Comments for Cultura21 http://www.cultura21.net International Platform Fri, 20 May 2011 14:41:54 +0000 hourly 1 Comment on “GROW_ABILITY” Exhibition in Riga, Latvia by lisa marini finerty http://www.cultura21.net/topics/sustainability/%e2%80%9cgrow_ability%e2%80%9d-exhibition-in-riga-latvia-2#comment-280 lisa marini finerty Tue, 17 May 2011 20:47:17 +0000 http://www.cultura21.net/?p=2768#comment-280 Hi Ronja, I realize you are international (so are we, with founders in Italy and staff in NL plus the US), but I thought you might have some reason to publicize what is currently a North American initiative for Citizen Science. If so, I am including some explanation. Hopefully, we can work together in the coming monthes. Lisa We are YourGardenShow.com, a free social network connecting gardeners of all experience levels with knowledge, tools and resources to inspire sustainable green communities. More gardeners mean healthier communities. We are organized around a garden log which each gardener can chose to share. Plus, we have about 40% original content, including videos since our founder is a veteran TV producer/director. We have an initiative which we started this month to build a network of Citizen Scientists to undertake the first online national bee count (they're disappearing, causing concern for food security as well as being harbingers of environmental danger). We would like to publicize the initiative since that is what it will take to get the data collected so it can do good! Would you be interested in doing a story on it? We have copy, blogs and press releases. Here's one page from our site: http://www.yourgardenshow.com/citizen-science/great-sunflower-project Here is a piece that suite 101 ran this week on us: http://www.suite101.com/content/citizen-scientists-tabulate-the-numbers-of-vanishing-bees-a370129 SF Chronicle should have their story coming out this weekend. Net-net, we hope that this project will create a "buzz' because it really argues for increasing the biodiversity - and especially in the last bastion of biodiversity - the cities. We take the following article to heart: Let me know if you are still publishing and would be interested in covering this. We built a cool little bee=meter widget which, if someone participates in a zip code, shows the exact number of bees seen in a 15 minute period, which we would love to see work in all zip codes in the country! Best, and please feel free to pass this request on. Hi Ronja, I realize you are international (so are we, with founders in Italy and staff in NL plus the US), but I thought you might have some reason to publicize what is currently a North American initiative for Citizen Science. If so, I am including some explanation. Hopefully, we can work together in the coming monthes.

Lisa

We are YourGardenShow.com, a free social network connecting gardeners of all experience levels with knowledge, tools and resources to inspire sustainable green communities. More gardeners mean healthier communities. We are organized around a garden log which each gardener can chose to share. Plus, we have about 40% original content, including videos since our founder is a veteran TV producer/director.

We have an initiative which we started this month to build a network of Citizen Scientists to undertake the first online national bee count (they’re disappearing, causing concern for food security as well as being harbingers of environmental danger). We would like to publicize the initiative since that is what it will take to get the data collected so it can do good!

Would you be interested in doing a story on it? We have copy, blogs and press releases. Here’s one page from our site: http://www.yourgardenshow.com/citizen-science/great-sunflower-project

Here is a piece that suite 101 ran this week on us: http://www.suite101.com/content/citizen-scientists-tabulate-the-numbers-of-vanishing-bees-a370129
SF Chronicle should have their story coming out this weekend. Net-net, we hope that this project will create a “buzz’ because it really argues for increasing the biodiversity – and especially in the last bastion of biodiversity – the cities. We take the following article to heart:

Let me know if you are still publishing and would be interested in covering this. We built a cool little bee=meter widget which, if someone participates in a zip code, shows the exact number of bees seen in a 15 minute period, which we would love to see work in all zip codes in the country!

Best, and please feel free to pass this request on.

]]> Comment on Chain of arguments for the ecological identity of the international language Esperanto (& its organizations) by Manfred Westermayer http://www.cultura21.net/topics/sustainability/chain-of-arguments-for-the-ecological-identity-of-the-international-language-esperanto-its-organizations#comment-103 Manfred Westermayer Fri, 15 Apr 2011 19:56:06 +0000 http://www.cultura21.net/?p=1905#comment-103 jes, Wolfgang pravas. Esperanto tre bone servas por la interkultura komunikado kaj interkonatigho. Se oni uzus Esperanto kiel ponto-lingvon estus pli da kontaktoj. jes, Wolfgang pravas. Esperanto tre bone servas por la interkultura komunikado kaj interkonatigho. Se oni uzus Esperanto kiel ponto-lingvon estus pli da kontaktoj.

]]> Comment on Design Walks – 2nd Sustainable Summer School by Societies, Systems and Swarms : The Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts http://www.cultura21.net/activites/workshops/design-walks-2nd-sustainable-summer-school#comment-102 Societies, Systems and Swarms : The Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts Fri, 15 Apr 2011 15:19:14 +0000 http://www.cultura21.net/?p=174#comment-102 [...] “2nd Sustainable Summer School”  that took place in Jüchen (Germany) in September 2010 (cf. our earlier post about the event). The theme of that summer school was “Societies, Systems and [...] [...] “2nd Sustainable Summer School”  that took place in Jüchen (Germany) in September 2010 (cf. our earlier post about the event). The theme of that summer school was “Societies, Systems and [...]

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