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Project Wadi Attir: Sustainable Desert Community in the Negev Desert in Israel

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The groundbreaking ceremony, attended by many dignitaries of the Bedouin community, government donors, and private sponsors was the official start of the project. Here you can download a project update. …

Women’s Education for Advancement and Empowerment (WEAVE): Job Opening

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The Women’s Education for Advancement and Empowerment (WEAVE) non-profit, based in Thailand, has two current job openings for individuals that have a working knowledge of the refugee situation along the Thai/Burmese border. …

Cornerstone Laying Ceremony for Project Wadi Attir

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It will be seen as a significant achievement that so may diverse groups in Israel– government ministries and agencies, research institutions and kibbutzim, got inspired by the Wadi Attir project and have joined in a unified effort to collaborate with the Bedouins of Hura.…

Is Sustainable Development a Utopian Quest?

Is Sustainable Development a Utopian Quest?

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Proposals for utopian projects and speculative works in the utopian genre tend to focus on solving a central social problem, predominantly the inequality of socioeconomic class status and its related problems of poverty. This article applies the Five Core Principles test to a sustainable project currently under development in Peru…

Poverty-Spot Tourism: An invitation from South India

Poverty-Spot Tourism: An invitation from South India

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SPEED Trust has formed an alliance with two additional organizations working with the destitute and disabled in Chennai: 1) the GRRC and, 2) LEED Trust to provide for a new form of tourism. They have jointly formed Human Trip India a consortium of local, reliable organizations, acting in…

A River of Light in the Desert

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There is a new vision and model project for the Middle East. It is being developed by The Sustainability Laboratory in the Negev desert in Israel. This article outlines why there is hope for this new vision.

Why the name “SedonaCyberLink”?

Why the name “SedonaCyberLink”?

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The other day I ran into a journalist friend in the grocery store. “How is the ‘Save-the-Word’ Business?” he asks. That solicited a flash of a smile and a giggle from me. He had delivered the question in a half-serious, half-joking manner, so when I laughed he responded…

Five Core Principles of Sustainability

Five Core Principles of Sustainability

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The concept of “sustainable development,” as coined by the World Commission on Environment and Development and with it, the term “sustainability” itself, have been gaining increasing recognition in recent years all around the world. Wide-spread use, however, has been followed by growing ambiguity so that today both terms are employed…

Vision for the Future

Vision for the Future

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On June 3rd, 2010 the Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI) held a day-long symposium at American University featuring presentations by all 2010 finalists of a BFI 'Challenge' contest for architecting the future. This article provides a link to the keynote address by Dr. Michael Ben Eli. …

The World As It Is

The World As It Is

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Over the past year I have had a chance to see the spread of culture and human civilization as it has splayed itself out over the land and through the centuries, both in the Orient and in the Occidental world. Many of the places I go are way off the…

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