Sustainable Economics
Submitted by jonahbrotman on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 23:07.
The Good Water Fund
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HehjkdCIM6Q
Goals:
- Increase ground-up infrastructure and promote greater availability of water resources for those in the developing world
- Advance social-consciousness in the developed world of pressing global water issues
Actions Abroad:
Larabanga, Ghana; fix three broken handpumps which will provide fresh drinking water to town of 5,000
Rural Cambodia; support rural communities by providing technical assistance and funds to families.
Submitted by Fairloom on Thu, 04/19/2007 - 13:15.
Fairloom is developing a women’s fair-trade handicraft group in the community of Terra Prometida, Brazil and selling their goods internationally. We are enabling artisans to restructure their own communities to be sustainable, helping them develop and support community education programs, promote reinvestment in their children’s education, while in the process preserving endangered cultural arts. Fairloom also provides children across the globe with access to various world and generational cultures through a program of communication.