Natural Capital Business Hub 02/22/2014

• Natural Capital Business Hub
  Pioneers in such efforts are sharing their practices on a new website. The Natural Capital Business Hub, launched Wednesday at the 2014 GreenBiz Forum, is a joint effort of The Nature Conservancy and the Corporate EcoForum. It showcases the natural capital efforts of some 40 companies — from Alcoa to Lockheed Martin to YES Bank — representing $1.4 trillion in revenues. Nonprofits involved include BSR, Trucost and World Wildlife Fund (WWF). "There’s more going on in this field than people expect, and it’s really boomed in the last couple of years," said Michelle Lapinski, senior advisor, Businesses Valuing Nature, at The Nature Conservancy. The hub's core tool is a database of case studies, which you can search by industry, geography, benefit, approach or ecosystem. Supporting articles introduce visitors to the basic concepts of valuing natural capital, with categories offering to help you "make the case, benchmark, implement and connect" your own efforts.
  Tags: sustainability, natural capital, environmental, environmentalism, business
  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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Streetmix 02/20/2014

• Streetmix
  About Streetmix. Design, remix, and share your street. Add bike paths, widen sidewalks or traffic lanes, learn how all of this can impact your community. A side project by Code for America 2013 fellows:
  Tags: streets, transportation, community building, community planning, Code for America
  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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Modernizing Government, Cities GOOD, Future.ly, Future.ly Facebook, Movement for People, SharedPurpose and One Community

• Modernizing government, egov, and government 2.0 | Governing People
  Governing People is an editorially independent, online community for a new kind of government leader. Creating open and thoughtful dialogue is a crucial step towards the modernization of government and Governing People looks to play a central role in aggregating interesting content, connecting involved parties and facilitating discussion on all aspects egovernment.
  Tags: government, egov, people
  • - By Brian G. Dowling
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• Cities - GOOD
  In a world where things too often don’t work, GOOD seeks a path that does. Left, right. In, out. Greed, altruism. Us, them. These are the defaults and they are broken. We are the alternative model. We are the reasonable people who give a damn. No dogma. No party lines. No borders. We care about what works--what is sustainable, prosperous, productive, creative, and just--for all of us and each of us. This isn’t easy, but we are not afraid to fail. We’ll figure it out as we go.Call it a new party, call it a 21st century collaboration, call it an army, call it your new home. Or just call it GOOD.
  Tags: cities, collaboration, sustainable
  • - By Brian G. Dowling
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• Future.ly
  Our vision at Future.ly is to make the cutting edge standard, visualize future possibilities and map the players, influence factors and dynamics in the innovation space around the world. Ranging from tracking the Innovators, the institution or startups that they work in, the technologies that they are working on to the invisible characteristics that connect them. We aggregate relevant data sources to monitor dynamics and surface trends within different areas and enable the visual exploration of this data.
  Tags: future
  • - By Brian G. Dowling
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• Movement for the People |
  Movement for the People provides a framework for trans-partisan cooperation among people and organizations who believe that corporate involvement with politics is drowning out the voices of ordinary Americans. We believe that so much money is pouring into our political system that it is no longer capable of serving or representing We the People. We wish to change this.
  Tags: movement, people, Coffee Party
  
  
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• Future.ly Facebook
  Our vision at Future.ly is to make the cutting edge standard, visualize future possibilities and map the players, influence factors and dynamics in the innovation space around the world. Ranging from tracking the Innovators, the institution or startups that they work in, the technologies that they are working on to the invisible characteristics that connect them. We aggregate relevant data sources to monitor dynamics and surface trends within different areas and enable the visual exploration of this data.
  Tags: future, Facebook
  • - By Brian G. Dowling
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• SharedPurpose.Net
  SharedPurpose.Net is an internet system and framework for community and political organizing. We are building bridges between demographic groups, following a holistic vision of social cohesion.
  Tags: community participation, community empowerment
  
  
  • - By Brian G. Dowling
• One Community
  One Community: A Grassroots Think Tank began as One Pasadena in 2008. One Pasadena was a grassroots nonprofit aimed at building liaisons and increasing communication within the city's neighborhoods and communities.
  Tags: community, grassroots, communications, neighborhoods
  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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Story of America: Journey into the Divide 01/02/2014

• Story of America: Journey into the Divide
  Tags: storytelling, coffee party, dialogue

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Land of Opportunity 12/19/2013

• Land of Opportunity
  LandofOpportunity is an experimental web platform that explores post-crisis community (re)building in America. The innovative platform merges compelling multimedia storytelling with curated data, research, and calls to action in one collaborative interactive space. Currently in Beta
  Tags: storytelling, multimedia, data, research, collaboration, curation
  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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Maximizing shareholder value: The goal that changed corporate America - The Washington Post and Recalibrating a sustainability narrative | Charles Landry 08/31/2013

• Maximizing shareholder value: The goal that changed corporate America - The Washington Post
  “The shift in what employers think of as their role not just in the community but [relative] to their workforce is quite radical, and I think it has led to the last two jobless recoveries,” said Ron Hira, an associate professor of public policy at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
  Tags: shareholder, value, goal, Economic, corporate values, Article
  • - By Brian G. Dowling
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• Recalibrating a sustainability narrative | Charles Landry
  We face an entangled communications challenge. Becoming a sustainable city is less a technological issue than one of mindset, understanding and behavioural. Too many people still believe there is no problem. How can this be overcome? Do we approach it by engendering fear, cajoling, or persuasion? By providing evidence of the threats or examples of good practices? Do we jolt people into focus by ascending graphs of problems or imagery of iconic events like Katrina or Superstorm Sandy? It is best to show how the shift is doable and already happening and that those at the forefront have a better life economically and socially. The image of the sustainable city needs to feel as emotionally satisfying as the lure of consumer culture.
  Tags: Article, sustainability, wicked problem, complexity
  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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LLGA | Cities pilot the future 07/11/2013

• LLGA | Cities pilot the future
  LLGA offers you a program to inspire your city, build international recognition, gain in-depth market intelligence, learn from other leading cities and create growth opportunities for local businesses. Every year we interview 300+ cities to select the most committed partner cities for the LLGA program.By identifying opportunities for improvements early on in the process and inviting a market response, LLGA delivers an average of 10 times more intelligence on inspiring new solutions. Pilots are proven to deliver an important learning experience to city leaders and other stakeholders.
  Tags: cities, innovation, sustainability, ROI, future
  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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