ifPeople Newsletter: Vol. 1, No. 3 (June 2004)

ifPeople Newsletter (aqui en Español)
June 2004 (Vol. 1, No. 3)

Happy Solstice! Whether you are celebrating the longest or shortest day this week on this day of planetary significance, we wish you our best. Here at ifPeople HQ, it is hot, and so is the news! Read on for exciting news on systems thinking, a design competition, sustainable livlihoods, resposible technology, and Latin America. As always, we welcome your comments or circulation of our newsletter (singup at www.ifpeople.net.

Best wishes,
Chris Johnson and Tirza Hollenhorst
ifPeople Co-founders

Systems Thinking & Sustainability
Educators and others interested in sustainability have a new resource -- the Donella Meadows Archive. The Archive is an on-line library containing nearly 800 sort essays written by the late Donella H. Meadows.  Read more here

Responsible Technology: Report card on computer manufacturing
The Fifth Annual Computer Report Card for 2004 was released in May. The report is issued annually by the Computer TakeBack Campaign (CTBC) to document whether manufacturers are including environmental design concepts into their products and taking responsibility for the entire life cycle of those products, and to encourage consumers to leverage their buying power to foster greater corporate responsibility for protecting public health, worker safety and the environment. How did your manufacturer score? Hint: not well, but there are differences between the companies. Read more here

ifPeople to give a workshop at youth EmPOWERment Festival in Atlanta
Over 70 organizations, businesses, camps, churches, elders, youth, city and state agencies are cooperating as a community on June 27th and June 28th. ifPeople will be leading a workshop for the participants to develop understanding of human relations to the environment and how that affects our lives. Come see us on Sunday, June 27 at Brownwood Park in Atlanta. For more information.

International Design and Construction competition: C2C Home
The First International Cradle to Cradle Housing Design and Construction Competition for excellence in building the highest quality affordable and market rate housing designs for a local community. The designs are to be developed around the principles and framework described in Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by William McDonough FAIA and Michael Braungart. The first in the anticipated series of nationwide and international implementation markets will be Roanoke, Virginia, USA. For more information

ifPeople launches new site functionaility and content for Red Puentes
In its continued work with the international network Red Puentes to promote Corporate Social Responsibility in Latin America, ifPeople has released a new set of features and content for the network's Web site RedPuentes.org. These include an English implementation of the site, a secure member area, a CSR document library, and in interactive area on CSR Tools. For more information.

Free Software and Latin America
June 2-4, the 5th International Free Software Forum in Brazil, where nearly 5,000 people gathered, including an international selection of academics and technologists, top government officials, and a diverse group of technology developers. What they were so excited about has got Microsoft nervous. For more information and our growing story the conference and its repercussions in Brazil.

Briefs
* Non-profit Business Plan Competition
http://www.onphilanthropy.com/tren_comm/tc2004-05-27a.html
* Social enterprises featured winners in prestigious MIT 50K competition
http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/stories/2004/05/24/newscolumn3.html