Hi everyone,

Latest news headlines from around the world demonstrating the need for Project Bija in America and around the world.

United States: American Institute of Architects chose community for design sustainability project

http://www1.pressdemocrat.com/article/20080324/NEWS/803240310/1033/NEWS&template=kart

Sri Lanka - Provincial leader states: "Resources must be utilised in a proper way to achieve sustainable development."

People have asked if Bija means anything.   It means seed in Sanskrit.  We hope the mashup Project Bija will seed sustainable development and the name will appeal to an international audience, in particular, developing nations.

We have www.seedingsustainability.com and www.projectbija.com.

Thanks! If you have a submission, may the force be with you!

Blog posts for the mashup vote are being posted from the UK!

http://www.mysociety.org/2008/03/18/the-mashup-to-end-all-mashups/#comment-1939

http://www.designingforcivilsociety.org/2008/03/mashing-up-for.html

 Hopefully more to follow.

Ok - spent a few hours re-establishing the website at Project Bija - it was previously set up for an initiative which we hoped would be able to launch at Live Earth.  Unfortunately we couldn't convince the producers of the biggest show on Earth in time...

The site is now hosted on 2 servers, using 2 urls, sourcing creative commons photos from Flickr, stencils produced in photoshop and open source blogging and bulletin board - so its mashin up the place already - still pretty lumpy though... We will unify everything but in the meantime wanted to put the very basics in place.

Branding is a bit all over the place, with different tag lines being used variously -

Seeding Sustainability