A while back, the folks over at YellowBrickRoad reached to us with an opportunity to review their new book, Actions Speak Loudest. During the past few weeks, in my spare time, I’ve had a chance to dive in and am pleased to say I’ve enjoyed the content and intent of the book.
It’s a [...]
Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ) began in 1970 working with young children and their families as the city’s first truancy-prevention program. Since then HCZ has been led by Social Entrepreneur Geoffrey Canada and become a beacon of light within a city that has lived through the best of times and the worst of times.
In Whatever [...]
Worldchanging: A Users Guide for the 21st Century is receiving rave reviews from across the social innovation space.
Business Week calls it a “[...] smart, hip mini-encyclopedia of what’s new and what’s next in green technologies and earth-conscious ideas.”
Denis Hayes, the founder of Earth Day, says, “Worldchanging might well be the most complete, compelling articulation [...]
I sat down with my friend last week and we started discussing sustainability, organic food and the book, In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan (the author of An Omnivores Dilemma).
The book discusses how the United States’ food system centers around protein as the master nutrient, which has given us cheap (but unhealthy) meat [...]
This week’s book was chosen from a unique perspective, it isn’t just about being green, it actually is green. Made from 98% recycled materials, the Green Start Series by Ikids is composed of educational books, games and puzzle combinations.
Throughout the Green Start Series, parents can teach their children about exotic locations like the Amazon [...]
The following is a guest post by Rehab Chougle, an engineer by profession and writer by choice. She resides in Mumbai, India and writes on topics within social entrepreneurship, politics and book reviews. Someday, Rehab hopes to publish a novel of her own.
It is remarkable… the kind of passion one man can have, to [...]
Welcome back! I thought nothing could be better for our second week of socially conscious book recommendations then a book that talks about changing the world.
In The Power of Unreasonable People: How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets That Change the World, John Elkington and Pamela Hartigan discuss a new breed of “unreasonable” social entrepreneurs who [...]
For the last four months I have been helping with Ashoka’s social media initiatives and acquired quite a plethora of knowledge. One of the random tidbits of information I picked up is the book of choice in the Ashoka Washington D.C. headquarters. So what does someone at one of the largest social entrepreneurship organizations [...]
