Links for February 5th

These are my links for February 5th:

• elderwomanblog: Turning Green – Part 3 – our national and global economic systems are all based on a growth model rather than a sustainability model. And since every one of us is part of both a national and a global economic system, the systems need us to keep consuming so that the growth can co
• Practical Answers – Practical Action’s technical briefs ? introductory factsheets and basic practical information ? have been written in response to the demand for information on a broad range of appropriate technologies. They can be downloaded free of charge from this s
• Links: compost toilets – From LILI the Low Impact Living Initiative, links about compost toilets
• Devon Community Supported Farming — [RC 1] – South Devon Community Supported Farming group (CSF): * Organises community crop planting, weeding and harvesting days * Offers other low or no-cost family-friendly events such as fungal forays, bug hunts and rural skills training events * Helps re-connect
• Education for sustainable development, sustainable living, school curriculum – RAISE – RAISE – education for sustainable development RAISE Education RAISE (Rural Arts In Science Education) is an education for sustainable development project based at Beenleigh Meadows Farm near Totnes in South Devon providing a curriculum for learning the pr
• Opina: gestor de encuestas – Trac – An open source poll/ survey/ questionaire manager
• DoMyStuff.com – Outsource your life – DoMyStuff.com provides a marketplace where anyone looking to outsource chores, errands, or projects can locate (and do business with) responsible and experienced local help. At DoMyStuff.com, you can have all your chores completed by SOMEONE ELSE – all f
• Work Together: 60+ Collaborative Tools for Groups – With businesses and families spread out more and more, we?ve dug up 60+ sites that will help everyone be on the same page.
• Hivurt Revolution – This blog about new content management system Hivurt, based on Zope3, Python and other good open source technologies.
• Welcome to Hivurt ? Open Source Content Management System – Hivurt is a content management system powered by a component architecture. It gives you the strength of Zope 3 in an easy to use environment. It allows you to easily switch between ZODB and PostgreSQL data storage and features search and indexes, an easy
• CMS Toolbox: 80+ Open Source Content Management Systems – A content management system, or CMS, is the easiest way to get a content driven site up and running fast. Frequently, they?re also used for building social networks. We?ve rounded up more than 80 popular CMSs due to reader requests. For the sake of br
• [Zope-Annce] Hivurt new open source CMS 0.1.3pre-alfa released – Key Solutions (https://keysolutions.ru/) and Hivurt team (https:// hivurt.org/) proud to announce first public release of our Zope3- based content management system. Hivurt giving you strength of Zope 3 in easy to use environment. This is release aimed for
• my-guides.net – How to create a custom DVD using DeVeDe – This guide describes how to copy, split or customize your legally purchased DVD-9 disks in order to have a back-up of them using DVDFab Platinum ! DVDFab is able to remove almost any copy protection from the dvd disk such as CSS, RC, RCE, APS, UOPs, ARccO
• Alledia – The Joomla SEO Club and Joomla SEO Book – A good Joomla site with good articles comparing it to other CMSs and stuff
• Scratch | About – Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art — and share your creations on the web. Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learni
• Michael Linton on Open Money ~ Chris Pirillo – “Markets are conversations, and if there is no money around the conversation goes away. Money is the medium. Conventional money carries one way, open money carries in others. Open money is to normal as a laser is to a flashlight. Money is the ultimate soc
• Gnomedex Day 2 | Blog World Expo Blog – “Michael Linton has caught my attention with his Open Money presentation. I will update after I figure out what he is exactly talking about, but whatever it is it?s interesting.”
• Price of food soars to all-time record – Record high grain prices and energy bills have forced up the cost of food production
• Eco-Economy Indicators: Ice Melt Accelerates Around the World – Recent years have seen ice melt accelerate and spread to new, previously unaffected regions. In many areas, the pace of melting has surprised even the scientists studying it most closely, providing a strong early indication that the consequences of climat
• The Low Carbon Show – Transition Towns Conference – This programme features interviews with people involved in transition towns projects recorded at the Transition Network inaugural conference. It provides a snapshot of the many and diverse projects now underway.
• CamStudio – Free Screen Recording Software – CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs)
• Magento – Home – Open Source eCommerce Evolved – “Magento is a new professional open-source eCommerce solution offering unprecedented flexibility and control. With Magento, never feel trapped in your eCommerce solution again.”
• Designing for Civil Society: Do communities need boundaries? – collaborations, these depended on the development of shared understanding and trust. This could best take place within a community, and communities need some boundaries. That community might be an organisation, or people with a set of shared interests….
• Goodreads | get book recommendations from people you know – Have you ever wanted a better way to: * see what your friends are reading? * keep track of what you’ve read and what you’d like to read? * get great book recommendations from people you know?
• A Commons for Creators or Consumers? « kNOw Future Inc. – Two divergent and clashing conceptions in the use of CC licenses become evident. The first employs them as instruments designed to guarantee access.The ?commons? that this model aspires towards is one based only on consumption. …nThe second focuses
• SWOP – Semantic Web-based Open engineering Platform – an open, semantic, standard-based, distributed engineering platform, including multi-dimensional constraint-based and decision-making ICT tools, for – fast and flexible production of customised, but “industrialised” complex solutions, – with intensive inp