Make Meaning LLC is a consulting firm that advances ethical economies, and delivers social entrepreneurship skills and training. The organization has a unique focus on facilitating interactive workshops designed as introductory workshops on social enterprise, and social entrepreneurship. Make Meaning also provides expert facilitation training on collective leadership and implementation of sustainability policy. The contact person is Laura Ballantyne-Brodie, Email: laura.b.brodie@gmail.com, who is also a trainee and youth ambassador with the LBD and YPA programs. The picture is of Laura and Darryl discussing human obligations to the Earth at the Grand Canyon, during YPA9.


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Rent the World is an outcome, and project of Make Meaning LLC. Rent the World is an education platform for learning about sustainability issues from a holistic perspective, advancing co-operative discussion through the distinct metaphor of paying ‘rent’ to the World. Rent to the World provides opportunities for businesses and individuals to pay their ‘rent’ by contributing to valuable community projects. The capital that is raised goes to bespoke community projects with social and environmental impact at their heart. It is a Youth Peace Ambassador project, discussed and approved at YPA9, associated with AUSN and open to research proposals in cooperation with the AUSN Institute for Sustainability Science and Knowledge Traditions. Rent to the World is based in New York, with chapters in Arizona (AUSN), and Melbourne, Australia.