Handicrafts can decorate your home with their beauty, they can add a touch of glamor to your outfit with their ornate detailing, they can inspire trends with their natural [...]
Griffin Latulippe doesn’t quite fit into the mold of an average high school student. He is leading a talented team of students in developing assistive technology devices to help people [...]
Can we take our enthusiasm for social entrepreneurship offline? Can we make problems half a world away relevant to our everyday lives? When the demonstration in Egypt began, I was [...]
With a population of over 80 million, a large part of which is under the poverty line, and over 50 years of “democracy” in the shadow of a republic, Egypt [...]
We sometimes assume a person’s class by the visual assessment that takes place in an encounter that may take all but a couple of seconds. If we see someone that [...]
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, [...]
Nathaniel Whittemore at change.org wrote a great post recently on “Why most people don’ t care about investing in non-profits.” There is a huge amount of truth in Nathaniel’s observation. [...]
It’s rare when a politician comes along that everyone can agree with. Barack Obama achieved noteworthy fame throughout his campaign in this respect, but he definitely had (and still has) [...]
I had a conversation with my older brother the other day and it reminded me why I write for SocialEarth. At ages 23 and 22, my brother and I are [...]
The video above is one of the most eloquent and comprehensive explanations of the HIV/AIDS epidemic I ‘ve seen. In it, Hans Rosling, co-founder of Gapminder.org, discusses the progression of [...]
Recently I highlighted the Top 5 Finalists of Staples/Ashoka Youth Social Entrepreneur Competition. Now, here is the winner! Team Pachamama of Tepeolulco, Mexico took home the $5,000 grand prize for [...]
I just finished watching Home, a 2009 documentary by Yann Arthus-Bertrand. Thanks to the film’s supporters it is available for free on YouTube in English, Arabic, French, Russian, Spanish, plus [...]
What if you could turn off one little square on your computer monitor? The Black Pixel Project by Greenpeace does exactly that (and saves a little energy and money in [...]
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