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The biofuel industry has been gaining popularity and attracting significant investor and media attention all across the US. A report released this month by independent research organization Worldwatch reveals that global biofuel production increased by 17 percent in 2010.

In the video above, brother-and-sister Journey of Action duo were enthralled to stumble upon one of the gas stations run by biofuel marketing and retail company SeQuential, in conjunction with their production wing SeQuential Pacific Northwest.

By now, most people have heard of "fair trade." But the real-life, on-the-ground effects of the model are often overlooked. So here's a quick breakdown of what fair trade really means.

Every Thursday, thanks to a content partnership with brother-sister duo Journey of Action, we'll be exploring Gen Y changemakers--and how they fit in with the rest of the world. This video isn't the kind of thing we normally feature on Dowser. We’re open to ...

Every Thursday, thanks to a content partnership with brother-sister duo Journey of Action, we'll be exploring Gen Y changemakers--and how they fit in with the rest of the world. Financial turmoil. Rough recoveries. Debt. The global economy seems to be, in few words, ...

Journey of Action is filming Gen Y changemakers around the world. We catch up with them in Tegucigalpa, Honduras to visit the for-profit social enterprise Tegu, a premiere wooden block maker whose innovative business model takes a three-pronged attack to social problems in Honduras.

Philadelphia restaurateur Judy Wicks hadn’t sought to become a food activist and sustainability entrepreneur when she opened the White Dog Café in 1983.  But when she learned about the dire living conditions of the pigs whose meat her restaurant purchased, she immediately took ...

A while back we conducted an interview with Joan Sullivan, who was then the Principal of the Bronx Academy of Letters, a New York City middle and high school founded in 2003. Earlier this year, Sullivan was appointed Los Angeles’ Deputy Mayor of ...

We thought our readers might enjoy a recent talk given by our founder, David Bornstein, at the Good Experience Live (Gel) conference in New York. It sheds light on our motivations for launching Dowser. In the first two minutes, David speaks about storytelling ...

We all know that that time of the month is a pain, but who knew that it causes millions of women to lose up to 45 days of work and school every year? And for something as basic as a lack of sanitary ...