To most surfers, the “Green Room” is commonly known as the vortex or location on the face of the wave where the surfer is encircled by the pitching lip (as [...]
School just got cooler thanks to 25 year old Shivani Mair. Her super savvy The Careers Surgery website, geared towards helping young people find meaningful careers, just put out one [...]
About three weeks ago, I was flipping through the channels and landed on PBS. If you know me, I spend about an average of 1 hour per week by the [...]
If you haven’t joined the hottest online community for social change, now is a better time than ever. BetterTheWorld.com, a Web site/community that allows users to donate to nonprofits by [...]
As the news profession increasingly (and justifiably) frets about its future, the blogosphere/Tweetdom/listserve conversation typically boils down to this question: How will we save newspapers? (Often, more specifically, it’s How [... ...
Our primary focus here at Social Earth is to deliver you good news about people and organizations who are dedicated to improving our world, but it would be unrealistic if [...]
For over 60 years, World Vision has been a pioneer in supporting humanitarian efforts around the world. In 1993 the organization launched a micro lending component supporting poor entrepreneurs in [...]
If you’ve been following the news over on Social Earth and Ashoka Tech, you know that we are running a blogger’s competition to find our official blogger for the Ashoka [...]
Family vacation. I have to chuckle when I read those words. I have this image of tons of a luggage, racing to get to the car on time, somebody crying, [...]
Richard Branson, Founder and CEO of Virgin Mobile, never ceases to amaze me in his ability to fuse business with pleasure in a way that advances his brand and positively [...]
Nestled deep in the Trans-Himalayan belt of Himachal Pradesh of India lies a world within a world known as Spiti and within that world, the fascinating sustainable community of Ecosphere. [...]
This post is the first in what will become a weekly series of posts from the team of bloggers at Ashoka. On Mondays, look for tech news and innovation from [...]
- It cost me a lot to make it to Durango. By 5pm, most of my friends had bailed on the idea. Some were still hungover, some too lazy to [...]
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