In Texas, a housing development pioneers a fresh, holistic approach to sustainable design
In some respects, humans should envy turtles. They carry their homes on their backs and never have to pay rent or worry about mortgages. Housing is a basic need for…
‘Little actions on the edge’: John Thackara on Designing Solutions in the Bubble Economy
John Thackara’s 2005 book, In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World, argues for a world where the value of people and relationships is emphasized over the value of things….
Design Impact Reflects on its First Year Launching a Social Enterprise in India
At Dowser, we were excited to recently reconnect with the leadership team of Design Impact at the end of their pilot year launching an innovative social enterprise across India. Per…
How A Film Captures a Dictator: Granito
Earlier, Dowser reported on Granito, a documentary, which has excavated old footage for a genocide case against ex-Guatemalan dictator General Efrain Rios Montt. On January 26, 2012, we learned that…
StartSomeGood Co-founder Tom Dawkins Shares Lessons in Crowdfunding Social Enterprises
StartSomeGood was launched in March 2011 as a crowdfunding site explicitly geared toward social entrepreneurs. Their goal is to help changemakers get their projects off the ground by connecting them…
Pico Iyer: Keeping the Narrative Alive
Pico Iyer has traveled to nearly every corner of the globe, often writing about it along the way: from the holy city of Benares to remote corners of Tibet to…
Harvard’s Julie Battilana Takes the Pulse of the Social Entrepreneurship Movement
A duo of researchers at the Harvard Business School recently set out to investigate movers in the field of social entrepreneurship beyond the big names who attract the most attention. Their…
Conversations with Unreasonable Fellows: Ties Kroezen of NICE
Ties Kroezen lives in the Netherlands, but the fruits of his labor are in Africa. His company, NICE International, brings IT services and clean energy development to The Gambia and…
Allan Chochinov on Negotiating Problem Spaces through Design
Once upon a time, to be a designer meant that you made things—chairs, for example—and, in some cases, that you were focused on the needs of the wealthy, who could…
Stories of Innovation and Hope in the Motor City
Margarita Barry, a 26-year-old Detroit native, was tired of hearing nothing but dismal news coming out of her city. In response she developed I Am Young Detroit, a blog that…
Amy Clark of Ashoka on 2011 and What’s to Come in the Year Ahead
This is the 2st part of our Year in Review Series, in which we reconnect with our group of experts about the trends they forecasted for social entrepreneurship in 2011…
Sasha Dichter of Acumen Fund on 2011 and What’s to Come in the Year Ahead
This is the 1st part of our Year in Review Series, in which we reconnect with our group of experts about the trends they forecasted for social entrepreneurship in 2011…
Conversations with Unreasonable Fellows: Luis Duarte of YoReciclo
In this series we check in on Unreasonable Institute graduates. The Institute puts 25 entrepreneurs through an intense training and mentoring program to speed the development of their social enterprise….
Tracking the Unreasonable Institute Fellows: Cycle Chalao
In this series we check in on Unreasonable Institute graduates. The Institute puts 25 entrepreneurs a year through an intense training and mentoring program to speed the development of their…
Jed Emerson: What Impact Investing Has to Offer in Today’s Rocky Economy
Jed Emerson and Antony Bugg-Levine have co-authored a new book titled Impact Investing: Transforming How We Make Money While Making A Difference. Emerson has worked at Harvard and Stanford, focusing…
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