[about us]
Welcome to designbreak.org – a website specifically for collaborating on science, social and engineering projects with a global and humanitarian focus. designbreak.org is run by a 501(c)(3) non-profit, designbreak, which is dedicated to providing the support these projects need to go from internet collaborations, to a real impact on the world. Please see the about page for more information.

We need your help to get this movement and organization off the ground -- create an account and help collaborate! Anyone can create or edit projects, and please do. The ability to have your own voice is the power of wiki-style collaboration, so let our ideas into the world!

Please note that this website is designed for Mozilla Firefox!

Active Projects

FoodPrint
Once upon a time, humans foraged, hunted, and grew our own food. We have since lost that connection...

Start a cost free peer-reviewed...
Most science journals of today are a bad deal for both the scientist who publishes and for the...

Rural Farmer Debt Reduction
Overview Poor rural farmers in developing countries face a number of obstacles to improving and...

Microgovernance
The Idea This is essentially an attempt to develop a democratic rating system for designbreak...

Finding a possible model for the...
Investigating the thermodynamics of formation for Be-Peptide complexes inside alveolar macrophage...

Recent Blog Entries

designbreak
I have a suggestion for designbreak--when a project you are on is updated, you can choose to...

FoodPrint
I read the article, 'The Impact of Environment Labelling on Consumer Preference: Negative Vs...

FoodPrint
How do I add FoodPrint as one of my projects? I hope I signed in correctly.

FoodPrint
I found an article that is about a label that has been developed called 'Nordic Environmental...

designbreak
I think it would be nice to have some text editing tools that let us side-step HTML coding when...