02.21.06
Tools for policy influence in natural resource management
Power tools offers an excellent collection of policy tools for people and organisations working with natural resources management. The tools are especially directed to marginalised groups or those working with them. The tools they offer are transferable, not static, meaning that they are a set of ideas that can be taken from one place or a context to another. These tools try to avoid the usual problem with participatory methods; guiding too much and making the methods and tools unflexible. So when you use the tools be creative and don’t take them as the only way to do things.
The tools are divided into (1) tools for understanding, (2) tools for organising, (3) tools for engaging and (4) tools for ensuring. They include such power tools as: Community tradeoffs assessment, Mechanisms for organisation, Connecting communities to markets and People’s law.
All tool documents are available for free download in pdf -format in four languages (English, French, Spanish and Portuguese).
Power tools: for policy influence in natural resource management
02.15.06
Help to predict climate change
BBC and several universities have joined forces to predict climate change, and they need your help. Dowload a small program on your computer and you will give your small share to this effort.
By combining the processing power of thousands of home computers it’ll hopefully be possible to make more accurate climate change predictions (to make people act). You don’t have to do anything else than download and open the program. Whenever you have your computer on the program will calculate the chosen climate prediction in the background.
Every contributor has his individual variable changes for the prediction, which is calculated from the year 1920. If your model ends up with a climate unsimilar to current year 2006, your experiment will stop. However, if the model is close enough it will continue to calculate untill it reaches 2080. This will give researchers multiple models to compare climate changes happening in the coming years.
TAKE PART IN THE BIGGEST CLIMATE CHANGE EXPERINENT EVER UNDERTAKEN: climateprediction.net
