Halcyon Identifies

A growing number of people are trying to improve their local communities by setting out purposefully to meet their neighbours, share skills and tools, grow vegetables and cook for one another, save energy and make their local environment cleaner.

Response

• Cooperation/Innovation/Technology - international cooperation between rich and poor countries will be key to unleashing the social and environmental change potential of advanced new technologies.

Responses - 09/11/07

• Collaboration/Environment - the first ever "Blog Action Day" saw bloggers around the web uniting to put a single important issue into everyone's mind - this year, the focus was on the environment.

Responses - 12/10/07

• Cooperation/Diversity - books, including good practice guides in business, are starting to be written by the "we" - i.e. through crowdsourcing techniques.

Responses - 04/10/07

• Cooperation - addressing problems that individual national governments cannot resolve by acting alone.