Unconventional Logic

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Unconventional Logic

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A new way of thinking about real estate. It is the process of taking everyday real estate problems and breaking them apart and looking at them from different vantage points and then reassembling them to form new, creative solutions. Seeks to provide new and innovative ways of looking at real estate projects and strives to better understand and promote the relationship between the built environment and the natural world.

Unconventional Logic is a real estate consulting company that provides creative solutions for everyday real estate projects.

Services: Financial and Feasibility Analysis / Entitlements / Due Diligence / Project Management / Market Analysis / Sustainable Development / Corporate Green Real Estate Strategy / LEED Management / Sale Leasebacks / Green Leasing / Alternative Energy Assessments / Real Estate M & A Analysis / DQI Services

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Architecture for Humanity

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Architecture for Humanity

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Brings design, construction and development services to communities in need. Building a more sustainable future using the power of design. A charitable organization that seeks architectural solutions to humanitarian crisis and brings design services to communities in need. We believe that where resources and expertise are scarce, innovative, sustainable and collaborative design can make a difference. Through the power of professional design, we build safer, more sustainable and highly innovative structures--structures that become assets to their communities and ongoing symbols of the ability of people to come together to envision a better future.

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Open Architecture Network

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Open Architecture Network

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The Open Architecture Network is an online, open source community dedicated to improving living conditions through innovative and sustainable design.

The U.N. Millennium Development Goals aim to "achieve improvement in the lives of 100 million slum dwellers by the year 2015." Reaching this goal will require a profoundly new approach to improving the built environment. The Open Architecture Network aims to be just such a catalyst for change.

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Fab Lab

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Fab Lab

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Part of the MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA) which broadly explores how the content of information relates to its physical representation. Fab labs provide widespread access to modern means for invention. They began as an outreach project from MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA). CBA assembled millions of dollars in machines for research in digital fabrication, ultimately aiming at developing programmable molecular assemblers that will be able to make almost anything. Fab labs fall between these extremes, comprising roughly fifty thousand dollars in equipment and materials that can be used today to do what will be possible with tomorrow's personal fabricators.

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Center for Bits and Atoms

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Center for Bits and Atoms

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An ambitious interdisciplinary initiative that is looking beyond the end of the Digital Revolution to ask how a functional description of a system can be embodied in, and abstracted from, a physical form. These simple, profound questions date back to the beginning of modern manufacturing and before that to the origins of natural science, but they have revolutionary new implications that follow from the recognition of the computational universality of physical systems. We can no longer afford to ignore nature's capabilities that have been neglected by conventional digital logic; it is at the boundary between the content of information and its physical representation that many of science's greatest technological, economic, and social opportunities and obstacles lie.

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ChangeMaker

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ChangeMaker

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ChangeMaker is a not-for-profit organization with global links and far-sighted vision for development. It is a remarkable forum of local initiative and strategic partnerships that enabled us to grow quickly, yet comprehensively in a pinnacle of development practice where vision and action meets together to shape development models and strategies.

Economic Growth / Peace and Security / International Projects / Rights and Governance / Environment and Climate Changes / Children and Youth / ICT4D

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ApTech Village

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ApTech Village

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Technology is a critical driving force that changes the economic, social, cultural and political life. The current era of ‘globalization’ is strongly driven by progress in technologies such as those of information and communication as well as productivity and the life sciences. ApTech Village is a supportive measure that plans to “show-case” technology to enable transfer of necessary know-how as well as building up of economic, technical, and managerial capabilities for the efficient use and further development of the transferred technology. ‘Appropriate Technology Village (ApTech Village)’ plans to involve Private Business Enterprises, the Governments, and the Civil Society Organizations as suppliers and disseminators/users of technology.

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