A cloud seeding project was underway near Albany only hours before the town was hit with flooding.
ArtPlace likens its role to providing venture capital, seeding projects that already enjoy strong local support and connecting with an area's development strategy to attract more private and public dollars.
Unlike Rockethub, Fundly, Indiegogo, Kiva and Causes, which are primarily online hubs for donations or loans, Kickstarter is all about seeding projects through collaborative funding (crowdfunding), as well as collective creativity (crowdsourcing).
Coventry's Seed project addresses this problem by replicating the world of work.
The conservancy will finance the seeding project with a $50,000 grant received last month from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The Sowing New Seeds project can only take place with the participation of people within the community.
The Dare to Design SEED project, at Guild Lodge in Preston, saw service users design a concept of how a ward should feel and function.
The weather's warmed up and the daylight has improved – the Garden Organic Sowing New Seeds project has moved up a gear.
When, in 2010, Garden Organic began their Sowing New Seeds project to research and promote exotic vegetables, their wise first port of call was to the allotments.
Samantha Dobbie from the University of Birmingham presented some of her findings from an extensive survey of allotment holders conducted around Birmingham as part of the Sowing New Seeds project.
The Sowing New Seeds project is all about getting growers from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds to share their unique knowledge for growing exotic crops.
