Every year, the UN chooses a social or environmental issue of global importance -- such as biodiversity (2010) or microcredit (2005) or sanitation (2008) -- to bring attention to the issue or issues, and to drive resources toward solving them. This year, 2012, is ...
On January 23, DC Comics announced a new campaign to support to humanitarian work in the Horn of Africa, where a confluence of drought, famine, and Islamist militia rule have led some 13 million people to starvation. The campaign, called “We Can Be ...
When a good idea is executed poorly the smart social entrepreneur will often scrap the project and go back to the drawing board. In this series entrepreneurs talk about discarding what isn’t working and starting over in order to maximize social impact. Troy ...
By now, the field of social entrepreneurship is an established career path, and MBA programs all over the country have launched tracks dedicated to its study. But another field of work, also geared toward environmental and social sustainability, has flown under the radar: ...
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 week, we round up the SocEnt news and discussions you need to know. GOOD-Jumo merger shakes up social enterprise The big news in the social enterprise world this week: media conglomerate GOOD acquired do-gooder social network Jumo, the brainchild of Facebook co-founder and ...
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, ...
Mark Danner covered Haiti's tumultuous transition to democracy in the 1980s and 1990s. He knows that foreign interventions have a long history of mixed results and consequences that outsiders often overlook. "Like the ruined bridges strewn across the countryside -- one of the ...
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 ...
While you can’t force people into eating healthfully, perhaps you can make it into an enjoyable or interesting experience, which they’re more likely to choose. That’s the approach that 4food, a restaurant whose first location opened in midtown Manhattan last fall, is taking ...