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Sustainable Agriculture
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H2O Partners
A domain and evolving partnership-based framework within which to float a renewed Habitat II Online - h2o - project, incorporating the Habitat Partners Network, with a focus on water as a central issue, including a set of database-generated web pages for water bodies, their properties, and their relationships with other water bodies, with land bodies, and with countries, provinces, cities, towns, villages and communities - generated from a prototype digital engine database.
information-habitat.net/projects/h2o-part.htm
access to information,
habitat & human settlements,
information architecture,
interactive processes,
knowledge-based economics,
local governance,
ngo networks, committees & caucuses,
partnership,
peace,
sustainable agriculture,
sustainable development,
sustainable economics,
united nations,
water
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New York, NY
2003.10-
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Pumped Up for Peace
A project for young people to raise funds and awareness for freshwater-related projects in indigenous low-income communities developing countries. The project with a focus on support for low-cost, low-maintenance water pumps and water filtration systems for use in rural and agricultural communities and for education in sustainability and peace. The project was initiated in the NGO Committee on Education, and has been adopted by the United Nations CyberSchoolBus project.
information-habitat.net/projects/pufp.htm
children,
education,
peace,
sustainable agriculture,
sustainable development,
united nations,
water,
youth
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New York, NY
2003.05-
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Ad Hoc Sustainable Kitchen Caucus & Collective
Convened and managed an Ad Hoc Caucus of the CSD/NGO Steering Committee that provided inexpensive, healthy lunches - with a selection of breads, olives, natural spreads and salads - for NGO participants during the 6th Session of the Commission on Sustainable Development.
information-habitat.net/projects/ahskcc.htm
diet,
health,
sustainable agriculture,
sustainable development,
sustainable home economics
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New York, NY
1998.04-1998.05
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Sustainable Agriculture Caucus - CSD/NGO Steering Committee
information-habitat.net/projects/csd-sag.htm
sustainable agriculture
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New York, NY
1994.03-
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RIOD - Desertification Network
Active participant in setting up the structure for the desertification network, and support for use of electronic communications for exchange of information, news and plans, and for access to documents.
information-habitat.net/projects/riod.htm
access to information,
electronic publishing,
freshwater,
ngo networks, committees & caucuses,
public participation,
sustainable agriculture,
sustainable development,
united nations
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Geneva, Switzerland
1993.09-
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Friendly Green Cottage
information-habitat.net/projects/fgc.htm
biodiversity,
habitat & human settlements,
sustainable agriculture
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Cowden, United Kingdom
1993.03-1993.08
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Hands-on Healing
Although Hand-on Healing has had virtually no visibility, conceptually it is at the heart of the vision of Information Habitat and holds a vision - and encourages the practice - of discovering a wealth of opportunities to engage in hands-on healing relationships with the Earth and with other people - cultivating a living organic garden, preparation of healthy food, healing massage, picking up and recycling waste, and with hands on keyboards; discovering ways that electronic communication - with the new forms of public dialogue and access to information it makes possible - can become a healing force. in part by restoring common access to the properties of the whole, and making it possible for all voices to be heard.
information-habitat.net/projects/hoh.htm
diet,
health,
information ecology,
one light in all,
sustainable agriculture
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Baltimore, MD
1990.05-
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801 Homestead Street
Undertook major renovation of a dilapidated 1877 frame house and established an organic garden on the 1/3 acre estate that had been created by purchasing two adjacent lots. Removed plaster and lathe interior walls; weather-proofed house with storm windows, insulation and caulking; re-painted interior of the house; installed new wiring, etc.
Removed large quantities of trash and debris from the garden - much of which was buried in the garden - and set about restoring the garden, adding compost heaps and collecting many, many bags of leaves each fall to create a large collection of leaf mold to enhance the condition of the garden.
801 Homestead also served as an information hub - initially for a number of community-based organizations, including the Baltimore Area Recycling Coalition and the Baltimore Environmental Center, and subsequently for the US Citizens Network for UNCED and the International Synergy Institute, and was the original home of Information Habitat: Where Information Lives
information-habitat.net/projects/801-home.htm
biological diversity,
diet,
ecological design,
energy,
habitat & human settlements,
home ownership,
recycling,
sustainable agriculture,
sustainable home economics,
urban agriculture,
urban gardening
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Baltimore, MD
1984.12-1995.06
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Greater Waverly Urban Farming Cooperative
Set up neighborhood support network for urban farmers, established community garden on a 1/3 acre inner-city plot that sought to balance a small organic urban farm with an abundance of wildlife and biodiversity. Since 1991, the garden has been used by an alternative High School in the Baltimore City Public Schools.
information-habitat.net/projects/gwufc.htm
baltimore,
community-based organizations,
community development,
diet,
education,
environment,
health,
sustainable agriculture,
sustainable development
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Baltimore, MD
1981.04-1991.06
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609 Montpelier Street
Undertook comprehensive rehabilitation of a two-storey frame house and garden; installation of wood stove, floor vents and a whole house fan, storm windows, wall and ceiling insulation and electrical wiring; converted a former driveway into an organic vegetable garden; became the hub of the Chesapeake Energy Alliance and - after the accident at Three Mile Island (TMI) - the home for a pro se intervention in the TMI Unit I Restart proceedings of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
information-habitat.net/projects/609-mont.htm
diet,
document storage,
energy,
home ownership,
law and the courts,
sustainable agriculture,
sustainable home economics,
urban agriculture,
urban gardening
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Baltimore, MD
1974.06-1984.12
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