Vertical Greenhouse - Non-Profit - www.verticalharvest.org

The Vertical Greenhouse is a community collaborative project that will not only grow produce locally and year around but it will also employ children and adults with developmental disabilities. This innovative greenhouse will be located on an underused town lot, adjacent to a parking garage. The growing will go up, instead of horizontally. We would like our logo/communication channels to convey a lively and innovative project.

Creative Being - Hybrid - www.creativebeing.org (not-active yet)

‘CreativeBeing.org’ is a weekly salon enabling high-minded rapport to flourish online. A moderator leads and safeguards the hour-long conversations on creative thinking. Imagine a Charlie Rose episode you join.

Building online community is an issue of social sustainability, advocating the elastic thinking and time for discovery necessary to foster in our future Thomas Edisons and Henry Fords. Our first market: home-schoolers. Extensive archives and user-submissions will be included.

The expertise offered by you Youtopians to the necessary marketing plans and goals tracking will be invaluable.

Hometown Hero Rewards, Coop - Hybrid

The Hometown Hero Rewards Program is an innovative application of socially progressive economic thinking and bottom-up solutionism. With a projected launch this coming spring, the HHRP is primed for Free Range branding, both online and on the streets. The HHRP will unite post-dollar resources with the best of human verve by rewarding participant “Heroes” with credits redeemable at local merchants. Communities will be given the power and freedom to uplift their quality of life to new heights, while the ethos of sustainability and socially responsible business will become ever more embedded into contemporary culture.