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Tipping Point Action Proposal in Contest at MIT Climate CoLab Crowdsourcing Platform

The Community Peacebuilding and Cultural Sustainability (CPCS) Initiative (www.cpcsc.info) now has a proposal ("Tipping Point Action: Citizen Participation in Times of Unprecedented Challenges") in a contest at the MIT Climate CoLab Platform. The Tipping Point Action Proposal is entered in the "Shifting Behavior for a Changing Climate" contest.

There are opportunities to comment on the Tipping Point Action proposal--and to give it a "thumbs up"…

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Added by Stefan Pasti on May 28, 2014 at 11:51am — No Comments

An Effort to Bury a Throwaway Culture One Repair at a Time

"At Amsterdam’s first Repair Cafe, an event originally held in a theater’s foyer, then in a rented room in a former hotel and now in a community center a couple of times a month, people can bring in whatever they want to have repaired, at no cost, by volunteers who just like to fix things."

Awesome!

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Added by Justice Schanfarber on May 31, 2012 at 10:05am — No Comments

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