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Life Hacker

http://www.lifehacker.com

Tips, tricks, and downloads for getting things done.

Tags: Lifehacker, Work, Gawker Media

Ted

http://www.ted.com

TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. 
On TED.com, we make the best talks and performances from TED and partners available to the world, for free. More than 900 TEDTalks are now available, with more added each week

Tags: Conference, Conferences, Ted, Tedx, Lectures, Speakers, Convention, Knowledge, Great Minds, Talks, Science, Ideas, Ideas Worth Spreading

University of the People (UoPeople)

http://www.uopeople.org

University of the People (UoPeople) is the world’s tuition-free, non-profit, online academic institution dedicated to opening access to higher education globally. Based on the principles of e-learning and peer-to-peer learning, coupled with open-source technology and open educational resources, UoPeople is designed to provide access to college studies for qualified high school graduates, despite financial, geographic or societal constraints. 

Tags: University, Tuition Free, University Of The People, UofPeople, College, Academic

Weather Underground

http://www.wunderground.com

Weather Underground is committed to delivering the most reliable, accurate weather information possible. Our state-of-the-art technology monitors conditions and forecasts for locations across the world, so you'll always find the weather information that you need.

Tags: Weather Underground, Emergency Response

Causes

http://www.causes.com

Causes is the world’s largest platform for activism and philanthropy. We empower individuals to create grassroots communities called “causes” that take action on behalf of a specific issue or nonprofit organization.

Tags: Causes, Activism, Action, Giving Communities, Community, Giving Community, Joe Green, Facebook Causes, Facebook

ecomagination

http://www.ecomagination.com

ecomagination is GE’s commitment to imagine and build innovative solutions to today’s environmental challenges while driving economic growth.

Tags: Ecomagination, Environment, GE, Green Tech

Wiser

http://www.wiserearth.org

Wiser is a global village for sharing and kinship-building among changemakers around the world. More specifically, WiserEarth helps the global movement of people and organizations working toward social justice, indigenous rights, and environmental stewardship to connect, collaborate, share knowledge, and build alliances.

Tags: Wiser Earth, Sustainability, Environment

Natural News

http://www.naturalnews.com

The NaturalNews Network is a non-profit collection of public education websites covering topics that empower individuals to make positive changes in their health, environmental sensitivity, consumer choices and informed skepticism.

Tags: Natural News, Environment, Media

Amnesty International

http://www.amnesty.org

Our vision is for every person to enjoy all the rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights standards.

Tags: Amnesty International, Human Rights

FORA.tv

http://fora.tv

At FORA.tv, we believe that there are brilliant ideas expressed everyday, everywhere, and we don't want you to miss them. We've gathered the web's largest collection of unmediated video drawn from top conferences, universities, and public forums. We present this provocative, big-idea content for you to watch, interact with, and share --when, where, and how you want.

Tags: Fora.tv, Education, Ideas, Video

Change.org

http://www.change.org

Our mission is to build an international network of people empowered to fight for what's right locally, nationally, and globally. Change.org empowers you to create real change in your community, city or country. Every day, across the world, people like you start campaigns on Change.org to fight for issues they care about — and the Change.org team works to mobilize people to help them win.

Tags: Change.org, Campaign, Petition, Change

ChangeMakers

http://www.changemakers.com

Ashoka Changemakers® provides the tools and resources to empower everyone to contribute to a better world. Our community's mission is to grow new ideas through transparency and collaboration, a process of Open Growth. No matter where you are starting, or where you are going, Changemakers makes it easier to share an idea, track progress, communicate with supporters, and invest in global change.

Tags: Ashoka, Changemakers, Open Growth

See Click Fix

http://www.seeclickfix.com

SeeClickFix allows anyone to report and track non-emergency issues anywhere in the world via the internet. This empowers citizens, community groups, media organizations and governments to take care of and improve their neighborhoods.

Tags: SeeClickFix, Report, Track

Greenpeace

http://www.greenpeace.org

Greenpeace exists because this fragile earth deserves a voice. It needs solutions. It needs change. It needs action. Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning organization that acts to change attitudes and behavior, to protect and conserve the environment and to promote peace.

Tags: Greenpeace International, Greenpeace, Environment, Campaign, Conserve

Meetup

http://www.meetup.com

Meetup is the world's largest network of local groups. Meetup makes it easy for anyone to organize a local group or find one of the thousands already meeting up face-to-face. More than 2,000 groups get together in local communities each day, each one with the goal of improving themselves or their communities.

Tags: Meetup, Local Community, Lectures, Action