- Wikihouse are extending the principles of open source design into architecture. Okay, it’s mostly little prefab sheds and demonstration projects at the moment, but it’s a start.
- It’s not really related to anything on this site, but there’s a great story on Smithsonian.com about a Russian family that was cut off from all human contact for 40 years.
- The WorldWatch Institute’s State of the World report is out. It has the provocative question ‘is sustainability still possible?’ as a theme.
- Kiva, the microfinance website, has branched out into the developed world context with peer to peer platform Kiva Zip.
- In the unlikely event of needing some new sunglasses this summer (sigh), how about these social enterprise bamboo glasses from Bambooka?
The Earthbound Report 