A sun-powered collective
At first blush, installing solar panels on your roof may seem like a great deal, both for your wallet and the environment. But as many homeowners have learned, residential solar…
New York City’s bike share program to launch in 2012
New York City has been on a green-bent the last few years. The city kicked cars out of portions of Times Square creating pedestrian enclaves and painted a green network…
How to get action on climate change? Hint: Don’t scare us out of our wits.
We’ve been told time and time again that telling a child they can’t do something just makes them want to do it more. It is particularly difficult to resist a…
Sustainable theory and practice at the Human Impacts Institute
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…
Last post of 2010: Recapping some innovation trends
As we teeter on the edge of a new year, after eight months in operation, we thought we’d highlight a few of the stories we came across the past year….
Emergent: How to create a profitable green energy company
The Emergent Energy Group was founded in the basement of a Tufts University dorm, and the founders, Jayson Uppal and Jesse Gossett, got their first consulting contract before they got…
Twitter Roundup – December 10: light bulbs with longevity, recycling jeans into cars, and China’s cap on emissions
Search for the hashtag #socent and you’ll find wide-ranging interest in social entrepreneurship on Twitter. Here’s a roundup of a few interesting tweets from the last week: This week GE…
Twitter Roundup – December 3: Jumo, fast trains and a food safety overhaul
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: Facebook co-founder Chris…
Mini Case Study: Heal The Bay on how to make a video go viral
Social innovators can learn from each others’ successes and failures. That’s the idea behind Dowser’s Mini Case Studies, real-world stories showing how changemakers confront practical challenges. PROBLEM: The environmental advocacy…
Smartphone apps turn citizens into scientists
Around 100 million Americans use web-connected, camera-equipped phones on a daily — probably hourly — basis. Which is why many developers are exploring how this extraordinary resource can be harnessed…
Twitter Roundup – November 12: Home efficiency scores, cigarette warnings and Yale scholarships
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: Vice President Biden…
How Fort Collins, Colorado is planning to become the world’s largest net-zero energy community
If all goes according to plan, downtown Fort Collins, Colorado will become the largest district in the world to produce as much energy as it consumes — in other words,…
Twitter Roundup – October 29: Water pumps, toilet paper and BP oil
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: This weekend, the…
Twitter Roundup – September 24: Student microloans, sparkling water, dog poop, and cruise ship greenhouses
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: That’s right, microlending…
Dowser writer Steve Spillman offsets his carbon footprint and reports back
From the grassroots to the mainstream, a growing number of Americans are learning about ways to offset their carbon footprints for a more sustainable future. There’s even an entire cable…
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