Back-to-back with their recent Financial Times honors, Sparkseed has just accepted seven new student-led social enterprises into its highly selective incubator program. The incoming class of student leaders will receive seed funding, personal business coaching, hand-matched mentors, pro-bono legal services, extensive skill-building workshops, and a four-day networking summit in Silicon Valley. Sparkseed works exclusively with undergraduate [...]
Last night, the Financial Times Social Innovation Awards confirmed the rise of a new force: student innovation. The Social Innovation Awards present a forum for organizations to highlight their latest methods for addressing social needs and promoting better business. Though some of the largest and most well-known corporations were among those competing for recognition [...]
The following post is from the beautifully articulated TBD email by All Day Buffet. Carbon offsets? Cap and trade? As carbon dioxide levels reach a critical tipping point, the human race is scrambling to find solutions to the problem of climate change. But how do we make them sustainable? Jason Aramburu started asking himself that [...]
Improv Everywhere is up to their shenanigans again….They enjoyed success at their 9th Annual No Pants! Subway Ride, harnessing a crowd of over 5,000 people in New York and much more worldwide. Yet what made this year a little bit left of the norm is that approximately 20 brave souls in China decided to do [...]
If you need to stay focused this New Year, Melbourne, Australia is the right place to be to write those edgy resolutions. Why? Because Melbourne has been making some pretty eco-impressive resolutions of its own lately. Their fresh, innovative Melbourne Plan outlines their aim to be one of the most livable cities in the world [...]
Australia will make AUS$60 million (US$55.5 million) available over four years to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) for cooperation in a wide range of areas of special mutual interest. These include climate change, disaster risk reduction and emergency management; regional integration including trade facilitation; education, including in the fields of science and technology, provision of scholarships [...]
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 every once and awhile we did not share our frustrations. For me and everyone else with an environmental conscience, this week was a particularly discouraging [...]
The plight of women and girls in the developing world is a book of sobering stories with very few happy endings. Year after year, we are reminded of some of the most jarring injustices of our time, most of which go unrecognized, let alone unpunished. And yet, hope for action is on the horizon. The [...]
– I’m going to try to write this post in 350 words exactly as my own contribution to the International Day of Climate Action, approaching on October 24th. I’m giving you a 3-day heads up so that you can figure out your own action to save our planet. Why now? Because NASA climatologist James Hansen [...]
Leadership for a Better World: Creating Social Value through Innovation, held in Washington, D.C. has just announced the schedule for the September 25th forum. The event is organized around the idea of bringing together a cross-sector audience (business, nonprofit, policy and academia) for a series of discussions on how to create, lead and sustain organizations [...]
Today, we should all be having a 90-minute conversation with British actor, Pete Postlethwaite. In the eco-documentary “The Age of Stupid” – premiering today, September 21st, in the US and tomorrow worldwide, Postlethwaite takes on the role of an aging archivist looking back on the error of our ways from the year 2055. He is, [...]
The Fruit Tree Planting Foundation FTPF is a non-profit organization that plans to plant 18 billion fruit trees around the world. By planting three trees for each person alive, FTPF intends to reverse the effects of climate change – feed hungry people – connect communities – and undo the environmental damage caused by generations of [...]
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 many more languages. After finishing the movie I felt it was a must-watch. Not only is the aerial footage beautiful and dramatic, but the message [...]
