sense of community and model the collaborative effort necessary to find solutions to environmental problems in the real world.
Broader impact will come from testing a new model for civic engagement by youth that fosters inquiry and creativity in equal measure. The project methodology will be thoroughly documented and offered as an open source model on which other youths can build in telling new stories about issues specific to their communities.

What will it take to launch your idea? How will you secure community support and youth participation?

We will seek young creators from schools whose goals align with EcoPlayGround, and who can include the project in classroom syllabi for the coming school year to launch the finished game in the fall of 2010.
Existing technology could support a basic treasure-hunt style game. Costs to augment this could range from $5 to $25k depending on the complexity of the system required. The game is one of exploring existing spaces, so the technology can be scaled to fit the budget without diminishing the core experience.
CMU will offer seed money through The Performance and Ecology Initiative, directed by Wendy Arons. We will seek to partner with local research and tech concerns to adapt technology for the game. Additional funding may be sought based on the success of those efforts.
Other costs toward which the requested $25k will be allocated include fees for principal artist, Allen Hahn, to oversee the project, and for experts in education/outreach and game design to assist in its implementation.

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Allen Hahn’s lighting design work has been seen all over the US and in festivals and opera houses across Europe. He considers light and space to be primary influences on character actions in the drama. His latest work explores using the narrative possibilities of found spaces in the city to imagine the city’s past and spark creative thought and dialogue about its future.
Wendy Arons is a Professor of Drama at Carnegie Mellon University. She has worked on numerous devised performance pieces, and as Director of CMU's Performance and Ecology initiative she will be organizing an Eco-drama Festival in Fall 2009.
Both project directors have professional experience with pioneering companies in devised theatre and are well suited to expand this paradigm outside the theatre. We have strong relationships in local arts and technology communities from which additional team members will be sought based on their expertise and their belief in the project’s vision of a vibrant youth voice in Pittsburgh.

Voices of Youth Pittsburgh Prayer Wheels

Created on 05/27/2009 by pageks

“Pittsburgh Prayer Wheels” is a youth-driven project. A group of CAPA HS students as “Youth Voices of Pittsburgh” will involve the city’s youth in the creation of public artworks that give voice to their ideas and allow for community reflection on them.

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1307 Sherman Avenue

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PA

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15212

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United States

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“Pittsburgh Prayer Wheels” is a youth-driven project. A group of CAPA HS students as “Youth Voices of Pittsburgh” will involve the city’s youth in the creation of public artworks that give voice to their ideas and allow for community reflection on them.Through neighborhood and virtual forums, workshops and a blog site, all youth would be invited to voice their ideas and concerns. Traveling studios and on-line submissions would permit the participants to translate their voices into visual references, or “sketches”. These “sketches” could contain symbols, words, drawings, poems, etc., and would be incorporated onto the surface of multiple rings.   Referencing the Tibetan prayer wheel, these rings would be assembled to make large “prayer wheels”, will be fabricated in aluminum and recycled materials, all sustainable, and would be installed along the city’s rivers. The cylinders will rotate as they are touched, allowing for an immediate multi-sensory experience with the work and encouraging a contemplative response to the youths’ diverse ideas. 

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The goal of innovation is positive change, to make someone or something better. This project is innovative in that it infuses an Eastern Traditional Object with Contemporary Western Youth voices, with young people collaborating for positive change. In a world growing increasingly smaller, yet seemingly more divided, it is important that young people develop skills to communicate their ideas in a team setting and in a visual language, across cultures. We also hope to harness wind, water, or solar energy to power a continual rotation of the Youth Voices Prayer Wheels. As the Tibetan tradition states, the more the wheels rotate, the more positive energy is released.

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Plugged in, signed on, down-loaded and thinking – this project initiates on-line and real-time collaborations between neighborhoods, schools, youth groups, artists, community members, professionals, and cultural institutions to establish a forum for the Voices of Pittsburgh Youth.

This project creates a forum for the youth of our area to voice their concerns and ideas. In many circumstances teenagers are considered to be threatening and it is imperative that they are allowed a safe, considerate, and appropriate place to state their opinions.

Through the project’s website and blogspot, anyone can analyze and respond to their opinions, ideas, voices and concerns.
The blogspot will become the arena for the dissemination of information and place for open creative dialogue. At the on-site forums and workshop the youth will make art that reflects their own take on the issues about which they are most concerned. They will create this piece. We, as adult artists, will only help to facilitate the final design.

While the Voices of Youth can develop over the Internet, it is also imperative that the participants become receptive to new ideas as well as develop their individual pursuits. The spinning prayer wheels allow for a collaborative collage of ideas. It is our responsibility as adult artists to suggest and mitigate the final results.

There can be virtual exhibitions of submitted work as well as exhibitions in related communities. We feel that we can incorporate many voices in many areas with our idea.

What will it take to launch your idea? How will you secure community support and youth participation?

We are all adjunct art instructors at CAPA High School and therefore have a very willing pool of talent to draw from. We also have built strong collaboration partnerships with The Andy Warhol Museum and The Mattress Factory.

The project will be launched by the CAPA HS “Community Art Ambassadors” who will create a website and blog for the project, send out e-vites, create Facebook events, and contact the city papers. Additionally, solicitations will be made through the Pittsburgh Public and Private Schools teacher networks.

Libraries and other safe havens would be the sites for the forums, while the traveling studio could take place at parks, youth centers (such as Sarah Heinz House), The Warhol Museum, The Mattress Factory, or schools.

The website and blog will document and record the process and disseminate the schedule of forums/workshops and will include a digital exhibition of works in progress.

The construction of the cylinders would become community events.

The $25,000 budget will cover costs of art materials, casting expenses, stipends and honorariums.

We would pursue additional funding through donations of materials.

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Karen Page has received many awards including an NEA Visual Arts Fellowship, a PA Council on the Arts Crafts Fellowship, and a Surdna Art Teacher Fellowship.
- MFA (Kent State University), BFA (Syracuse University)

Carley Parrish has been awarded multiple public art commissions as well as grants for staging hot metal pours with young people.
- BFA (University of NY at Buffalo)

Shannon Pultz, a member of the art collective, Art Club2000, has exhibited in NYC, Europe and Mexico.
- Previous Editor of the English edition of the art magazine, Flash Art International.
- BFA (The Cooper Union), Art K-12 certified

We are all art adjunct instructors at CAPA HS (Textiles, Sculpture, and Printmaking respectively). We bring to this project our many years of experience as teaching and exhibiting artists. Our commitment is evidenced by our daily dedication to artistic expression, education, and specifically problem-solving through the creative process as we work with and empower youth to realize their artistic voice.

Please join us for the closing reception of our students’ exhibition at Eastside Gallery, May 29 from 6-9pm.

DoDesign-s – design and marketing for rural communities and social projects

Created on 05/18/2009 by dodesign-s

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Trading Remote Control for Climate Control

Created: 04/21/09 by Anonymous

We're intrigued by the soft-launch of Climate Central, a self-described "think tank" with a production studio that's focused on delivering "timely, relevant, high-quality climate information through a variety of channels."

Climate Central represents another exciting example of the bypassing of traditional news media outlets.

Prayers for the Planet

Created: 04/17/09 by Anonymous

The Earth's natural beauty and bounty have inspired awe, reverence, and spiritual passions for millennia. Today, religious and environmental leaders around the world are working to connect the religious traditions that support nature with environmental activism and protection.

This emerging alliance of religion and ecology is rooted in a belief that environmental protection can be promoted by activating a sense of the earth's sacred qualities. It’s happening all around the globe.

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