BRINQ's Best of the Web - Sustainability and BOP Blogs and Links

In our research and discussions we've come across a number of wonderful websites and blogs on sustainability and the Base of the Pyramid (BOP). We'd like to share them with you. We'll keep updating this list as we continue to discover more of this fantastic work!In our research and discussions we've come across a number of wonderful websites and blogs on sustainability and the Base of the Pyramid (BOP). We'd like to share them with you. We'll keep updating this list as we continue to discover more of this fantastic work!

• WorldChanging: A NewWorld is Here - One of the best all around blogs on the web, in their own words "A group weblog discussing and analyzing tools, ideas, models, and technologies for building a better future."
• NextBillion.net - by the World Resources Institute, an online community and news site to identify and discuss sustainable business models that address the needs of the world's poorest citizens
• IFTF's Future Now - IFTF's Future Now draws research and forecasting at the Institute for the Future, a Palo Alto, CA think tank specializing in the future of technology, health, and organizational change.
• ThinkCycle: Open Collaborative Design - ThinkCycle is an academic, non-profit initiative engaged in supporting distributed collaboration towards design challenges facing underserved communities and the environment.
• The Timbuktu Chronicles - Emeka Okafor is a consultant and entrepreneur with a background in Finance and Information Technology who lives in New York City. His interests include sustainable technologies in the developing world and paradigm breaking technologies in general. His blog, Timbuktu Chronicles seeks to spur dialogue in areas of entrepreneurship, technology and the scientific method as it impacts Africa.
• WorldIsGreen.com - All things green!
• Enviropundit - articles on green buildings, green energy, and more.
• Alternative Energy Blog - articles on alternative, distributed, and green energy news and technologies
• Slashdot: News for Nerds - the uber technology news site, not specific to sustainability or the BOP, but at times discusses potential world changing technologies.
• Base of the Pryamid Resource Center - a blog started up by Thunderbird MBA student Matt Berg, the site was created "to help serve as a resource for the those intersted in serving the base of the pyramid".

Favorite Community Organizations we know personally

• Catalytic Communities - providing space to document and share community solutions around the world, creating a global network of community leaders and solutions. CatComm provides both physical space (the Casa do Gestor Catalisador in Rio de Janeiro) and virtual spaces (http://www.CatComm.org/) and is based in Washington, D.C. and Rio de Janeiro.
• Carolina for Kibera - an NGO and community based organization in Nairobi's Kibera slum, one of Africa's, if not the world's, largest slums. CFK provides programs to work with youths in Kibera, reducing ethnic conflict, and inspiring youth based solutions and change. CFK is run out of the University of North Carolina but is based locally in Nairobi, Kenya. CFK was the home for our work on the Base of the Pyramid Protocol Pilot.
• Favelarte - a project by Brazilian photographer Maur√≠cio Hora, incredible windows into the world of Rio de Janeiro and the city's favelas.