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AI - (Artificial) Alien Intelligence Virtual Community Center VCC: Following Yuval Noah Harari, we interpret the acronym AI not as Artificial Intelligence but as Alien Intelligence. AI is alien to us and different from our intelligence. It can explore areas in many d ...
AW4U - Air Water 4U Virtual Community Center VCC: Globally, reaching the Target 6.1 “Universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all” of SDG 6 requires a sixfold increase of the current rate of progress. In Latin Amer ...
AnimalRights - Animal Rights VCC: Our aim is to increase our understanding of the importance of animal rights and to promote a relationship with our environment that is based on respect for the human and non-human animals around us a ...
BPVC - Brownsville Virginia Coast VCC: You have come to our virtual building which allows you to access many services and resources at many different levels, easily tailored to your needs. Besides providing access to comprehensive informa ...
Batteries4Life - Batteries for Life Virtual Community Center VCC: Efficient ways of storing instant solar energy available in form of irradiation, wind, waves, tides, etc., are fundamental ingredients for the transition to what is called “renewable energy.$rdq ...
BirdFlu - Bird Flu VCC: The Bird flu has rapidly developed into a pandemic impacting wildlife on all continents and in the ocean. It has learned to spread between mammals and is now jumping from mammals to humans. In the fin ...
CAOS - Concerns for Arctic Ocean Survival VCC: We aim to facilitate the co-creation of knowledge that can support the presence of humans in the Arctic in ways that do not degrade the health of the Arctic Ocean. Understanding the reciprocity of hu ...
COPE - Confronting the Human and Planetary Existential Emergency VCC:
Humanity is facing the triple challenge of climate change, biodiversity and wildlife loss, and pollution. At the same time, our civilization is on an unsustainable trajectory pointing to a collapse ...
CRT - Critical Race Theory Virtual Community Center VCC: In the Critical Race Theory VCC we analyze how social and political laws and media shape social conceptions of race and ethnicity. We aim at revealing the systemic nature of racism in various laws and ...
CircularEconomy - Circular Economy Transformation VCC: To establish more
Circular economies and to share information, actions, outcomes, examples.
ClimateAdaptationNow - Climate Adaptation Now VCC: Climate has changed significantly. Adaptation to the new climate, and the climate that will emerge over the next few decades, is utmost urgent. The CoP in this VCC is aiming to identify the most urgen ...
CreativeActivism - Effective Tactics for Activists VCC: Many people concerned with the dire planetary emergency are unaware of the range of tactics/strategies available. Many activists fail to understand the critical need to maintain nonviolent discipline ...
Cybersyn - Cybersyn 3.0 VCC: 0 VCC. The mission of this VCC is to (1) facilitate a CoP with members that represent the full breadth of stakeholders needed for successful Cybersyn projects; (2) to establish pilot Cybersyn 3.0 proj ...
Davisville - Davisville Ecovillage VCC: The village that we plan to develop will be largely self-sufficient, limited in size to 200 adults, with its own constitution, and an economy based on extensive use of commons and designed to meet th ...
E4H - Economy for Humanity VCC: The current growth-addicted and exploitive economy is an suicidal economy that works against humanity. Here we are developing the theory of an Economy for Humanity. We work on pathways to such an econ ...
EVC - Earth Viability Center VCC: The Earth Viability Center, Inc. (EVC) maintains Place4Us together with the participants in Place4Us. In the EVC VCC we focus on developing EVC as a consortium of many partners engaged in making the w ...
EverythingSolar - Everything Solar VCC: Everything solar is about much more than just using solar energy to power technical equipment. It's about energy flows in processes from the start to the end. Many processes once were fully based on s ...
Extinction - Extinction VCC: The current mass extinction caused by our culture is a major threat to the health of the Earth's life-support system. Here we want to better understand the causes and drivers of this global catastroph ...
ExtremeFloods - Extreme Urban and River Floods VCC: In the changed and still changing climate, extreme precipitation events are rapidly intensifying. The resulting urban floods impact a built environment designed for the past, and rural floods threaten ...
Food4All - Food For All VCC: A slowly vanishing food security is a major challenge to humanity, and it impacts those at the bottom of our societies most. Our mass food production has severe impacts on the health of the Earth's li ...
FutureGrenada - Preparing Grenada for an Uncertain Future VCC: The spectrum of possible futures for Grenada is dominated by the triple challenge of a changed and changing climate, the loss of wildlife and biodiversity, and pollution from local to global scales. A ...
GAIA - GAIA VCC: We are activists and the consciousness of our living planet GAIA. We are working for the health and wellbeing of our precious planet, all humans, and all living beings.
GreyWater - Grey Water VCC: We are developing usable knowledge for using grey water as a resource to cover our water needs while at the same time reducing the pollution of the ecosystems around us. Join us if you are want to he ...
H2O4Us - Clean Water for All VCC: Facilitate progress towards SDG 6 by providing usable knowledge on clean water generation in regions where access to clean water is limited due to pollution, scarcity, or for other reasons.
HamptonRoads - Hampton Roads Environment and People VCC: The main mission of our community is to utilize virtual tools to better engage with all societal stakeholders in Hampton Roads and to have a broad dialog about the future we want for Hampton Roads.
ILearn - Informal Learning VCC: To understand how integrating people into open and inclusive science-focused virtual communities can facilitate ISL and lead to a more informed public capable of evidence-based decision making, and t ...
IM - Involuntary Migration VCC: The Involuntary Migration VCC is a place for involuntary migrants to connect and share their experiences, fears, worries, and solutions. A place where voluntary migrants can give advice to those who m ...
Inequality - Fighting Inequality VCC: In many countries inequality is high and still growing. Inequality not just in access to economic resources but also in rights, access to education, access to information and knowledge, access to publ ...
InvasiveSpecies - Tackling Invasive Species VCC: Invasive species can have severe impacts in the ecosystems they enter. When highly invasive species are getting into relatively unaltered ecosystems, they simplify that ecosystem. This is what Homo sa ...
June19th - JuneteenthVA VCC: JuneteenthVA's mission is to help America heal from the wounds of slavery without shame or blame. The goal is to truthfully acknowledge the American history that shaped and continues to influence the ...
LGBTQ+ - LGBTQ+ VCC: We aim to facilitate progress towards a society that fully accepts, respects, and integrates LGBTQ+ individuals and communities, with a particular focus on honoring those who have put themselves out a ...
LawofLife - Law of Life VCC: In our society, Mother Culture tells us a story that makes us believe that we are exempt for the law of life that governs all ecosystems. We cultivate our anthropocentrism in every aspect of our lives ...
LearningSustainability - Learning Sustainability VCC: Learning sustainability is a life-long process. This challenges education institutions that are teaching sustainability to develop non-traditional programs that enable students to learn sustainability ...
LowEnergy - Pathways to Low-Energy Society VCC: The mission of the Low Energy VCC is the development of pathways to a low-energy society with high socio-ecological benefits ensuring the welfare of the people and safeguarding the Earth's life-suppo ...
MARI - Mitigation and Adaptation Research Institute VCC: Our modern civilization has created a triple challenge that is threatening the future of humanity and the health of the Earth's life-support system, on which the welfare of all human and non-human lif ...
MPP - Mitigate Plastic Pollution VCC: Plastic pollution is ubiquitous. And it is increasing rapidly. Only if we can change the way we depend in almost everything we do on plastics can we reduce the increase of this pollution. We aim to fu ...
Manatee - Manatee VCC: In the Manatee VCC we are working together to better understand manatees and the threats they are exposed to. We want to ensure that conflicts between human activities and these large herbivores are m ...
MarineDebris - Mitigation and Prevention of Marine Debris VCC: The Marine Debris community aims to contribute to tackling the challenge that marine debris poses to the marine biosphere and, in many ways, to humans. To achieve this mission, the community assesses ...
MeTooSurvivors - MeToo survivors of sexual assault or domestic violence VCC: To assist survivors in healing and to change cultural and institutional conditions to prevent sexual assaults
Metaphorum - Metaphorum VCC: To develop, disseminate and apply Stafford Beer's legacy in organisational cybernetics to create a better world, which is collaborative, equitable, regenerative, participative and democratic, espec ...
NewGov - Deliberative Democracy VCC: We intend to a) design new approaches to governance that will be able to match the complexity of the modern world and serve the interests of we the people as a whole, b) experiment with those new app ...
NewStory - New Story for Humanity VCC: Humanity needs a new story. Humans live by the stories they believe in. The stories modern societies enact are stories of hoarding so-called wealth, exploiting others, dominance of nature, and depleti ...
ODUSCL - Sustainability and Conservation Leadership Club of Old Dominion University VCC: The Sustainability and Conservation Leadership (SCL) Program of Old Dominion University was developed in collaboration with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. It has been educating students since 201 ...
OldWays - The Old Ways VCC: There are many old ways to do things without many resources, no plastics, and little, if any, use of fossil fuels. The knowledge of these old ways is slowly disappearing because it is not passed on to ...
Overpopulation - Overpopulation VCC: Overpopulation is threatening the future of humanity. Overpopulation of any species eventually leads to a often catastrophic population collapse. The explosion of the human population from less than 6 ...
PathsofIshmael - Paths of Ishmael New and Ancient Ways of Living VCC: To learn about, understand, and be able to invent/ design new and ancient ways of living that are deeply satisfying and viable. This entails understanding the essential features of the the tribal lif ...
Place4Us - Place4Us VCC: The Place4Us VCC is devoted to the governance of the platform and the further development in service to the community of participants. Governance of the platform takes place here. Here we also develop ...
PlasticsHealth - Plastics and Health VCC: No matter where you are on our planet or what you do, you are now exposed to micro and nanoplastics. There are many pathways of these particles into our bodies, organs, and even our brain and heart. T ...
RM2F - Roadmap to Future VCC: The mission of the Roadmap to Future CoP is to assess priorities in regional and global efforts to a future that exhibits sustainable development and to provide a roadmap that can guide investors who ...
RP - Responsible Procreation VCC: We deliberate the need for responsible procreation and a new morality of procreation. We communicate the necessity of the transformation of the most invasive species that Homo sapiens has become into ...
Refugees - Refugees VCC: To be a place for refugees to share their experiences, fears, hopes, and solutions. To support those who are refugees with information and knowledge helpful in their quest for safety. To help find a ...
SEArch - Sustainable Ecological Architecture VCC: Our built environment is sprawling across Earth's surface often in stark contrast and in conflict with the environment around it. We aim to develop concepts and designs for a built environment that ha ...
SLR - Sea Level Rise VCC: Future sea level rise poses a high risk to the rapidly increasing population in many coastal location. Unlike heat waves, droughts, storms and river floods, which have severe impacts on local to regio ...
Sargassum - Addressing Sargassum Challenge and Opportunity VCC: We aim to develop a concept for a value chain from sargassum in the ocean to end users of products created out of sargassum and to facilitate pilot projects in different locations as a proof of conce ...
Sewerology - Wastewater Science & Education VCC: The mission of the Wastewater Science and Education VCC aligns with the mission of Place4Us. More specifically, it is to facilitate education, discussion, and learning about wastewater and sewage tre ...
TCC - Triumph Community Church VCC: We are a small non-denominational, inner city church. Our main focus is on healing prayer (physical illnesses, emotional/trauma illnesses, spiritual illnesses such as hate, greed, etc. and demonic op ...
TROL - Toward Responsible Outdoor Lighting Virtual Community Center VCC: We aim to make progress Toward Responsible Outdoor Lighting. We want outdoor lighting that reduces our impacts on the environment and the people, while still providing sufficient light to meet the nee ...
ThirdActTWVCC - Third Act Tidewater VCC: We empower elders to protect the climate and strengthen our democracy. We are part of a mass movement that intends to protect the Earth's life support system and move toward justice, equality, divers ...
TinyHouses - Tiny Houses VCC: We aim to promote tiny houses as a contribution to tackling the planetary and human existential emergency and as a means to more equity and equality.
TippingPoints - Tipping Points VCC: In the Tipping Points VCC, we are a Community of Practice aiming to improve the understanding of tipping points in the Earth system and humanity, find ways to avoid crossing negative tipping points an ...
Tiwah - Tiwah Virtual Community Center VCC: The Tiwah VCC is facilitating and supporting a Community of Practice addressing the growing gap between humanity and the Earth's life support system. This gap poses an existential threat to humanity's ...
Wildfire - Wildfire VCC: The mission of the Wildfire CoP is to provide comprehensive tools for the assessment of wildfire and anthropofire and to work diligently to inform the public about the risks to humans and the environ ...
Woke - Woke VCC: You know, Woke is about enlightenment. Being aware of social and racial injustices was a start. We want to extend this: You are woke, you understand how society works and what forces can help us to ma ...
WoodHouses - Wood Houses VCC: Collect and further develop usable knowledge in building with wood under a wide range of climate conditions, develop promotional material communicating this knowledge and making this knowledge availa ...