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I like many others was completely blown away by Paul Hawken's Blessed Unrest. The last 3rd of the book is a compendium of non profit and non governmental organizations around the world that are working on social justice, human rights, sustainability, environmental and indigenous people's issues as well as many others. Hawken's describes these groups collectively as a movement, the largest movement in the history of the world. A movement that is decentralized and global.

NetSquared has created a Technology Innovation Fund. About 150 projects have been submitted on the site, and NetSquared is asking people to vote for 5 to 10 of the projects. They will then select 20 projects based upon the votes to focus on during the 2007 NetSquared conference in May.