All around us people are working to solve pressing social problems, but these stories can be difficult to track down. So we'll be scouring the Web regularly to highlight a few of them. See below for this week's selections.
Search for the hashtag #socent and you'll find wide-ranging interest in social entrepreneurship on Twitter. Here's a roundup of a few thought-provoking tweets from the last week: The Guardian's Michael Brunton-Spall (@bruntonspall) reported from the Activate Summit in London that eBay founder Pierre Omidyar’s ...
“Capitalism used to be easy,” writes R. Paul Herman in the opening line of his new book, The HIP (Human Impact+Profit) Investor: Make Bigger Profits by Building a Better World. Businesses, he argues, used to get away with jeopardizing the long-term health and ...
The folks at L.A.-based Project H Design like to make things that matter. Project H and its network of socially motivated designers have built playgrounds that teach math in South Africa, designed rugged wheelchairs suitable for the developing world, and pioneered a therapeutic, ...
What if, instead of seeing banner ads for reality TV shows or credit cards, you saw ads of your own choosing that encouraged a sustainable lifestyle? Sounds like a bunch of do-gooder propaganda, eh? Well, that’s because it is – literally. DoGooder is ...
Last November, student activists won what the New York Times called the “biggest victory by far” in the history of the anti-sweatshop movement. Ten months earlier, Russell Athletic, the sportswear company, closed a factory in Honduras shortly after the workers unionized. In response, ...
These days, there's no shortage of buzz about the power of crowds. The idea that wired masses can be harnessed to accomplish tasks that even large organizations could never handle is very attractive. Groups now invite supporters to do such things as help ...