{"id":13560,"date":"2014-07-18T05:00:53","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T11:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tested-neuron.flywheelsites.com\/?p=13560"},"modified":"2015-08-21T14:49:56","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T20:49:56","slug":"source-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unreasonablegroup.com\/articles\/source-international\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard Data Leads to Big Money for Polluted Towns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"embed-vimeo\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/98977993\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>On an otherwise reasonable evening in July, more than 1,000 people packed an auditorium in Boulder, Colorado, \u00a0for the culmination of the 2014\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/unreasonableinstitute.org\" target=\"_blank\">Unreasonable Institute<\/a>. They came to watch <a href=\"http:\/\/unreasonableinstitute.org\/2014-unreasonables\/\" target=\"_blank\">11 ventures<\/a>\u00a0present their solutions to some of the world&#8217;s greatest challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Watch\u00a0one of those talks here, as we hear from Unreasonable Institute fellow Flaviano Bianchini, founder and director of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.source-international.org\">Source International<\/a>.\u00a0His Italy-based company\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wary-sunlight.flywheelsites.com\/2014institute\/meet-an-unreasonable-venture-source-international\/\">provides scientists and scientific tools<\/a> and methods to communities threatened by waste and pollution from the extraction of natural resources. Armed with the resulting data, these\u00a0communities can then press for compensation and stricter oversight.<\/p>\n<p>Source International\u00a0has operations in North America, South America, and Africa and has, to date, helped communities bring in tens of millions of dollars in compensation and as well as\u00a0marked reductions in health issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source International provides scientists and scientific tools to communities threatened by waste and pollution from natural-resource extraction. 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