Community land trust
A community land trust is a nonprofit model that holds land for community benefit, often to keep housing affordable across generations.
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Mutual aid
Mutual aid is organized support among people who share resources, services, and care to meet needs together rather than through one-way charity alone.
Time banking
Time banking is a community exchange system where people earn credits for hours of help and spend those credits on help from other members.
Library of Things
A Library of Things is a lending collection for useful physical objects beyond books, such as tools, kitchen equipment, camping gear, games, instruments, technology kits, and household devices. It helps people borrow items they need occasionally instead of buying, storing, and discarding them individually.
Eurostat
Eurostat is the European Union statistics website for finding official European data, indicators, database tables, Statistics Explained articles, and API access.
World Bank Open Data
World Bank Open Data is a global development data website for browsing country indicators, datasets, DataBank tables, data catalog records, and API access.
Data.gov
Data.gov is the United States open data website for finding government dataset metadata, agency catalogs, public data resources, and catalog API access.
Daylight Saving Time
Daylight saving time is the seasonal practice of setting clocks forward, usually by one hour, so daylight falls later in the evening during part of the year.
Hanseatic League
The Hanseatic League was a loose network of northern European merchant towns that protected trade, negotiated privileges, and shaped Baltic and North Sea commerce in the late Middle Ages.
Montreal Protocol
The Montreal Protocol is a global treaty that phases out ozone-depleting substances, helping the stratospheric ozone layer recover while shaping later climate and chemical-policy cooperation.
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize is an international set of awards rooted in Alfred Nobel's will, honoring work in science, literature, peace, and economic sciences that is judged to have major benefit for humanity.
Antarctic Treaty System
The Antarctic Treaty System is the set of agreements that keeps Antarctica reserved for peaceful activity, scientific cooperation, environmental protection, and managed debate over territorial claims.
Education
Education is the organized process of learning and teaching, helping people build knowledge, skills, values, judgment, identity, and opportunities across life.
Law
Law is a system of rules, institutions, rights, duties, and procedures that societies use to organize authority, resolve disputes, regulate behavior, and pursue justice.
Political science
Political science studies power, government, institutions, political behavior, public policy, law, conflict, cooperation, and relations among states and societies.
Economics
Economics studies how people, firms, governments, and societies make choices under scarcity, and how those choices shape prices, jobs, income, trade, growth, and policy.
Anthropology
Anthropology studies humanity across time and place, connecting culture, biology, language, archaeology, evolution, and social life.
Sociology
Sociology studies social life, explaining how groups, institutions, culture, inequality, identity, and social change shape human behavior and experience.