These are my links for May 14th to June 8th:

• warehouse – The beinghuman warehouse in Frome, Somerset is a hub for creative, ethical & enterprising innovators. A 500 sq m space situated in the conservation area of town where beinghuman members can get away from home work, meet, connect and collaborate. The space is cool, contemporary, relaxed & inspirational. The strong, ethical warehouse design is in line with beinghuman’s sustainable ethos, with sheep wool insulation, recycled newspaper soundproofing, carbon neutral heating, power from renewable sources, wood burning stove & a garden incorporating an outdoor gallery space exhibiting the best in digital art.
• desksurfer – rent desks by the hour in london – DeskSurfer is for freelancers or busy people in need of a temporary office for an hour or two. Imagine having a meeting in London’s Soho area, it ends at 2pm, you want to stick around for a couple of hours as you have a meeting in Kings Cross but don’t have anywhere quiet to work. Then log onto DeskSurfer, find offices near you and rent a desk for an hour or two. Turn up. Work. Leave. It’s as simple as that. You might even make new friends/colleagues.
• crowdfunding / FrontPage – Crowdfunding can replace the need for specialized grant applications or other more formal and traditional fundraising techniques with that of a more casual, yet powerful, approach based on crowd participation. Examples of the basis of Crowdfunding can be seen in Cooperatives (co-ops) around the world. However, the Internet can provide new streamlined approaches to quickly imitating the co-op model for low-level and/or sudden needs (ie. disaster relief, travel expenses, legal fees and so on.). It is this reason that a term be used to encompass the act of informally generating and distributing funds, usually online, by groups of people for specific social, personal, entertainment or other purposes.
• IndieGoGo: Where Independent Happens – Welcome to IndieGoGo – the social marketplace where filmmakers and fans connect to make independent film happen. Filmmakers can raise money and awareness, find cast and crew, and gain credibility through the help of their number one resource, the fans. Fans get the opportunity to discover and impact the films of tomorrow, while getting insider access and VIP perks for their contributions. Check out How it Works for more.
• welcome to The Co-operative.tv | The Co-operative.tv – The Co-operative is a unique family of businesses owned by our members and led by our principles. From community projects to a share of the profits, renewable energy to Fairtrade products we believe that when the benefits are passed around, it's good for everyone. Our online TV channel gives you the chance to see our community projects come to life and learn more about our values and principles. Visit www.co-operative.coop for more about The Co-operative.

See also:

• Links for May 4th to May 12th
• Links for December 1st to December 8th
• Links for February 12th
• Links for April 12th to April 16th
• Links for May 20th to June 16th

These are my links for May 4th to May 12th:

• Hugh Jackman pledges $100k to charity on Twitter – Communications … –
• About Time Banking UK – Time Banking UK is the national umbrella charity linking and supporting time banks across the country by providing inspiration, guidance and mutual help. Time banks link people locally to share their time and skills. Everyone's time is equal: one hour of your time earns you one time credit to spend when you need.
• Just Add Spice – Our business is developing credit systems that engage and empower the many rather than the few. Spice is a social enterprise that develops credit systems for engaging people in communities and public services. Spice’s community credit systems have been tried and tested and are uniquely successful in dramatically increasing participation of community members in public services and in achieving community transformation.
• Valleys to Coast – Welsh Housing Association that accepts part-payment of rent in time credits! – V2C seeks to provide affordable good quality homes in vibrant and sustainable communities in an open and transparent manner and fully recognises the importance of this site in achieving that aim. Apparently they also accept part payment of rent in time credits!
• The Man Who Made Gmail Says Real-Time Conversation is What’s Next – NYTimes.com – The father of the best web email program on the planet believes that a real-time streaming interface for simplified aggregation of conversation and content from all around the web is going to join the handful of tools we use regularly, like email, IM and blogging.

See also:

• Links for April 12th to April 16th
• Links for February 15th to February 17th
• Links for April 29th to May 3rd
• Links for October 29th to November 3rd
• Links for May 6th to May 9th

These are my links for April 29th to May 3rd:

• » Twitter, the Most Important Website Since Google? – "When I first started using it I saw it as a networking and communication tool. The more I come to use it and the more I watch people from all walks of life using it I am starting to see why Twitter may possibly be the most important website since Google. To help you understand my logic I want to start with some thoughts on Google."
• Beth’s Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media: Twitter for Nonprofits: Waste of Time or Potentially Useful? – That's a screencast (with time speed increased) of what is I think — is a twitter group coming from SXSW Festival, a major new media/emerging technology event happening in Austin, TX. Twitter is a "Multi-Person SMS System" that lets you follow your friends via the web, IM, or cell phone and you broadcast what are you doing now an? While there are some good reasons why you wouldn't want to use this tool, seems there's a lot of twitter experimentation going on.
• Explaining Twitter in one page… : Tim’s Blog – What it says on the tin.
• 1%CLUB – GIVE 1% POVERTY AND HELP TO SOLVE – GIVE 1% POVERTY AND HELP TO SOLVE. If all 1% of his / her time, expertise or money commitment, we can solve structural poverty. WHO SAYS THAT? The 1% Club: an initiative that poverty in an innovative way to address. HOW DOES THE 1% CLUB? The 1% Club is an online marketplace for small-scale development projects, where individuals and companies 1% of their income, time and knowledge can contribute directly to a project of your choice.
• One Percent Club – Since 1997, the One Percent Club has grown from a handful of people with a passion for giving, to a large and very diverse organization of 1,000 members – and growing – who have pledged to give back to the communities and organizations they are passionate about. Our one percent benchmark for giving is a personal promise – based on the honor system – you make to yourself and the organization. We've found that by making this pledge, almost half of our members have actually increased their charitible giving after joining the One Percent Club – contributing over $100 million per year to the charities of their choice.
• Power of Us | Salesforce.com Foundation – Power of Us Partner Initiative. The Salesforce.com Foundation has greatly increased its platform by inviting salesforce.com's corporate partners to participate in its nonprofit efforts. By joining the 1% model and contributing a portion of their strength, salesforce.com partners can effectively contribute to the communities in which we live. The Salesforce partners program is designed so that a participant must be a registered partner in the salesforce.com Partner Program and must provide 2 of the following:
  * 1 % Equity (It is far easier to move stock into a foundation at an earlier stage.)
  * 1 % Product (in donated or discounted products and services for nonprofit organizations receiving license donations from salesforce.com foundation OR through the development of functionality that is uniquely relevant to the nonprofit sector.)
  * 1 % Time (in volunteer hours)

See also:

• Links for April 17th to April 29th
• Links for March 28th to April 10th
• Links for May 4th to May 12th
• Links for September 20th to September 24th
• Links for October 29th to November 3rd

These are my links for April 17th to April 29th:

• 1% For the Planet | About Us – It’s about businesses recognizing that industry and ecology are inherently connected. It’s about realizing the positive effects of connecting businesses, consumers and nonprofits through philanthropy. And it’s about understanding that the true cost of doing business can be mitigated by a simple pledge to the planet. Since 2002, 1% For The Planet has inspired members of the business community to contribute 1% of sales to environmental groups around the world. In return, this growing alliance of companies is given the opportunity not only to see their self-worth rise, but their net worth climb as well.
• One Percent Fund | Small grants for grassroots initiatives – On 30th September 1985 VSO and CUSO volunteers and staff working in Thailand pledged to donate 1% of their monthly stipend towards a fund that would support small-scale grassroots projects. The fund still exists over 20 years later.
• About 1% for Development – What is the 1% for Development Fund? An association of staff of the United Nations system and other intergovernmental organizations who have chosen to allocate 1% or more of their salary to projects in developing countries and those with economies in transition. The first 1% Fund was set up in Geneva in 1976; others were established in Rome, New York, Vienna and Paris. Though their objectives are the same, each 1% Fund operates independently. It is now possible, thanks to a revision in the statutes of the Fund, for non-UN persons to become members. Why 1%? In Resolution 2626 (XXV) of 24 October 1970, the UN General Assembly set a target for official development aid of 0.7% of the GNP of developed countries. Frustrated at the inertia of most countries concerned (they allocate on average 0.3% of their GNP) and of the UN system, a small group of international civil servants decided to start practicing what governments preached, by contributing 1% of their salary to development projects.
• The 1% for Development Fund – The 1% for Development Fund is an association comprised of staff and former staff members of the United Nations system. The Fund is independent of the United Nations organizations. The 1% for Development Fund was inspired by the long-standing target of the United Nations for the rich countries to transfer 1% of their income as aid to poor countries. The New York branch of the Fund was founded in 1984 and presently has over 100 members. Many of the staff working for organizations in the United Nations system like to make direct and personal contributions to development. If you do too, then the 1% Fund is for you!
• 1% for Development Fund – Vienna – Home Page – The 1% for Development Fund, Vienna, is an independent association of staff members and ex-staff members of the organizations of the UN system that are based here. It is entirely independent of the UN organizations themselves. The 1% Fund in Vienna was founded in 1985 and now has about 80 members. Members of the 1% Fund pledge to donate 1% of their salaries each month to support small scale development projects. There are similar 1% Funds in Geneva (founded in 1976), New York and Rome.
• Virgance: Activism 2.0 – The idea behind Greenfund is to create the first crowdsourced venture capital fund whereby we empower each and every person on all of the social networks to invest up to $100 dollars in Greenfund and become a voting partner of the fund. Greenfund then works with its members who vote to invest in the companies or projects that cause the most positive impact. If the hundreds of millions of people using Facebook and MySpace all signed up, Greenfund would be a multibillion dollar, community-powered fund that would rival the financial power of the World Bank.
• Openworld – Welcome – Welcome to Openworld! We offer new resources for the success of grassroots initiatives through cell phones and the Internet. Our "Seeds of Change" catalysts — including microscholarships, telework opportunities, and sustainability toolkits — help schools and healthcare providers lever new assets and transform business climates in economically challenged areas. Access to the Seeds of Change resources grows as communities give land grant endowments to entrepreneurial schools and clinics, and commit to business climate reforms that raise the value of these lands. Development of the new sites as free economic zones can generate rapid asset growth for the local education and health care ventures — and spread skills, jobs, investments, and innovations of value for the whole community.
• the hub Halifax » Home – Located on Barrington between Prince and Sackville, the hub is YOUR space downtown. Use it anytime as your office, a place to host important meetings, take out your laptop, get online and get stuff done, drink coffee and just hang out. Meet interesting people doing innovative things, come on down and print, fax, copy…
• The Fastest Growing Social Sites – Each month (and often more frequently than that) we take a look at trends in social networking, by the numbers. Recently, we’ve focused on Twitter’s astronomical growth – now up better than 2,500 percent in one year – and Facebook’s climb to become top social network over MySpace
• Environmental Showdown on the Irish Coast – The sprawling seaside villages around Ballinaboy in County Mayo are as close as you will find these days to the sheep-grazing greenery of postcard Ireland. In a country transformed by more than a decade of rapid and sometimes manic "Celtic Tiger" development, this community of farmers and fishermen in the country's remote northwest still resembles the Emerald Isle of popular and increasingly wistful imagination. It is a place where herds of sheep overtake cars on narrow roads, and where the "Land of 100,000 Welcomes" is more than a stale tourism slogan. It is one of the last corners of the country where Irish Gaelic is commonly spoken between neighbors.

See also:

• Links for April 29th to May 3rd
• Links for March 28th to April 10th
• My del.icio.us bookmarks for December 20th through December 30th
• Links for April 12th to April 16th
• Links for April 15th to April 21st

These are my links for April 12th to April 16th:

• Design Council | Directory listings | Events and competitions | Design in Alternative Futures – 2009 will be remembered as a year of global economic downturn, but what could this mean for the future of the economy, society and government? Will the downturn compel us to turn inwards, to become a nation of close knit families driven by individual needs? Or will it force unprecedented collaboration, creating a Britain that is focused upon the common good?
• The E. F. Schumacher Society • Community Land Trusts – A Community Land Trust (CLT) is a form of common land ownership with a charter based on the principles of sustainable and ecologically-sound stewardship and use. The land in a CLT is held in trust by a democratically-governed non-profit corporation. Through an inheritable and renewable long-term lease, the trust removes land from the speculative market and facilitates multiple uses such as affordable housing, village improvement, commercial space, agriculture, recreation, and open space preservation. Individual leaseholders own the buildings and other improvements on the land created by their labor and investment, but do not own the land itself. Resale agreements on the buildings ensure that the land value of a site is not included in future sales, but rather held in perpetuity on behalf of the regional community.
• Westminster Briefing » Blog Archive » Developing the Role of the Third Sector in Public Services: Building Capacity and Promoting Capability – The economic downturn has presented a challenging new environment in which the third sector must operate, with the importance of diversifying funding, innovative services and collaborating with partners key to surviving and flourishing over the coming year. Yet these circumstances also provide new opportunities for third sector organisations to expand their roles in public service delivery and put themselves at the forefront of commissioners minds as uniquely placed to provide responsive, community based and client focused initiatives. These issues have been recognised by the Government with the recent publication of ‘Real Help for Communities: Volunteers, Charities and Social Enterprises’, an action paln for the Third Sector.
• JonathanMelhuish.com – user experience designer fighting climate change with ethical consumption – This category features a series of interviews with many projects around the world that deliver ethical information to consumers. These podcasts are designed to give some background information on each project to help identify potential for collaboration between projects. We are also organising regular teleconferences aimed at sharing knowledge and facilitation collaboration.
• Funky Spaces | alternative, community and affordable business space in the Bristol area – Funky Spaces offers a variety of alternative, community and affordable business space for start up and small businesses in the Bristol area

See also:

• Links for April 9th to April 15th
• Links for April 15th to April 21st
• Links for April 17th to April 29th
• Links for March 6th to March 7th
• Links for March 24th to March 24th

These are my links for April 11th to April 12th:

• Third World Tech – Use what you have. Make what you need – Here at ThirdWorldTech.com we are collecting simple solutions to common problems faced by humanitarian aid workers, missionaries and disaster victims. Our links and articles cover many topics; from self sustaining agricultural methods, microenterprises, and many more. Please feel free to suggest an article or link!
• Ripplepay.com – Ripplepay.com is a payment system where you can be your own banker. Connect to your friends, family, and associates and your credit with them becomes a fully-functional currency
• ePoint Home – The ePoint system is a payment infrastructure for anonymous electronic transactions that is an amendment of the already popular methods used primarily in telephony (pre-paid phone cards), public transit (re-chargeable multiple passes) and various pay-per-view services. ePoints can be transfered just like any other information, in such a way that the recipient can be certain that the sender will not be able to use the same ePoint once more, because of the safety of the underlying protocol. The applications of the ePoint system can be as diverse as tracking assets in on-line games and on-line gift certificates for electronic commerce. So what is this ePoint thing? Our system aims to be a tool for simplifiing digital commerce, establishing a new tradition. ePoints are the units of payment.
• Scred – Banking 2.0. Scred is a Finnish company building tools and services to help friends, groups and communities manage their money, wherever they are. Pools are for simple tracking and balancing amongst friends, while MiniCorps allow you to track income and expenses, as well as actually sell items and receive money.
• Bitcoin.org – Open Source P2P Electronic Cash – Announcing the first release of Bitcoin, a new open source peer-to-peer electronic cash system that's completely decentralized, with no central server or trusted parties. Users hold the crypto keys to their own money and transact directly with each other, with the help of the network to check for double-spending.

See also:

• Links for April 24th
• Links for April 9th to April 15th
• Links for May 4th to May 12th
• Links for April 15th to April 21st
• Links for March 28th to April 10th

These are my links for March 28th to April 10th:

• Community Shares | – Community owned enterprises will benefit from an exciting new government-backed initiative which aims to stimulate investment through community share and bond issues. Community investment is different. Instead of turning to the private sector and wealthy individuals for support, community investment is about engaging communities to invest in themselves. By harnessing the collective investment powers of whole communities, large amounts of capital can be raised in small sums from members of the community. Be it a small village shop or large scale housing development, a community recycling project or major renewable energy scheme, they all have one thing in common – actively committed and motivated members who recognise the wider benefits of communities investing and engaging in their own solutions.
• Welcome To TINYTECH Plants – The company working for promoting tiny enterprises in various industrial fields, through human technology for rural development, local self reliance, poverty eradication, exploitation removal, employment and income generation.
• Transition Sweden – Svenska byar och städer ställer om – The Transition networing in Sweden.
• Ecology Begins at Home— Using the Power of Choice – A concise and powerful beginner’s guide to low impact living for all ages. Engages readers, gives hope, inspires to action. 128 pages of positive, practical guidance for making the world a better place, one step at a time. Available for free download and in paperback. Archie Duncanson, Green Books UK 2008.
• Open Direct Democracy – Welcome to Open Direct Democracy. This early development project that automatically fetches legal document from Althingi, the Icelandic Parliament and gives citizens features to interact with the legal process, like voting, commenting and changing. All content is in Icelandic. Feel free to fork the source code and build one for your own direct democracy.

See also:

• Links for September 20th to September 24th
• Links for April 17th to April 29th
• Links for May 4th to May 12th
• Links for April 12th to April 16th
• Links for March 24th to March 24th

These are my links for %date%:

• SolarReserve – Home Page – SolarReserve, backed by a strong portfolio of top tier financial firms and supported by an exclusive worldwide license from United Technologies, builds utility-scale solar power plants to deliver clean and renewable energy.
• Timelinks – Home – Timelinks is an international consortium of metropolitan planners, architectual designers and environmental scientists, applying sustainable technologies in urban design and development projects. Check out the Ziggurat project – a design for a self-sufficient city.
• The Vertical Farm Project – Agriculture for the 21st Century and Beyond | www.verticalfarm.com – A Potential Solution: Farm Vertically. The concept of indoor farming is not new, since hothouse production of tomatoes, a wide variety of herbs, and other produce has been in vogue for some time. What is new is the urgent need to scale up this technology to accommodate another 3 billion people. An entirely new approach to indoor farming must be invented, employing cutting edge technologies. The Vertical Farm must be efficient (cheap to construct and safe to operate). Vertical farms, many stories high, will be situated in the heart of the world's urban centers. If successfully implemented, they offer the promise of urban renewal, sustainable production of a safe and varied food supply (year-round crop production), and the eventual repair of ecosystems that have been sacrificed for horizontal farming.
• Thanet Earth – Thanet Earth is an exceptional greenhouse development based on the Isle of Thanet, in Kent. The largest greenhouse complex in the UK, with enough glass to cover 80 football pitches, Thanet Earth grows salad vegetables using state of the art technology and sophisticated growing techniques. We’re also incredibly environmentally friendly so that you can be sure that our tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers have a very low carbon footprint. We'll be adding to this site over the coming months, so please check back here to get the latest news from the greenhouses.
• Mathieu Lehanneur – Check out number 25 "Local River" for nice indoor aquaculture system designs.
• Locavores – We are a group of concerned culinary adventurers who are making an effort to eat only foods grown or harvested within a 100 mile radius of San Francisco for an entire month. We recognize that the choices we make about what foods we choose to eat are important politically, environmentally, economically, and healthfully. In 2005, we challenged people from the bay area (and all over the world) to eat within a 100 mile radius of their home for the month of August. In 2007 we extended that challenge to the month of September . We encouraged folks to try canning and preserving food for the wintertime. We hope you're enjoying your homemade creations.
• InfoViewer: Birmingham council plans municipal bank – Birmingham city council, the UK's largest local authority, is planning to create a bank to lend up to £200m ($294m) to small businesses. The bank, likely to be known by its folksy acronym – Bob – rather than its full name, the Bank of Birmingham, would also take retail deposits. It would aim to cushion damage to the local economy from the credit crunch. But it would also hark back to a municipal bank set up in 1916 by Neville Chamberlain, the Birmingham mayor who later became prime minister.
• Bank of Birmingham – Birmingham City Council is examining the feasibility of establishing a Birmingham Bank. Any enquires, proposals or suggestions about the bank should be sent to: Alison Jarrett, Assistant Director of Finance by email alison.jarrett@birmingham.gov.uk
• Welcome | National Accounts of Well-being – What are National Accounts of Well-being and why do we need them? nef has set out a radical proposal to guide the direction of modern societies and the lives of people who live in them. In contrast to the conventional narrow focus on economic indicators, it calls for governments to directly and regularly measure people’s subjective well-being: their experiences, feelings and perceptions of how their lives are going, as a new way of assessing societal progress.

See also:

• Links for March 8th to March 9th
• Links for May 20th to June 16th
• Links for September 5th to September 19th
• Links for March 6th to March 7th
• Links for March 7th to March 7th

These are my links for %date%:

• ECO tube – What’s your view – Aims to be a green youtube
• Ecomotion – Less of the virtual and more of the reality, Ecomotion is a green social networking site with a difference. We create the tools online, you create the action offline.
• Radical Routes – Practical Economics Conference & Workshops – How can we protect our remaining social and ecological resources from the convulsions of capitalism? ev
• Development Trust Association | Events | Stepping Up: Strategies for resilient communities in a time of economic downturn – The economic downturn will have far reaching impacts in every part of the country. If we fail to respond effectively, our communities will become fragmented and demoralised, with negative consequences for all of us. This national symposium will investigate how community groups, local authorities, and their public sector and private sector partners can “step up” in this time of adversity.
• Video for Drupal Multimedia Panel at DrupalCon | Aaron Winborn – "Here's the video for the Drupal Multimedia panel at DrupalCon. Presenting were Arthur Foelsche, Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg, and myself. By the way, the dev version of Embedded Media Field now supports Archive.org. Hopefully the Drupalcon site will install the module so we can see all the videos directly from that site; even if not, I'm sure it won't be long before someone takes advantage of it and posts a DrupalCon wall of Video…"

See also:

• Links for March 14th to March 23rd
• Links for March 28th to April 10th
• Links for April 12th to April 16th
• Links for November 20th to November 24th
• Links for March 6th to March 7th

These are my links for March 14th to March 23rd:

• Defra, UK – News – News releases 2009 – Third sector taskforce on climate change and environment launched – A new taskforce launched today will help the government and the not-for-profit sector to tackle climate change and environmental issues. The group will be jointly chaired by Defra, Department of Energy and Climate Change and Cabinet Office ministers and third sector representatives and aims to identify specific actions that Government and the third sector can take together to tackle climate change, environmental problems and sustainable development more broadly. The Department for Communities and Local Government will also be represented on the taskforce. Third sector co-chairs will be nominated at the first meeting.
• Category:Fiction – P2P Foundation – We're starting (August 2006), a new section for (science) fiction books, which shed light on P2P themes. Recommendations are more than welcome.
• Featured Videos | dotSUB – Welcome to dotSUB. See thousands of videos translated everyday here. To translate a video, Click Here to join and enter the world of Any Video Any Language.
• Insoshi Portal – Insoshi is a product and a project. The product aims to be the best open-source social networking platform. The project is to make the product! Since Insoshi is open source, you can download the code from our GitHub repository and make your own social network. If you'd like to kick the tires of the Insoshi application, check out the Insoshi demo site. Then stay in touch by joining the Insoshi developer site—which is powered by Insoshi!
• Ping.fm | drupal.org – Provides Drupal integration with the web service Ping.fm to make sharing posts on other social networks easy. Ping.fm supports posting to: Bebo, Blogger, Brightkite, Custom URL (Drupal), Facebook, FriendFeed, hi5, Identi.ca, Jaiku, LinkedIn, LiveJournal, Mashable, MySpace, Plaxo Pulse, Plurk, Pownce, Rejaw, Tumblr, Twitter, WordPress.com, Xanga.

See also:

• Links for March 24th to March 24th
• Links for May 6th to May 9th
• Links for March 11th to March 14th
• Links for March 28th to April 10th
• Links for March 8th to March 9th