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By the end of this week my employment status will have officially reverted back to that of a full-time student (not that having a summer internship really counts as being employed in the first place), or more directly, my time as an intern for WiserEarth will have ended. It’s been a busy two and a half months, and my experience warrants the use of many adjectives. I’ll elaborate below, but first I’ll give a quick synopsis of what exactly I’ve been doing. › Continue reading…

People are doing great work in their local communities, but stories about their work frequently stay local or go untold. LikeMinded is launching today, collecting stories of local innovations, success, and sometimes even failures and is helping information get where it needs to go. Such a needed tool! › Continue reading…

As our community continues to grow -– WE are 48,958 working to co-create a more peaceful, just and sustainable world — we would like to bring you up to speed on some of the milestones we reached in 2010 and also give you a hint of where we’re going in 2011! › Continue reading…

To mark the UN International Year of Biodiversity, we are spotlighting one of our related communities, the Biocultural Diversity Portal, on WiserEarth. An expert on this topic, Luisa Maffi, Director of Terralingua, took some time out to talk with us. We would like to share with you what biocultural diversity is, how it has evolved over the years, and why it is so crucial to maintain. › Continue reading…