Topspin Media About Products Topspin Platform ArtistLink Creative Services API Fulfillment Blog Support Gestion simple et conviviale de votre association Click the green 'Book It' button on a listing to send the host a formal reservation request. The host will then have 24 hours to respond. (If the host does not respond in that time, the booking expires.) People for cinema Crowdfunding the commons Crowdfunding + distributed collaboration Goteo is a social network for crowdfunding and distributed collaboration (services, infrastructures, microtasks and other resources) for encouraging the independent development of creative and innovative initiatives that contribute to the common good, free knowledge, and open code. We support projects with social, cultural, scientific, educational, technological, or ecological objectives that generate new opportunities for the improvement of society and the enrichment of community goods and resources.
Two fantastic years of crowdfunding for the platform Ulule A few weeks ago, one of the European crowdfunding leaders celebrated their two year anniversary. Alexandre Boucherot, co-founder and CEO of Ulule takes us back to the very beginning of this adventure and gives an outlook on 2013. Launched in 2010 in France and now available in 6 languages, with 1500 projects financed and more than 4 million Euros collected, Ulule is an undisputed leader of participative financing in Europe using a reward-based model. Their progress illustrates what an intense year it has been for crowdfunding: several projects collected record sums on Kickstarter, the American JOBS act politicized the subject by promoting equity, the sector was restructured around several professional companies, and, altogether, Ulule collected 3 million dollars in 2012, which is double the sum collected in 2011. With the crowdfunding market growing and beginning to become a real alternative to traditional financing, its market is becoming more populated and diverse.
Open Source Blueprint for a Sustainable Civilization One Community is open source project-launch blueprinting and free-sharing everything needed to simultaneously address all the challenges currently facing humanity and build 7 different sustainable village prototypes for sharing it. The 7 village prototypes will be the first of a global cooperative of self-replicating teacher/demonstration hubs purposed to share and spread this model for comprehensive sustainability and collaborative global change for The Highest Good of All. Our initial focus is the following areas: More specifically, we are designing and free-sharing everything needed for duplication of each component and/or all of One Community including: Everything we do is created without patents, copyrights, or limitations of use of any kind.
Search Whipcar for Montreal, canada Dear customers and friends, When we launched WhipCar in April 2010, we embarked on a very exciting mission. We were the first to offer car owners the chance to make better use of their cars and offset the rising costs of motoring by renting to their neighbours. Squatting : freegan.info As the housing crisis worsens, it is becoming mainstream knowledge that banks are warehousing empty homes because the buildings have higher apparent value on balance sheets than their actual monetary value on the open market. As of December 2011, many occupiers in the US and elsewhere are embracing a strategy of taking back those warehoused buildings and using them to use as homes and community centers. Open squatting is still very difficult, with lots of police evictions happening, but the basic skills needed to squat are becoming better known. 2012 could be the year of resurgence of widespread squatting in the US. In New York, Organizing for Occupation (O4O) is sharing skills on how to get in and get fixed up. How to Squat a Building This info, published as a pamphlet and retyped as a page on our site, has been around for some time and has been pasted at various places on the web. We’d welcome updates and comments.
Collaborative Consumption is Overrated Don't get me wrong, I like collaborative consumption. I think Airbnb makes the world a more interesting place, allowing people have more authentic travel experiences. I love TaskRabbit. Be The Change Earth Alliance Our Model for Social Change Our model for social change was developed over the course of several years, and continues to evolve as we explore the frontiers of the social change movement. It helps us to recognize the many interconnecting aspects of our work, and reminds us of the many ways that we can collaborate with people, organizations, resources and programs to affect the change we desire.
About the Program: Welcome Watch this! Underneath the mad scramble of materialist consumerism, like subterranean streams of consciousness . . . ever stronger peaceful resistance movements and counter cultures [are gathering], in which young people are already taking the lead. Joan Abbott-Chapman, 2000 The Redfish School of Change is a non-profit program designed for people who want to lead the way in creating ecological sustainability and social equity in their communities. Each student enters the program with a proposed Community Action Project (CAP) that they develop during the course of our unique field experience, and then work to implement after the program is over. As a participant in this intensive field school, you travel and visit the mountains, lakes and valleys or coastal communities in British Columbia.