Some of these ideas, while not new, bring new perspective to the sharing table. The G4C is an amazing platform that helps articulate and circulate their stories. Take a deeper dive in. What does your community do?

Flash Volunteer starts with Seattle, but has plans to grow its hyperlocal volunteer support system into a national service challenge platform.

DoTank goes guerilla style, using local intellectual capital to spur interactive inventions, each project reflecting a community need.

Global, growing and generous, Changents.com connects social and environmental change agents with fiscal outliers. In their words they connect the people that help the world to the people that help them.

D-Build is tackling the building market with their focus on un-building first. By attaching cultural rich stories to de-constructed and salvaged material, the re-building process grows community legs. Acting first as an information center, their goal is to collect and exchange materials and knowledge, to literally help re-build community.

This is the tip of the ‘berg- Only 16 days left to nominate. We are listening. Bring the stories forward.

Our friend Dee Williams is an exceptional person. We first told the story of her “radical” choice to build and live in an 84 square foot house via a video (check it out above). We then put the video on Yahoo, where one of the editors liked Dee’s story enough to put it on Yahoo’s home page (for a mere six hours). Which was all it took for over 483,000 people to view it there.

But good stories have legs. Good stories are sustainable because they strike a deeper chord and carry meaning. So, one thing naturally led to the next. A few weeks ago The Olympian did a story on Dee. That led to a television piece on KOMO-TV Seattle and another on King 5-TV Seattle. Then, Good Morning America called. This morning Dee was interviewed on national TV about her commitment to her “dream house.”

This phenomenon reflects both the nature of media in the digital age, and the ability of authentic stories to challenge traditional paradigms in a provocatively constructive way. Nice work Dee! We all think you are exceptional, and we have huge respect for your integrity!

Our friend Dee is rad. I mean, she lives in a house the size of a tool shed, knows how to use every tool in a shed, is funny as hell and walks her talk like few people we know. For example, she’s already reduced her “footprintâ€? by way of how she lives, something we spend a little time with here, but now she’s gone and added an electric car to the mix just to keep things fun. Sure, she still has the (bio)diesel truck, but now errands and short trips are no-impact when it comes to fuel. Call it downsizing, smart sizing, going green. Whatever. I call it rad.