This blog shares some key insights on Equity Crowdfunding Dos And Don’ts, as discussed by equity crowdfunding experts at the EU Startups Summit 2025. Latest Experts’ Guide To “Equity Crowdfunding Dos And Don’ts”| Crowdsourcing Week
Crowdsourced urban planning and design provides community input through open innovation challenges and prizes, crowdsourced data, and civic crowdfunding. Crowdsourced Urban Planning: Designing Cities with Community Input| Crowdsourcing Week
Crowdsourcing has transformed space exploration to include private companies, citizen scientists, and volunteers contributing data, ideas, and funding. The Exciting Impact Of Crowdsourcing On Space Exploration| Crowdsourcing Week
California's agricultural Central Valley—so rich in output, so poor in median income—is the focal point of trends in immigration, in education, in political trends, in sustainability. The post Finding the City of Lost Hills appeared first on Our Towns.| Our Towns
Americans like to know where they are from—and like to think about where they might go. These contradictory realities are part of America's past, and of its future opportunities. The post The Enduring Power of Place appeared first on Our Towns.| Our Towns
At Our Towns, we’ve been following the tools and applications of geospatial information systems (GIS), as they have progressed from promise to delivery. GIS helps in countless ways: for cities… The post How Story Maps Drive Progress appeared first on Our Towns.| Our Towns
We've just lived through 50 years of an invention that transformed neighborhood life in much of America, the gas-powered leaf blower. That era is coming to an end. The post Local Action with Global Effects: the Saga of the Leaf Blower appeared first on Our Towns.| Our Towns
Cities are increasingly important in the work of shaping human access to health and wellbeing. As more of the world’s population moves to cities, decisions that determine whether air and water are …| Climate Civics
Ten years ago, we were searching for examples of local-level sustainability efforts. Now they are everywhere.| Our Towns
This just in! This morning I read about a candidate for UK Parliament who combines two entities – businessman Steve Endacott and AI Steve, a generative AI avatar that can engage with thousands of constituents at once, analyzing and integrating their ideas into proposals that Endacott can push in Parliament . It’s a fabulous innovation but raises many questions. | Random Communications from an Evolutionary Edge
How a regional Florida newspaper informs its citizens and encourages activism.| Our Towns
You know it when you feel it: How the public places of a town reveal a sense of its soul.| Our Towns