CA Companies Wait in Line to Become B- Corps B-Corp law went into effect in California this week and a “a band of smiling millionaires, papers in hand, waiting to sign on the dotted line” stood outside the office of the CA Secretary ...
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 of 200 miles of new bike lanes across the five boroughs. Now the ...
Bikes may be trendy, but they are also just a way to get around. How can people who use bikes in different ways be united for the good of the community? City of Lights started in 2009 in Los Angeles to make visible ...
Can public art projects effectively draw attention to areas of a city that need change? Cyclists from Broken City Labs believe so: they set up these large, brightly-colored letters reading “MAKE THIS BETTER” to call attention to Ontario's "dead-zone" neighborhood known as "Ripper's ...
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: Here’s a story that brings together lots of the hot topics of 2010: Chevrolet (@ChevyVolt) announced ...
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 (@GE_Reports) released a new light bulb that promises to last a whopping 22.8 ...
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 Twitter feed @CelebrateGreen alerted us to an interesting experiment this week: Workers at the design ...
Welcome to Fixes. This is a series about solutions, or potential solutions, to real world problems. It focuses on the line between failure and success, drawing on the stories of people who have crossed it. Most of us tend to be better informed ...
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 week the Seattle City Council voted to create a citywide “opt-out” ordinance for phonebook publishers, ...
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: Just as we went to press with last week’s Twitter Roundup, Google (@google) announced the winners ...