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I just received news that AMEE has landed funding. We have mentioned AMEE already a ton of times on GreenMonk, but that is because they share our open-source philosophy and they are Green. In fact, AMEE CEO Gavin Starks is the one who came up with the MegaTom concept!
From the press release:
AMEE, the [...]

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I came across the Clear Climat Code project via a message from Sig.
Like all good ideas, this one is very simple –
The Clear Climate Code project writes and maintains software for climate modelling and analysis, with an emphasis on clarity and correctness.
The results of some climate-related software are used as the basis [...]

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I’m busy helping to build Akvo at the moment, an open source wiki and set of collaboration and finance tools that pool the knowledge that already exists in different NGO and government silos, to help the world’s poorest communities quickly build water and sanitation facilities. It’s worth doing – today over 1.1 billion people are [...]

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Anyone trying to make sense of the opportunity to apply the principles of open source to opportunities wider than just software needs to listen to the recent series of Reith Lectures, broadcast by BBC Radio 4.
The Beeb’s curious podcast policy means that the archives are only accessible via its radio player, but right now you [...]

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via worldchanging comes news of openecosource.org
“Our mission is to create a web base tool, which will help speed up the distribution of available knowledge and connect efforts that aim to create a sustainable environment.”
How cool is that – someone else focusing on Green From The Roots Up. Greenmonk is also about applying open source methods [...]

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