A Environment Friendly Home: Empowerhouse = Passive House = Energy Efficient, Environmentally Sustainable, Affordable Housing

In December 2012, students, faculty, leadership and alumni from Parsons The New School for Design (http://www.newschool.edu/parsons), the Milano School of International Affairs, Management and Urban Policy (http://www.newschool.edu/milano) at The New School for Public Engagement (http://www.newschool.edu/public-engag...), local government agencies, and the community came to celebrate the dedication of Empowerhouse (http://parsit.parsons.edu).

This highly energy efficient, environmentally sustainable, affordable housing for DC Habitat was developed over several years by over 200 students at Parsons, Milano, and Stevens. The house was designed as an entry in the U.S. Department of Energy's Solar Decathlon, a sustainable building competition. The first house in Washington, D.C. to meet Passive House standards for energy use, Empowerhouse took first place in the competition's Affordability category, and now is a new model for Habitat for Humanity moving forward.

Read more about the event in our New School News blog - http://blogs.newschool.edu/news/2012/....

How Non Profit Organizations And Charities Are Making The World A Better Place? Self Sufficiency For Village Women - Thieneba, Senegal

Center for Renewable Energy and Appropriate Technology for the Environment (CREATE!) was established in 2008 with the mission of helping rural populations in the developing world cope with water, food and fuel shortages resulting from the impact of climate change on their communities.

Using a participatory approach and appropriate technologies, CREATE! works with communities in rural Senegal to identify and meet their needs in three primary sectors:

Water
CREATE! works with local communities to expand and rehabilitate village wells and water networks; build low cost cisterns for in-ground water collection and storage; establish vegetable gardens and tree nurseries that make efficient use of available water; and utilize renewable solar energy to pump water from wells that are as much as 150 feet deep.

Food
Like many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, Senegal is losing productive cropland at an alarming rate. CREATE! works with rural communities to reverse this trend, clearing unused land and restoring it to productivity. Working in cooperative groups, our beneficiaries receive comprehensive training in year-round sustainable crop cultivation and use their own labor and simple tools to clear, fence, plant, water, tend and harvest cooperative community vegetable gardens that yield a bountiful harvest and provide a much needed source of income, all without the use of fossil fuels.

Energy and Environment
Conserving energy and protecting the environment are major challenges throughout sub-Saharan Africa. This is especially true in rural areas, where most cooking is done over open fires and electricity is usually generated using non-renewable, unsustainable and costly diesel fuel. CREATE! is addressing these problems in Senegal by teaching community members to construct and use fuel-efficient cookstoves made from free, local materials; establishing tree nurseries in cooperative community gardens that provide thousands of seedlings for food production, living fences and local reforestation; and installing solar pumping systems to pump water from hand-dug wells.

To learn more about current projects and progress, visit our website at www.createaction.org.

British People Are Awakening - Silence Is Treason - We Are An Independent, Not-For-Profit, Campaign, Research And Advocacy Organization.

Nick Lowles, Kicked out of Harold Wood, Havering, East London

Published on Mar 3, 2013 by EDLTheSpan
Original video available here: http://youtu.be/168Veee6tWU

Muslim Paedophile supporter and traitor to this nation kicked out of East London by true Patriots. A massive WELDONE. You, the scum of the left - Hope Not Hate and the UAF - the fight is on....we will not stand anymore of your bullshit. We will confront you and we will treat you as traitors.

No Surrender

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NATIONALIST MEDIA NETWORK

Set up in 2012. We are an independent, not-for-profit, campaign, research and advocacy organization.

We work with different organizations from British and non-British backgrounds, to campaign for justice for British peoples.

Our research work includes writing articles, monitoring the media, catalogue crimes and producing papers on Anti-British hate crime.

The aims of the Nationalist Media Network are:

1. To champion the rights & duties of British peoples as human beings.

2. To promote a new social order, based on truth, justice, righteousness, & generosity, rather than selfish interest.

3. To demand virtue & oppose wrongdoing in the exercise of power (from - e.g. political, judicial, media, economic, etc.).

4. To gather information about, & to publicise, atrocities, oppression, discrimination, & other abuses of British peoples rights.

5. To campaign for redress, & to support the victims, of such crimes.

6. To campaign to bring the perpetrators & their accomplices to justice.

7. To cooperate with other Nationalist groups & individuals where such cooperation is likely to further the achievement of these aims.

Website: http://www.nationalistmedianetwork.com
Email: NationalistMediaNetwork@gmail.com

The Entire World Is Changing :) Adopt The Arts Is A Non-Profit Charitable Foundation Dedicated To Saving The Arts In Public Schools

Adopt the Arts is a non-profit charitable foundation dedicated to saving the Arts in public schools. Please make a donation @ www.adoptthearts.org

Mission
It is the mission of Adopt the Arts Foundation to bring together well-known artists, celebrities, public figures, policy makers and the general public to save the arts in America's public schools. We believe that it is morally and ethically incumbent upon us to foster the creativity, dreams, hopes, and imaginations of our children. Adopt the Arts Foundation is dedicated to improving the academic performance of every child through the gift of making art and music.

Description
Adopt the Arts is raising money to keep arts education in public schools in Los Angeles, and as we grow, we hope to move to other cities. LAUSD threatens to cut funding for arts education every year. For this current school year, the budget was cut 30% from the 2010-2011 school year. For the upcoming school year the budget has been eliminated and there will be no art and music classes in LAUSD elementary schools. Parent groups and booster clubs are now required to tirelessly fundraise to pay for the arts education teachers provided by the district, or to hire their own teachers who are independent contractors. This is not possible for the vast majority of schools in the district.

How Non Profit Organizaions Are Replacing Private Corporations And Make Your Local Communty Stronger, Happier: Saving Time + Money

*My part starts at 8:43

I was proud to be part of this Energy Saving Tips Video Project for the Non-Profit company that I am currently part of, Learn away ^_^

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Non-Profit super hero by day, Music Producer/DJ ninja by night...
Born and raised in Los Angeles,California, Disneyland was his home away from home, moved to Oregon at the age of 17, and has remained there ever since. Started working for local radio stations at the age of 19, and DJ'ing for a hobby. A few years down the road, he started producing his own electro house music, expressing his feelings thru SoUnD WaVeS.

http://about.me/michaelmartinez

Currently he also works full time for a large local non-profit organization, which offers to serve and speak out for economically disadvantaged people, with the mission to break the cycle of poverty, removing barriers that prevent individuals from achieving economic self-sufficiency, needless to say its a very rewarding job.