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The Roads of Emerald City: Urban Eco-Artist Pioneers
From Kickstarter: This is another awesome project listed on Kickstarter. The goal of this endeavor is to rehabilitate run down neighborhoods in Kansas City and transform them into a place for learning, art, and sustainable living. The donations for this cause will be used to help with construction costs for the New Education Learning Center and a documentary that covers the process. I’m proud to say that I’m on the board of advisers for the Individual Sovereign University, who is the parent entity behind this project. Please support our efforts to transform neglected neighborhoods into a self-sustaining environment for education, [...]
Freight Farms: Grow Fresh Food in Any Environment
From: Kickstarter This is a very interesting and ingenius way to bring sustainable fresh farm produce to any urban community. The beauty of this design is the use of shipping crates, making the farms modular, expandable and portable. This project is a very worthy cause to support, it’s also a model that can be mimicked in a multitude of ways. They also have some very unique and awesome rewards for different tiers of pledges. About this project Current science and technology can now support food production in a way that is more sustainable than traditional commercial farming. By applying these [...]
99% (The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film)
From: Kickstarter Whether you agree with the tactics of the Occupy Wall Street movement or not, this is an important historical effort to fund. I personally watched some of the eviction action at Zucotti park in New York, live on Ustream. This collaborative project is an exciting idea, that will show what occurred at different locations from multiple viewpoints. On Oct 1, 2011 a few award-winning filmmakers in NY teamed up to make a collaborative film about the Occupy Wall Street Movement. They called and wrote to their filmmaker friends, and they to theirs. Soon, there were over 60 people [...]
Liberty in Our Lifetime
From: Kickstarter The libertarian philosophy of the Free State Project activists harmonize with the goals of post political. We both agree that true power lies in the individual, and that you can have a life full of abundance through mutualist and voluntaryist exchanges. In an educational sense, this documentary is an important tool to help spread new ways of thinking that will hopefully spur innovation. Learn more about the Free State Project and Keene, New Hampshire with links below. http://freestateproject.org/ http://freekeene.com/ Liberty in Our Lifetime is a feature length documentary about the activists that have picked up their lives and [...]
LuminAID: An Inflatable Solar Light
From IndieGogo. This simple but ingenious inflatable solar lamp is a great tool for outdoor trekking or emergency situations. The LuminAID team, also has a goal to bring this affordable and sustainable technology to those less fortunate around the globe. This campaign is another great example of people taking action and having success with the help of others. LuminAID: Give Light, Get Light from LuminAID Lab on Vimeo. LuminAID: Give Light, Get Light About the Project LuminAID Lab is proud to introduce the LuminAID light: a solar-rechargeable, inflatable lamp that packs flat and inflates to create a lightweight, waterproof lantern. Safe, [...]
Jonathan Zittrain: The Web as random acts of kindness
In this TED video, Zittrain shows that despite the perception of the internet as a cold unfriendly place, the exact opposite can be true. This is a very informative talk about the internet from a voluntaryist perspective. The social dynamic of the internet is a framework that we can use in the world offline. There are untold instances of people helping online in numerous ways, motivated by their own internal passion instead of money. The internet is anarchy, a realm with no rulers where you can choose the information, tools, resources and people to enhance your reality. The ‘crowd’ is [...]
Help A Liberty Activist Finish Graduate School
UPDATE on Catherine and new ChipIn: “Hey folks – I am $920 away from my goal of finishing grad school! Last semester, with your help, I accomplished two “B” grades – something I am really proud of since I started 4 days after I had baby! Help me finish! I’m taking my capstone and a class on fighting terrorism. Voluntaryism!” ~ Catherine Bleish Liberty activist Catherine Bleish, is seeking to complete her masters degree after years of focus on political activism. Catherine’s passion for liberty has lead her to many successful achievements. Her investigative work helped uncover government [...]
Orbit: A Swiveling Smartphone Suction Mount
From Kickstarter Sometimes we simply post something cool and useful, well this is one of them. ABOUT THIS PROJECT Thank you for checking out our project. Our guiding principle is to do more with less, and with this little guy we call the Orbit we believe we found the perfect harmony between form and functionality. The Orbit is truly the simplest device allowing you to make the most of your cell phone, iPod (and soon the iPad as well!) by giving you the ability to securely mount your device practically anywhere, and leaving your hands free to be more productive. What does [...]
Pop-Up Co-Op
From Kickstarter This project has two awesome goals, build a worker-owned grocery store and provide organic produce to a neighborhood that doesn’t have vegetables. Lets help this project succeed, and with their success, people will see the benefits of starting a Co-Op. ABOUT THIS PROJECT Plant the seeds for a worker-owned grocery store! Can you think of a way to provide affordable organic produce to a neighborhood with no vegetables AND promote radical access to work, a living wage, and ownership for young people who have spent time on the street? Don’t worry—Sweetwork Project, Inc. has. It’s a worker-owned organic grocery store in West [...]
The Living Farm’s Trees for Education
From Kickstarter During these unpredictable economic times, being self-sufficient as much as possible is the best way to minimize any negative impact on your livelihood. Having the knowledge to grow your own food would keep your family feed, and with the excess, provide local food for the community. The Living Farm seeks to teach students sustainable farming techniques, increasing the number of organic farmers in the country. Increasing the number of local farmers is a cause we can all benefit from. The Living Farm has been raising sheep, pigs, chickens, turkeys, cows, hay, silage, vegetables, and grains for over three [...]
Urban Free Farm: Producing Free Food in Brooklyn!
From Kickstarter We love projects that seek to turn vacant lots into something useful. Bushwick City Farms intends to transform this neglected space into a community farm, growing organic food and giving it away for free! They also seek to use the space for raising free range chickens and providing an educational experience for the community and surrounding schools. Bushwick City Farms is an open space run by neighborhood volunteers that provides free food, clothing and educational programs for the community. Centered in the heart of Bushwick, Brooklyn, the farm creates a unique opportunity to experience active models [...]
Alchemy Collective: A Worker-Owned Cafe
This Kickstarter project seeks funding for a hand-built espresso cart that will be open 5 days a week. They also intend to launch a Co-Op coffee shop in the future with any funds left over. Besides launching a tasty coffee shop, they hope to demonstrate the success a small business can achieve with the cooperative model. ABOUT THIS PROJECT Hey, thanks again for checking out our Kickstarter page! Alchemy Collective started with a couple of ambitious baristas envisioning the perfect cafe. It seemed like no matter where we went, something was off — poor or inconsistent quality, low worker morale, [...]
MILK NOT JAILS
From Kickstarter Milk Not Jails is a very innovative project that seeks to reform New York’s prison system by changing the economic relationship between urban and rural areas. Their goal is to provide an economic base for the rural farming community, that would offset the revenue lost from decreasing prison jobs. ABOUT THIS PROJECT Eating ice cream every day can actually make the world a better a place with the new dairy brand, MILK NOT JAILS. The Big Idea: Rural New York is home to 90% of the state’s prisons, which provide jobs in a depressed rural economy. [...]
Waking Up: An Open Source Movie
A Film In The Making “Waking Up” is a film about a positive future for Humanity. For a change. It is an ‘open source’ movie, meaning that others can contribute to the writing of the story, the script and to the realization of the film in general through this website. If you have trouble watching the clip here, or would like to contribute with a translation, you can go to the YouTube version. This is a submission to Cinema Out of Your Backpack cinemaoutofyourbackpack.com. The scene made it to the shortlist! The film is about Ben, who froze himself down in 2010, in the hope [...]
Help Freeman Take The Revolution To The Streets!
Internationally-known award-winning TV producer, film maker, radio talk show host and lecturer Freeman, is seeking donations to purchase a bus in order to bring the solutions to the people. His dream is to travel around the country and share his amazing experiences and knowledge with others. He hopes to inspire people to live free, and work together with others to create a better world. He is seeking $6,500 for the Type One Roadshow Tour Bus, that’s $27.50 from 200 people. Help Freeman bring his positive energy and knowledge of self-sufficiency to the people directly. We’re going to bust out and [...]
Help Send Fr33 Aid To Libertopia
We have featured the great people at Fr33 Aid before, here, they were successful raising enough funds to attend Porcfest 2011 and provide medical assistance. Teresa Warmke from Fr33 Aid, provided me with an update recently, she said they raised enough to reimburse startup costs and print more T-shirts for additional fundraising. They received several thanks and compliments from the attendees about the service they provided, you can read Fr33 Aids account of Porcfest 2011 here. Fr33 Aid is now seeking help to cover the costs to attend Libertopia 2011 in San Diego in October. Lets help these wonderful healers expand [...]
Global Village Construction Set
We previously posted this amazing open source project in the early stages of development, there has been significant progress since so here is an update. Open Source Ecology is a network of farmers, engineers, and supporters that for the last two years has been creating the Global Village Construction Set, an open source, low-cost, high performance technological platform that allows for the easy, DIY fabrication of the 50 different Industrial Machines that it takes to build a sustainable civilization with modern comforts. The GVCS lowers the barriers to entry into farming, building, and manufacturing and can be seen as a life-size lego-like set of modular tools that [...]
The Dinner Garden
“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” The awesome folks at The Dinner Garden want to help people grow food for eating and income by providing seeds, gardening advice and supplies for free! They currently need donations to cover the costs for a membership to GrantStation, which will help to keep their operation running. We need a membership to Grant Station. This will help us in our fundraising efforts We have over 50,000 families on our waiting list for seeds and we [...]
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