Diigo Update 03/01/2020

• The Balaton Group - Balaton Group Home Page

  For over three decades, Balaton Group members have consistently advanced the boundaries of research and strategy for sustainable development. Collaboration among members has resulted in more than 30 books, over a hundred conferences, new learning centres and NGOs and uncounted computer models, training programmes, planning methods, journal articles, films, videos, policy initiatives, educational games, courses and research projects.

  Tags: sustainable communities, sustainability, strategy, research, collaboration

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

• Best content in Rural Community Food System (Kumu) | Diigo - Groups

  What constitutes a sustainable localized food system for a rural community? Source as local as possible from locally owned and operated to benefit the community. A Kumu Group Modeling Project

  Tags: Food Security, food, agriculture, farming, farmers, rural, regional economics, community empowerment, sustainability, economic development

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

• Community Development Resources: USDA Rural Information Center

  Tags: community development, resources, rural, regional, regional economics

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Diigo Update 02/27/2020

• One Planet Valley - Global Ecovillage Network

  The Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) catalyzes communities for a regenerative world. GEN is a growing network of regenerative communities and initiatives that bridge cultures, countries, and continents.

  Tags: ecology, regeneration, network, community, sustainability

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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Diigo Update 02/25/2020

• Ecoversities | reclaiming knowledges, relationships and imaginations

  There is an emerging knowledge movement that is slowly building all over the world, though it often goes unnoticed by the media and most formal education systems. A part of this movement can be described as a network of ‘eco-versities’—people, organizations and communities who are reclaiming knowledge systems and a cultural imaginary to restore and re-envision learning processes that are meaningful and relevant to the challenges of our times.

  Tags: education, systems, cultural, community, collaboration, resilience

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

• Climate Action Reserve

  Tags: climate, action, sustainability, environment

• About Blue Marble Evaluators — Utilizaton-Focused Evaluation

  Blue Marble Evaluation is a global initiative focused on training the next generation of evaluators to Think Globally, Act Globally and Evaluate Globally. It was launched by Utilization-Focused Evaluation in the Fall of 2015 with a generous pilot grant from the Faster Forward Fund in partnership with World Savvy and continues with support from the McKnight Foundation.

  Tags: evaluation, Earth Regeneration, environmental justice, environmental, ecology, sustainability

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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Diigo Update 02/15/2020

• Open Data Platform

  The heart of our work is the Ecological Footprint. The Footprint measures human demand on nature, expressed as a single, easy-to-understand number that’s scalable from an individual to a global level. Our Footprint data and tools empower leaders at the local and national level to make confident policy and investment decisions backed by facts.

  Tags: data, platform, ecology, global, local, community empowerment, sustainability

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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Diigo Update 02/13/2020

• How ‘Cultural Evolution’ Can Give Us the Tools to Build Global-Scale Resilience

  Singularity Hub chronicles technological progress by highlighting the breakthroughs, players, and issues shaping the future as well as supporting a global community of smart, passionate, action-oriented people who want to change the world.

  Tags: evolution, cultural, technology, global, community, resilience, collaboration

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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Diigo Update 02/10/2020

• RCN Forum | Regenerative Communities Network

  "Regenerative communities are emerging in both urban and rural areas across every continent. The global Regenerative Communities Network honors and connects these efforts with a digital learning platform and through a long-term cycle of on the ground support. "

  Tags: regenerative, economics, biosphere, community wealth, sustainability, collaboration, community empowerment, innovation, governance

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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Diigo Update 02/04/2020

• Platform Design Toolkit Videos & Adopters Webinars - Platform Design Toolkit

  Our Videos and Webinars are a mix between conversations with #PDToolkit adopters, open AMAs with the connected community and featured talks with special guests. They cover all about platforms and ecosystems and how the strategy of the connected organization needs to change in the XXIst century.

  Tags: webinars, videos, toolkit, design, platform, collaboration

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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Diigo Update 02/02/2020

• Public Banking Institute – Banking in the Public Interest

  The Public Banking Institute was founded in 2010 to further the understanding and implementation of publicly-owned banks.

  Tags: sustainability, economics, banking, public, community empowerment

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

• NetworkWeaver - Weaving System Shifting Networks

  The Network Weaver Consultants Network is a loosely affiliated group of consultants who provide a wide range of network services for organizations, networks and communities. Some of the consultants have taken a 5-month intensive practicum on network consulting led by June Holley and Kristin Johnstad. However, there is no vetting process for this page: anyone who has experience can put their name on this site. Make sure you contact the consultants directly to access more detail about their experience, interests and availability. The map below shows the Network Weaver Consultants and Services. Click and hold on a consultant’s node to focus on who they’re affiliated with and what service they provide, click and hold on a service node to focus on which of the consultants provides that service. Keep scrolling past the map for the consultants’ bios.

  Tags: networking, networks, ecosystem, network weaving, collaboration

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

• Milkwood - Skills for Permaculture Living

  Milkwood is dedicated to teaching and sharing permaculture skills, for living like it matters. Online, in-person, in print… whatever form it takes to get you inspired and making a better world, we want to help help you learn.

  Tags: Earth Regeneration, permaculture

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

• r3.0 | Redesign for Resilience & Regeneration for a green, inclusive and open economie

  Tags: regeneration, resilience, green, climate change, sustainability

• Home - The Really Regenerative Centre

  The Really Regenerative Centre is a backbone organisation which, as a bioregional learning centre for Sussex, is base for learning and action on climate change. It is a place from which research, learning and action can be coordinated and delivered to our communities.

  Tags: sustainability, regeneration, bioregional, climate change

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

• Regenerative Learning Centers - Google My Maps

  Tags: Earth Regeneration, climate change, sustainability, regeneration

• Earth Protector Communities

  Earth Protector Communities is a local to global grassroots movement in which Towns/Cities, Educational Institutions, businesses and other organisations work together to protect the land, wildlife, air, soil and water and also endorse the Stop Ecocide campaign, which supports the legal and diplomatic work to make Ecocide an international crime.

  Tags: Earth Regeneration, sustainability, regeneration, communities

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

• iLAND Criteria & Assessment Process | Permaculture Association

  "iLAND Criteria:  The purpose of the iLAND Criteria is to help projects to understand and implement best practice in permaculture demonstration and education, to help guide decision making for projects so that they can work towards creating an excellent centre. "

  Tags: Earth Regeneration, permaculture

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

• About IPEN - the International Permaculture Education Network | Permaculture Association

  "IPEN is working to increase beneficial collaboration and cross-pollination in the development of permaculture education systems internationally.   To achieve this IPEN is building an international network and platform to enable permaculture education resources to be more easily shared, translated, accessed, enriched and adopted by a global teaching and learning audience. The aim is to expand and accelerate the growth and development of permaculture education on the ground for tutors, in national and regional permaculture education systems, and within demonstration projects that deliver permaculture education."

  Tags: Earth Regeneration, permaculture, education, network, association, international

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

• Flourishing Enterprise Institute

  "A planetary wide network of nodes undertaking applied research, developing innovation practices, and mobilizing all this knowledge to enable leaders to realize Flourishing Enterprises worldwide. "

  Tags: innovation, research, Earth Regeneration, sustainability

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

• Continuous Improvement - Salish Sea Wiki

  "The Continuous Improvement effort is developing a prototype process for improving how state and federal agency systems that fund, regulate, or organize ecosystem recovery might improve services to local actors working on ecosystem recovery. It is inspired by Gemba Kaizen theory, initially developed within the Toyota Production System, where improvement opportunities are identified by the people who do the work on the "factory floor" and rapid improvement efforts are enabled through standard practices, and encouraged by leadership. We work with the resources we have, because self improvement in an intrinsic part of good government. The current iteration has received support from the Puget Sound Partnership's Ecosystem Coordination Board and is being guided by Lead Entities, Local Integrating Organizations and Ecosystem Recovery coordinators. "

  Tags: ecosystem, innovation, continuous improvement

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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