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Street Party - Meet your Neighbours in your Traffic-free Street About Us OpenIDEO is a place where people design better, together for social good. It's an online platform for creative thinkers: the veteran designer and the new guy who just signed on, the critic and the MBA, the active participant and the curious lurker. Together, this makes up the creative guts of OpenIDEO. To become a place where good ideas gain momentum, OpenIDEO depends on participation — your inspirations and research, his comments, her ideas, our design process. It's these efforts, these big and small moments of sharing and collaboration, that make this platform a dynamic resource for tackling significant global challenges. IDEO, a design and innovation firm, developed OpenIDEO as a way to include a broader range of people in the design process through Research, Ideas and Evaluation. Principles of the OpenIDEO Community Principle #1: Inclusive Recognise and enable all levels of participation from different disciplines. Principle #4: Optimistic Stay optimistic!

Les définitions de la santé | Primer on Public Health Population La santé est encore plus difficile à définir que la maladie. Les définitions ont évolué au fil du temps. Toujours d'un point de vue biomédical, les premières définitions de la santé portaient sur le thème de l'aptitude de l'organisme à fonctionner; on considérait la santé comme un état de fonctionnement normal pouvant être perturbé à l'occasion par la maladie. La santé en tant que ressource La perception de la maladie est passée d'un état à un processus, et ce même changement est survenu dans les définitions de la santé. Regard sur l'évolution de… Le mieux-être L'introduction de ce chapitre portait sur les aspirations croissantes de la population et sur la reconceptualisation de la maladie et de la santé qui en découle. Compte tenu de la multitude de maladies à traiter, les médecins doivent-ils se préoccuper du mieux-être? Les discussions portant sur le mieux-être ont desserré l'emprise du modèle biomédical. Figure 1.4 Mandala de la santé Figure 1.5. La médecine intégrative

Local Currencies: Communities Printing Own Money To Keep Cash Flowing UPDATE: USA Today's reporting on local currencies gives the impression that this is a NEW phenomenon born from the recession. Rather, many of these programs have existed for some time. The organization that runs BerkShares, told Huffington Post that it has been producing currency since 2006, well before the financial crisis dominated headlines. Read the article from USA Today on local currencies. A small but growing number of cash-strapped communities are printing their own money.Borrowing from a Depression-era idea, they are aiming to help consumers make ends meet and support struggling local businesses. Do you know of other local currencies that have been circulated in response to the recession? Keep reading for more info on local currencies: The Detroit News expands on the movement, with an article on its local currency, "Detroit Cheers," which was re-born from the Depression era push to create currencies. Below is a slideshow of some of the local currencies out there:

TRAPESE - Popular Education Collective Historique de la Clinique communautaire | Clinique communautaire de Pointe-Saint-Charles La Clinique communautaire de Pointe-Saint-Charles est mise sur pied par des étudiants en médecine, en soins infirmiers et en sociologie de l’Université McGill qui sont préoccupés par le peu de services médicaux dans le quartier. Ces étudiants sont inspirés par le modèle des cliniques populaires existant dans certains quartiers pauvres des États-Unis. Selon ce modèle de médecine communautaire il existe un lien entre la pauvreté, les conditions de vie et l’état de santé. Des citoyen-ne-s du quartier sont rapidement intégrés au projet. C’est la première clinique communautaire établie dans un quartier populaire au Québec. On y pratique la médecine familiale et les gens du quartier peuvent recevoir des services médicaux gratuitement, et surtout, on s’attaque aux causes de la maladie. A cette époque, outre les étudiants en médecine, le personnel comprend une infirmière, un médecin à demi-temps et un psychologue. La Clinique est incorporée et obtient sa charte d’organisme communautaire.

Embassy Network Guests are a cornerstone of our house and we love having new (and familiar) people stay with us. This isn’t your typical B&B – it’s more of an adopted family. We’re working on the hypothesis that density breeds ideas and collaborations, and that’s a big part of what we hope to foster here. We know and expect that guests are usually traveling for specific projects and collaborations. Events To aid in your enthusiasm, we try to keep the house lively, fun and interesting, with anything from casual chats in the evenings to movie nights, dinners, performances and salons. Projects As a community house there are also many ways you can contribute! Home Finally, one of our most important traditions is Sunday night dinner: our weekly community meal with new and familiar faces, boisterous conversation, many helping hands, and most importantly, our way to say Thanks to all the amazing people we know.

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Great! The next step is to verify your address. There was a problem connecting your Facebook account. Please sign in to Nextdoor Design District to continue. If you don't have an account, sign up. Nextdoor The private social network for neighbors in Design District. San Francisco, CA Map data ©2014 Google Terms of Use Connect your Nextdoor account Sign in to your Nextdoor account to connect it to your Facebook account. Forgot your password Don't have an account? Flag thisthese s for review Please select a reason for flagging this Connected Consumption Principal Investigators: Juliet Schor Associated Researchers and Staff: The 2008 economic downturn has undermined economic security for many, bringing in its wake increased levels of unemployment and under-employment—especially for youth—along with reductions in wealth and heightened economic fear and insecurity. Connected consumption, characterized by other names such as “collaborative consumption” (Botsman and Rogers, 20101) and the “new sharing economy”, is based on a culture of access, use, and re-circulation of used goods as alternatives to traditional private ownership. Blogs Updates A Guide to Connected Learning Sessions At DML2013 Compiled by Courtney Santos and Amanda Wortman An innovative solution to addressing youth unemployment With under 100 days to go until the November election in the US, we can expect to hear a lot more about jobs and employment. Economic Fallacies: Wrong-headed Ideas About Worktime

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