Website: http://www.she-inc.org/ Description: A step-by-step case-study of successful methods for achieving community buy-in for solar cooking as well as training for building them. Shared by Mary Simonson and Nancy Bailey. Implementation Effort: Moderate Maximum Cost: Audience: Individuals, Communities #EconomicDevelopment #Technology #education #LivableCommunities

Website: http://barefootcollege.org Description: Training that addresses problems of drinking water, girl's education, health and sanitation, rural unemployment, as well as social awareness and the conservation of the organizations that already exist in the villages whose wisdom, knowledge and skills are neither identified, mobilized nor applied just because they do not have an educational qualification.The Barefoot College is a place of learning and unlearning. It's a place

Website: http://nrdc.org Description: NRDC's Action Center provides tools, tips and information you need to help protect the earth's extraordinary wealth of natural treasures. Sign up for free bi-weekly email alerts on urgent issues needing your immediate action, join our Activist Network. Allows users to send correspondence to government representatives. Why: Allows users to be informed about natural resource issues and respond to issues. Implementation Effort: Simple Audien

E-Stewards - Reducing High-Tech Toxic Export Website: http://www.ban.org Description: This site provides contacts for vendors providing appropriate high-tech recycling. Using appropriate recycling of high-tech disposal is the only way to avoid exporting escalating global trade in toxic, obsolete, discarded computers and other e-scrap collected in North America and Europe and sent to developing countries by waste brokers and so-called recyclers. Why: The e-Stewards are North A

Child and Family Wellness (CFW) Shops ​ The HealthStore model is a network of micro pharmacies and clinics whose mission is to provide access to essential medicines to marginalized populations in the developing world. Based on a unique collaboration of micro-finance and franchise models to keep costs down and provide consistent quality healthcare while providing income for a professional healthcare worker. The HealthStore outlets target the most common killer diseases includi

Website: http://www.keepingchildrensafe.org.uk/ http://www.keepingchildrensafe.org.uk/resources Email: jwijnants@keepingchildrensafe.org.uk "Keeping Children Safe Toolkits" and resources enable organizations, wherever they are in the world, to develop practical child protection procedures and give staff vital training and support. Why: Keeping Children Safe - a toolkit for child protection has been developed in collaboration with the NSPCC and a coalition of international age

Website: https://www.daysforgirls.org/ Email: info@daysforgirls.org Days for Girls International provides and teaches how to make washable sanitary hygiene kits. This helps women, communities and nations to enable women to have access to washable feminine hygiene supplies in order to live EVERY day of their lives. Request DfG Kits, help make DfG Kits, donate, or learn more about how to establish developing enterprises for communities to sustain DfG Kit distribution. Why: Arou

Website: http://rodaleinstitute.org/our-work/organic-no-till/ These are ecologically sustainable, environmentally responsible, socially just, economically viable, humanely managed. On mini-farms the following will double the yields and reduce the labor by half compared to traditional methods. Nothing to buy except seed. Conserves health of soil. Why: Workshops in organic, no-till, permanent bed gardening, mini-farming and mini-ranching worldwide in English & Spanish Workshop