When a kid makes a face and says "ugh" at the site of tofu, and you find a way to prepare it that he loves and can't get enough of, you know you're doing something right. And that is the kind of thing Sally Sampson is seeing time and again as a result of ChopChop Magazine, which she founded in 2010.
Large-scale global initiatives can be challenging to interpret on a local level, especially when they involve goals for children and education. Deport-es para Compartir seeks to render the UN Millennium Goals for Mexican schoolchildren through physical activities to build students’ capacities for local ...
Could we have outgrown modern agriculture? Dr. E Ann Clark thinks “agriculture was never designed to be sustainable,” and argues in recent research that we need to re-vision our food production systems entirely for today’s needs. We do not have a whole-scale sustainable ...
Average American homes today are using essentially the same amount of energy per year as they were in 1970s – which seems odd, given the improvement of heating systems and household appliances, and a heightened emphasis on energy conservation. So how are we ...
Why are gender-based issues primarily considered “women’s” issues? Josie Lehrer founded the Men’s Story Project (MSP) to rethink this faulty truism. Intended for local replication, the MSP uses performance and dialogue to create public spaces for men to share their experience of male ...
Have to have all your news the minute it breaks? The new Delayed Gratification Quarterly is working to change your mind. Started by Rob Orchard and Marcus Webb's Slow Journalism Company, the magazine hopes to remind us what fast news can’t do, says ...
PROBLEM: While some applaud the power of social media to create social change, others doubt that information and discussion moves users to action. This fall, Malcolm Gladwell took a strong stand against the role of social media in changemaking, stating that connections formed ...
About 1.2 million American students drop out of high school each year, at great cost -- high school graduates earn ten times more wealth over their careers than dropouts. If the students who dropped out of the class of 2007 had graduated, the ...
While working as the program director at the Lower East Side Ecology Center in New York City, Tara DePorte saw the same problem again and again -- many groups working on environmental issues were duplicating efforts by launching similar initiatives. “For instance,” DePorte ...