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GLI on Twitter
You can now follow GLI on Twitter
Philippines tour 2009
Sept 13th-Oct 2nd
Read about it in the blog Project page
New blog
GLI has launched a new blog. The new blog is open to comments from anyone.
You'll find it here
The blog also contains a chatroom
Solar cells on their way to become reasonably priced
Read an article here
Read our forum discussion here
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Green Life Innovators (GLI for short) is a
global online community for the design of environmentally sustainable technology through the principles of community driven collective action, using the way communities like the open source movement, Wikipedia etc. work as our role model. GLI is built on the philosophy that the knowledge of clean, green and sustainable technology should be freely available to the whole of humanity.
The organization is rooted in Norway and is registered at the Norwegian Central Coordination Register for Legal Entities, under the organization number 993 163 872 as a non profit, non governmental organization.
It is also the goal of GLI to raise funds to actually build some of the things designed and share the practical knowledge acquired from the building process with humanity for free. We also intend to test out the building of some of the designs in developing countries using local building traditions, local building materials and local work force.
GLI is not a protest group, like so many other environmental organizations seem to be, but rather a community that seeks to gather people who would like to take part in constructive, creative and collective action for a better and more sustainable future through green technology. Our goal is first and foremost to inspire and thrill, to be a group that would like to teach others through our example, rather than being a group telling others what they should not do.
Our community web site runs on the open source content management system, Tikiwiki
, version 2.2.
GLI accepts members from all over the world. As a consequence the pages will be kept in English, with the exception of some of the forums that will be dedicated to discussions in other languages. We also have a blog in Norwegian. Please read our Posting Guidelines for further details about how to participate.
Projects
Sunalign
Automatic heliostat control system
Teaching 3D cooking
(solar cooker, hay basket, rocket stove) in the Philippines
Learning with LEGO
The environmental fact book
GLI Thunderbird 10 KW wind turbine
GLI Firefox solar stirling engine
SHEC solar home energy center
The choice of the names Thunderbird and Firefox is our tribute to the open source software community, not only to the people involved making Mozilla Thunderbird
and Mozilla Firefox
, but to all people involved in the community driven social production of software that is the Open Source movement.
As with open source software, any member of the community can initiate a new project. Just go to the Projects-page and start a new wiki-page, and a new project is born. The admin will create a new forum for the newborn project when he discovers it. Please send a message to the admin if that does not happen within a few days.
All Projects
Become a member, it is free and easy!
Membership is open to anyone from anywhere. It is free of charge and very easy to become a member of Green Life Innovators. Just
sign up for a user name and passwor
at this website, and you're in. Then afterwards, please take some time to
edit your user preferences.
Just like with any other community on the Internet, all members choose to which degree they would like to participate.
As a general rule anyone can read most of the contents of this web site, but in order to be able to post anything to this site, you have to register for an account.
NOTE: You don't need to be a hard core techie to join this community, enjoy it and be a valuable contributor. If you look around our site, you will see that not everything we do is high tech.
Member challenge, Level 2 Easy: Make GLI a logo
Read about The Logo Member Challenge
All open member challenges
Read about the 5 Member Challenge levels
Member challenge, Level 3 Medium: join the "Second Life" task force
Join a task force to go into the virtual world of Second Life and promote our community there and find ways we can use Second Life in our work.
Read about The Second Life Member Challenge
All open member challenges
Read about the 5 Member Challenge levels
Tikiwiki help?
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Practice editing a Tikiwiki page on one of our practice pages
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