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!
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Active Projects
One way of decreasing the costs of food and increasing the quality of life of farmers would be to offer an alternative to big-company-made crop...
designbreak
desigbreak is a website that is designed to facilitate discussion and collaboration on engineering and other projects. This is the website that you...
tents for the poor
It was recently brought to my attention that shelter and shade in the developing world are a huge problem. I've been thinking about tents for some...
Land Growth Test Kit
The concept of this project is to provide a kit to farmers which over the period of a season can test how different crops and different treatments of...
International Needle Exchange Program
A program like this one would help prevent the spread of diseases (like HIV and Hepatitis) in areas of the globe where injection-related substance...
Affordable Pool Chair Lift
There already are different types of pool chair lifts available for sale in most economically privileged countries. (Some examples of this are...
International Collaboration Format
The idea of this project is to develop a format for writing a text is such a way that it can be better (more coherent) translated using a translation...
designbreak-bugs
This project is about reporting the bugs in the designbreak website. Please feel free to report the bugs.
Recent Discussion Items and Blog Entries
I just wanted to know what you are doing right now for your project designbreak? As there is no new message on the site, maybe your project is in...
Land Growth Test Kit -- Appropriate kits
Zac, I think you are basically proposing agricultural extension advice. See:...
International Collaboration Format -- Great idea ...
I think this is a really good idea, we need to research how google translate works. zac
designbreak-bugs -- Logout while switching languages
Hi, (its me the good Gabe, not the evil-looking administrator Gabe) I wanted to point out that I often get logged-out when I switch languages. Why...
designbreak-bugs -- Internal eMail system
I can reply to someone's messages, but when I try to write a new message, I can't put someone's name in the recipient's place
designbreak -- some suggestions for designbreak
I have a suggestion for designbreak--when a project you are on is updated, you can choose to receive email updates. What do you think?
naloijos
I read the article, 'The Impact of Environment Labelling on Consumer Preference: Negative Vs. Positive Labels', and it had some interesting...
naloijos
I found an article that is about a label that has been developed called 'Nordic Environmental Label'. It is similar to what we are doing I found a...