Sustainable Community Development

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Comment by Rachel Zedeck on February 18, 2010 at 8:13am

Hello dev group... I hope everyone is having a great new year. I woudl apprecaite if you could please help me network our new fundraiser on kickstarter to finance a sustainable eco-farm microfinance scheme in Meru, Kenya. You can read more here: http://tinyurl.com/yep7gsa

Feel free to send me questions directly or post them online. I plan on updating it early next week with new pictures of the women's group.

Comment by Rachel Zedeck on October 15, 2009 at 2:57am

Good Morning

Please come follow the Backpack Farm on http://twitter.com/backpackfarm - www.backpackfarm.org We represent practical, sustainable and commercial dev models rolled into one. I regularly post on development, food security, women's issues, water and of course microfinance.

Look forward to seeing you online.

Rachel

Comment by K. Malhotra on July 23, 2009 at 11:37am

For folks interested in sustainability at-large, I highly recommend reviewing the following sustainability sites, frameworks and concepts (they can be found through major internet search engines):
- The Natural Step Canada
- The Five Captials
- Forum for the Future
- The Ecological Footprint
- Transition Towns
- UN Millennium Development Goals
- Agenda 21

Comment by Mustafa Nasereddin on October 15, 2008 at 4:18pm

Hi everybody! I joined Development Crossing recently and established a group for discussing water management issues, If you are interested you can search on (Integrated Water Resources Management)
Catch you later!
Mustafa

Comment by JD Polk on August 24, 2008 at 1:07pm

I have an agenda.....

My life's goal is to have all residential property co-generating electricity in North America by 2025. Little know fact it's only 25% of entire North American Grid Consumption.
This is attainable we have the technology and the man-power.....
We must start now!!!
Time for talk is over.....

I have introduced the Boldest Solar/Housing Initiative yet
To date…
Entire subdivisions of low-cost Modulars with little to no electric bill that retail from $79,900 to $149,900 680sq 2/1 to 1380sq 3/2
Meets the need for low-cost housing and helps over Stressed Grid during PEAK_USAGE hrs. As these subdivisions go on-line they will act as virtual mini-generating stations.

As well as helps the environment…
win-win-win.
It is the short term solution to a long term problem.......

I have relocated to South Georgia....
it is time to enlist All the help with this I can get.
I need more R & D with my new patent Idea an will be asking for Ga Tech's help.....with the SOLAR POWERED RECIRCULATOR GENERATOR which will drive the cost of production down by almost 60%.
And will also be going back to Washington DC in this election year to demand more from our "so called elected or soon-to-be-elected officials".

I am in negotiations with Roger Little of Spire Solar in Mass to build a 100mw manufacturing plant in Liberty County Ga.

My plan is simple mix Roger's little assembly line with Rapid Modular’s walling panels to produce under one roof the LOW-COST
Structures of the future.


By building our own PV and being the one of only 2 proposed PV plants in the entire southeast US. We will capture this market in FL, GA, AL, and SC, NC. Simply by cutting down on the cost of shipping we will be the viable option for all of the Solar Retailers in the Region.

The World Bank as well as Credit Suisse and The Asian Development Bank like the idea of low cost Modulars and Solar power in one so well once up an operational they wish to bring it to China and India……. http://push.pickensplan.com/profile/JDPolk

Comment by p.krishnamurthy on August 24, 2008 at 3:16am

the entire community must have the capacity to catch their own fish,not giving fish by thesomebody else, our A.P Govt is throughing fishes in to the community , it could not be a sustainable community development.

Comment by Erle Frayne Argonza on May 28, 2008 at 11:04pm

Good morning, Partners! I have begun to share notes about my diverse development experiences (pls see blog articles). My community development engagements are already incorporated in the welter of development experiences. Happy viewing!

Comment by K. Malhotra on May 10, 2008 at 2:16pm

I am interested in models/frameworks that folks are using for sustainable community development. If you are using a specific approach and can share, that would be great! You can vist the one we are using at http://www.atlanticsustainability.ca/partners/antigonish.htm

Comment by Keith Vann on May 4, 2008 at 7:34pm

Sadly, I believe that the current global corporate economic paradigm is unsustainable, and is due to fatally implode within the next decade. Along with its demise will likely go the primary means of subsistence for most of the people on this planet.

I see severe energy, water, and food shortages, and lethal pandemics as the key reasons, but I also believe that the downfall of corporate globacracy will be partially orchestrated by the actions of peaceful saboteurs who truly love this planet and its potential to harmoniously support all life.

That said, I wish to learn as much as I can about the principles of sustainable communities, biosystems, and economies in order to aid in the intelligent resurgence of the human presence on this planet.

Comment by Suzi High on April 17, 2008 at 5:30am

Without using the Community Development Approach, development doesn't actually work, as the people need to engage with development, not have it done to them. We have all the technology to sort the problems we have created, we need to focus on community interaction.

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