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Hello Arntech,Happy New Year to you and yours. Thank you for checking out my site at WiserEarth. I looked at your resources and, IS THERE A WAY to get access to them from my site? Maybe send me a friend request, that I can then accept? My name is William "Leland" Luster, I live in Las Vegas,Nev.
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Yes, yes, yes. Five stars for this!
Thanks Angus for starting this suggestion, Mike for somehow managing to remember and dig out that comment of mine! Randy for sharing those stories and Phil for the assesment tool.
Some thoughts:
WE on mobiles More cheap phones (from China) are equipped with Java MIDP 2.0, which allows for installing Opera Mini, most popular and usable mobile browser to date that saves bandwidth by loading text-only or reducing quality of images. The latest version is good for opening just about any page, and clicking on any link (add to watchlist, show history, etc.) on WE.
Two major deficiencies however: commenting and editing doesn't work. We may want to provide a fallback option for commenting, which is by switching to text-only comment box instead of the current rich-text one. As for editing, I would opt that we keep this for mobile browsers that can handle rich-text only to maintain quality of pages being edited.
Mobile browsers While Opera Mini is highly popular and versatile, other more capable mobile browsers is maturing up and getting closer and closer to desktop browsing experience. There are Opera Mobile, Symbian Browser, Mobile Safari on iPhone, Skyfire (can watch YouTube and many other video sites, high AJAX-compatibility), Google Android's browser and Blackberry's browser.
Saving bandwidth There are tools (free ones and subscribtion-based one) that compresses the data streamed between the website and the desktop and mobile browsers. They can even help strip images off or reduce the quality (thus significantly reducing amount of data to be downloaded). The principle is similar to Opera Mini, but allows for usage with desktop and mobile browsers.
Free ones: t-booster (www.t-booster.com) and toonel (www.toonel.net). I've tested both on my computer and got them to work ok. Needs Java Virtual Machine installed. They should be working on browsers of mobile phones too.
Subscription-based one: onspeed (www.onspeed.com) and propel (www.propel.com). Need to install software on pc. Works the same way as t-booster and toonel.
These services allow for saving bandwidth while retaining the full feature set of WE.
There are also web-based services like Skweezer which was mentioned on my comment Mike quoted:
All can reduce bandwidth by either stripping images off or reducing the quality and size. Only MobileLeap allow login however (with significant loss of usable features).
The Gmail case study
Gmail provides a very interesting approach to make their services accessible via any browser on any OS and device. Full version: mail.google.com (with chat, ajax, rich-text, images, etc.) HTML only : mail.google.com/mail/h/ (works on most browsers, no rich-text, chat or ajax) Mobile / text-only: mail.google.com/mail/x/ (most versatile, even works on my very old phone's wap 1.1 browser. Has minimal features)
Mobile versions Facebook: m.facebook.com Friendster: m.friendster.com
Lessons to learn, some questions
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Here is where I am stuck with RSS on wiserearth. I would like to subscribe to an area of focus and take that RSS feed and put it into an a RSS reader inside a group on a Ning network, it is one of the options they offer.
I know there are some pages in wiserearth you can use RSS and subscribe to - mostly discussion pages -- and this may be just used blindness on my part, but I cannot figure out how to subscribe to an area of focus, or to a group, or to the home page. I would be interested in knowing when there were changes on the WE home page and I see no way to subscribe. I would like to provide feeds (not just links) to content in other places so people could discover WE and access the content. Am I missing something? I am still learning about RSS. |
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Yes. Good idea. The less clicks/typing, the better.
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HI, Alison, I just picked this up. I got tired of being the only active member of Permiewormies, so have moved on to Facebook.
Are you in Ecuador now? How very cool, that you are mobile enough to travel. I've got a job and a mortgage and little to spare, but at least I get to work from home full-time and enjoy my husband's company. He's an acupuncturist, with a clinic downstairs, so we have the perfect live-work situation for us both. We're busy with books and crafts and music this winter.
Wendy and I are starting to teach Organic Gardening classes here this month, and our Community Compost project is simmering: 40 truckloads of fall leaves, in a pile under the snow. We'll start adding the green stuff to it in the spring. Have the use of a little tractor to turn it with.
I've ordered a bunch more berries and perennial vegetables, etc. to add to my own garden, which oughtta be a bonafide backyard food forest in a couple more years. Wish I had room for chestnuts and pawpaws, but someone else will...
Thanks for the google on my friend: I obviously hadn't done that yet. So she's back in Bellingham... will have to track that girl down...
Hugs,
Beki |
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Its all good stuff
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Hi all
I also support the second version, but seems to me it still lacks a clear invitation to have individual people from the organization to register as WE individual members. Of course WE have to provide a first step of involvment for organizations, but we have to clearly show the interest of having those individual members making the link between the WE community and the organizations. Currently we have still a lot of people who create individual profiles which in fact provide their organizations' details, thus confusing people and orgs. All our communication should make clear that WE need both and distinct organization data and individual community members. So the last point "we also invite you to join the community" should come sooner in the text, and be supported by strong reasons to do so. And make clear that "you" is both individual and collective. I've no concrete proposal out of my hat right now, but will think about it.
Meanwhile, as promised, I've come up with a proposal for a message to WE individual members to make a step forward in their activity. See WiserEarth Suggestions
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Hi my name is Joseph
Amsili and I will be graduating a semester early from high school in
Ithaca, NY. I will be traveling to Barcelona for the spring semester of
09. I will attend La Escuela Mediterráneo, and I would very much like
to plug into some volunteer work involving sustainability. I was just
looking to make a connection and wondering if you might have any
ideas for places I could do some community service surrounding
sustainability when I get over there.
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Hi my name is Joseph
Amsili and I will be graduating a semester early from high school in
Ithaca, NY. I will be traveling to Barcelona for the spring semester of
09. I will attend La Escuela Mediterráneo, and I would very much like
to plug into some volunteer work involving sustainability. I was just
looking to make a connection and wondering if you might have any
ideas for places I could do some community service surrounding
sustainability when I get over there.
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Hi my name is Joseph
Amsili and I will be graduating a semester early from high school in
Ithaca, NY. I will be traveling to Barcelona for the spring semester of
09. I will attend La Escuela Mediterráneo, and I would very much like
to plug into some volunteer work involving sustainability. I was just
looking to make a connection and wondering if you might have any
ideas for places I could do some community service surrounding
sustainability when I get over there.
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Hi my name is Joseph Amsili and I will be graduating a semester early from high school in Ithaca, NY. I will be traveling to Barcelona for the spring semester of 09. I will attend La Escuela Mediterráneo, and I would very much like to plug into some volunteer work involving sustainability. I actually got in contact with Maria Colantoni from the organization where you work who said that I should call her when I got there. But I was just looking to make one more connection and wondering if you might have any ideas for places I could do some community service sorrounding sustainability.
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Vetiver Senegal blog wins award from The Vetiver Network International
In the annual awards, announced by The Vetiver Network International (TVNI), in January 2009, this blog was amonst four winners: |
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Use less, waste none.
The purpose of WholEarth Development Corporation is to purchase land and save habitat and to use the WholEarth System to build homes and communities with people for the environment.
WholEarth System was designed to simplify the complex nature of sustainability and to find ways prosper as a result.
Housing, water, food, energy and occupation are the five elements that are provided by this planet for the direct benefit of all living things.
Soft green design uses biomimicry, service and flow, and extreme resource productivity so that our species can more easily coexist with all other species well into the future.
The WholEarth System of soft green development can be applied to any form of human habitation.
I'm looking for a paying project that will design and build the WholEarth Home / Building and to demonstrate complete sustainability.
If you can help please contact me. 818-266-3834 |
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Use less, waste none.
The purpose of WholEarth Development Corporation is to purchase land and save habitat and to use the WholEarth System to build homes and communities with people for the environment.
WholEarth System was designed to simplify the complex nature of sustainability and to find ways prosper as a result.
Housing, water, food, energy and occupation are the five elements that are provided by this planet for the direct benefit of all living things.
Soft green design uses biomimicry, service and flow, and extreme resource productivity so that our species can more easily coexist with all other species well into the future.
The WholEarth System of soft green development can be applied to any form of human habitation.
I'm looking for a paying project that will design and build the WholEarth Home / Building and to demonstrate complete sustainability.
If you can help please contact me. 818-266-3834 |
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Use less, waste none.
The purpose of WholEarth Development Corporation is to purchase land and save habitat and to use the WholEarth System to build homes and communities with people for the environment.
WholEarth System was designed to simplify the complex nature of sustainability and to find ways prosper as a result.
Housing, water, food, energy and occupation are the five elements that are provided by this planet for the direct benefit of all living things.
Soft green design uses biomimicry, service and flow, and extreme resource productivity so that our species can more easily coexist with all other species well into the future.
The WholEarth System of soft green development can be applied to any form of human habitation. |
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Great suggestion Jon - you have my vote.
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Check out Alemany Farm in SF. Growin food and native plants. We have work days on the weekends and Mondays afternoons. We are having a native plant work day Sun. the 18th 12-5pm. My business partner Brett is there on mondays. we run a green landscaping company called San Francisco Landscapes. thanks
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Migration is a global phenomenon that has its pitfalls as well as its advantages. Its economic importance especially in impacting on the development of the host or destination country is great. In the same vein, migration may negatively impact on the economic system of a country to the detriment of all. One seemingly obvious trend is that movement from the global south to the global north in large proportion is incontestable.
Polly, can we engage ourselves in disscussions on very many "whys"? Can we share the opinions of development practitioners from the Global North on the impact of migration on economy and probably look at the issue of networking amongst CSOs or NGOs and development experts across the globe.
I work for organizations dealing with migration, poverty and development in Nigeria. I encourage to hear from colleagues with whom we can collaborate on the issue of Migration for Development; a new initiative led by UNDP in Brussel.
Thanks. Tola Winjobi |
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I've seen it too - using both MacOSX and XP SP2 on Firefox.
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Another service that I have found useful in the past is LOBAND - see http://www.loband.org .. I tried putting in wiserearth.org and note that while it loads fast it puts the menu first, which might get cumbersome. This might be a usability issue as well for people using screen readers. A "skip menu" at the top would be nice.
Thanks for all you are doing,
Tobias