CivilizedNation.com is dedicated to finding and reporting stories of success from around the world. Our mission is to show real, functioning solutions to problems that face us in the 21 st century.

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Currently, we are looking for stories from around the world that fall into these categories:

•  Schools/Communities/Individuals influencing local business practices

For example, a company in Germany adopts a water recapture program that was
designed by students from a local high school in that town.

The power of this kind of article is that it shows students and teachers the
interrelatedness between something learned at school and its application in the
real world.

•  How-to stories that show how an individual/group/business has implemented a program, step by step, from start to finish .

For example, a waste management/recycling program started in a
business/school/community center. ( Waste Management at Toronto 's Hospital )

Stories of this nature (how-to) should include specific details such as:

1. startup materials (i.e. how many trash cans, trash bags, you need)
2. startup cost (i.e. paying for trashcans, trash bags, transportation, etc.)
3. startup time investment (i.e. how much time it takes to start/implement, etc.)
4. successful results (i.e. new costumes for the theatre department, decorations for the community center, professional development money, etc.)
   

The purpose of this kind of story (how-to) is to show people in similar sized communities/businesses elsewhere exactly how something can be done, so
that they can do it themselves, almost like following a recipe in a cookbook.

•  New technologies successfully employed in a household/organization.

For example, eco-friendly products, like staplers that don't use metal staples, but
rather staples made of paper. Or businesses that have successfully switched over
to something as simple as a solar powered vending machine.

EVERYDAY, new technologies are being developed in the direction of
Biomimicry, and businesses are beginning to use them. CivilizedNation.com
would like to know which businesses/communities, which technologies, for how
long, and to what successful end.

•  Miscellaneous/Innovation

For example, an innovative marketing/advertising campaign by a local business to encourage people to buy low-flow showerheads, how successful it was, etc.

Or a story covering an awards ceremony, like the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association's Green Building Awards

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We recognize that there are numerous other stories involving success that that do not fall neatly into these four categories, and we encourage you to send such stories, keeping in mind our mission statement and remembering that the most important elements of an article for CivilizedNation.com are:

1. Factual details
2. Economic viability/Environmental sustainability
3. Tangible/measureable success
4. contact information to the individuals responsible for the
   subject/program you're writing about

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Story Links : Obviously, we at CivilizedNation.com are unable to read every publication that exists in the world today. If you come across a story that you think would be perfect for our pages, please e-mail us the link with the title of the story in the subject heading.

submissions [at] civilizednation[dot]com

Thank you for your submission

 

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