Collaboration is what’s needed.
An old idea but a good one.
Collaboration is what happens when you add an idea (like peace, or forgiving Third World debt) to a product.
No reason why this form a collaboration can’t be done by almost anyone anywhere – associate a noble idea (noble ideas probably work best) with a product, and sell both!
Lots of folks have caught on to the idea that what we call “sustainability” must work inside “community” for sustainability to work. And indeed, for community to work.
Speaking of collaboration, we can easily find groups involved in the environment (i.e. sustainability) – let’s use this one as an example:
and groups involved in various aspects of community – let’s site one that acts as a kind of connector of communitarians, the Fellowship for Intentional Community. Who in their Summer, 2009 issue expresses a need for increasing publication circulation in order to stave off dire consequences.
Oh look, the cover states, Ecology and Community…what say we bring two organizations together, two such as these, and see what a collaborative effort could bring about?
Environmental Defense Fund meets Amnesty International. What?
Another example of lateral vs. vertical thinking – death, destruction, refugees – responses to resource scarcity, e.g. Rwandan genocide or Darfur.
Environmental catastrophe can have a direct impact on human rights – let’s work together to combat the root causes.
Our first effort at developing a collaborative effort between two organizations. This is an active site.
Right Fish Wrong Fish presents information selected mainly from two groups, Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation, and Marine Stewardship Council.
RFWR shows which fish are healthy to eat and sustainable and which are not. We gather information from two separate and leading organizations and present what we select in one place: Right Fish Wrong Fish.
There are several very good organizations whose objective is the identification of people and environments in immediate risk, and the implement actions to address these issues. In development – not active site.