Solution Box™:

While there are many immense, systemic problems in our world today, there are also a wide variety of solutions that can and should be applied to these problems. The challenge is often one of matching the problems to the appropriate solutions. This gets to the heart of the iterations mission, and will be further articulated here in the future. At the moment, this page is simply a repository for links to projects and organizations that seem to be offering important alternatives and solutions to business as usual.

Please alert us to links that you think belong on this page.

Global Ideas Bank - A Global Ideas Bank for socially innovative non-technological ideas and projects, with £1,000 UK sterling awards annually for the best ideas or projects submitted.

A great solution resource, complete with categorized sections that include: Social Innovations, Housing, Economics and Business, Transport, and Promoting Social Inventions, to name just a few.

http://www.globalideasbank.org/

AirHead - Linking the environment with your everyday life.

A nice resource for learning about a variety of air pollution, energy use, and other environmental topics. Includes an emission calculator for determining your environmental impact, and a product search that lets you research the energy efficiency of your next appliance.

http://www.airhead.org/

Ashoka

Ashoka's mission is to develop the profession of social entrepreneurship around the world. Ashoka searches the world for the best new ideas, championed by the most capable, innovative social entrepreneurs.

http://www.ashoka.org/home/index.cfm

SeaChange

The entrepreneurial nonprofit marketplace for social change. The mission of SeaChange is to catalyze sustainable social change through social entrepreneurship. SeaChange forges alliances among social entrepreneurs, social investors and business leaders by creating the entrepreneurial nonprofit marketplace that provides access to expertise, collaboration and capital.

http://www.sea-change.org/index.html

Community Design Opportunities

"Community Design Opportunities" has been created in an effort to link students, architects, and designers, or for that matter, anyone who is interested in the development and design of their community, with local community-based efforts.

This site was posted by Design Corps, a non-profit group whose mission is to find ways to offer quality, affordable design service to the many who don't currently have it available. Design Corps believes that good design does not mean high cost, just careful consideration of the individual's needs.

http://www.designcorps.org/designcorps.html

HelloBrain.com, The Worlds Intellectual Capital Exchange

"The digital marketplace for sourcing technology solutions."

This is a really powerful tool from the Enterprise of One™ vantage point. While right now HelloBrain seems primarily focused on computer science projects, this is a great concept.

http://www.hellobrain.com/

The Lazy Eight Foundation

"The Lazy Eight Foundation is a non-profit, charitable organization dedicated to promoting research and development in the sciences and education. It supports efforts to bring together scientists, artists, and educators across disciplines, with a focus on projects that offer creative solutions to educational, social and environmental problems. The Lazy Eight Foundation works with its "Lazers," individuals from a broad range of disciplines who advise the Foundation on various projects."

http://www.lazy8.org

The Lunar Resources Company

"The Lunar Resources Company is organized to advance and engage in space flight as a commercial enterprise, to establish and operate a permanent manned lunar base, and to transact any and all lawful business--on Earth, in outer space, and on other celestial bodies--for which corporations may be incorporated under the Texas Business Corporation Act."

http://www.tlrc.com/

The Millennium Seed Bank Project

"One of the largest international conservation projects ever undertaken, this international collaboration aims to safeguard over 24,000 plant species world-wide against extinction and to secure the future of the UK's native flowering plants. At Wakehurst Place in Sussex a building has been constructed to house the new seed vaults and provide a world resource for seed conservation, research and education."

While not a solution to the problems that are that wiping out plant and animal diversity all over the globe, projects like this are an important insurance policy that should be invested in.

http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/seedbank/msb.html

The Wetland Centre

"A Truly Historic Site Twenty-five minutes from Westminster in the heart of London, the Wetland Centre is unique in being the first created wetland habitat (105 acres) to have been developed in any capital city throughout the world."

"An ideal model for how the world and humanity might exist alongside one another in the centuries to come." Sir David Attenborough

http://www.wetlandcentre.org.uk/