The following is from the beautifully articulated TBD email by All Day Buffet.
If you ran the world, what would you do? Go ahead, think for a sec. (Aside from buying an island off of Thailand and/or making someone bake you a pie every morning.) How about something as audacious as saving the world? Now [...]
I’ve mentioned Better The World (BTW) as one of the newest and most empowering tools for the citizen changemaker before, and I’ll do it again. The online social venture has just launched another helpful tool, Shop for a Cause. The tool, or EZ Shopping widget as called by BTW, allows you to give back [...]
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The Yellow Bird Project is another organization that I’ve found recently that supports my theory of Canada being a highly underrated nation. (Akoha being the first). YBP for short, this Montreal-based non-profit abides by the simple algorithm: T-shirts+charity to the tune of indie rock to creates love of music and love for the world. [...]
The problem of overflow storage has been a hindrance to the renewable energy industry, namely wind power, but the increasing demand for renewables has opened up new opportunities for technology to meet this challenge. Danish architectural firm Gottlieb Paludan has taken on this issue. They created a low tech solution for storing overflow energy, [...]
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The Feast is happening right now at the Times Center in New York City. From all accounts, the conference is an inspiring experience with thought leaders who are creating world-shaking change. If you are like many who are stuck at their office today, I have good news, you can watch the event free [...]
Eight years ago this month, a series of terrorist attacks brought down 4 planes, two towers, took thousands of lives and shook the world. Regardless of your religion or political affiliation, the attacks on that day resulted in nearly 3,000 people losing their lives. September 11th has been an un-official historic day in the [...]
The International Peace Day (IPD) movement is on September 21st across the globe. This annual event is an international effort to stop war and violence if only for one day, I can’t think of a better way to spend my Monday.
When I think of promoting peace, some of the great men behind its evolution come to mind, Martin Luther [...]
Many of you are going to pretend that this post does not apply to you because you are clearly too advanced in your years to enjoy Saturday morning cartoons, but we both know that’s not true. Most of us unashamedly adore Spongebob Squarepants, so you can stop pretending you only watch it because your [...]
Minnesota-based social venture organization Rural Renewable Energy Alliance (RREAL) recently took home the top prize at The Social Entrepreneur’s Cup in Minneapolis. RREAL was one of four finalists, out of dozens of applicants, who were asked to compete as part of the 2009 Engaged Philanthropy Conference hosted by Social Venture Partners Minnesota (the same [...]
Better World Books, BusinessWeek’s most promising social entrepreneur, is giving away free books for a year to one lucky Twitter user. The contest is called the Year of Books and will select ten random winners who complete the following steps:
Follow @BWBooks on Twitter.
Tweet the following:
I just entered the @BWBooks “Year of Books” Contest. I [...]
IDEO , an innovative design consulting firm, has partnered with International Development Enterprises (IDE), Heifer International, International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to design a step by step Human-Centered Design (HCD) guide that allows social entrepreneurs to establish their own Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) or Social Enterprise.
The toolkit is divided [...]
How can a simple $20 donation in the US, supply a village in Africa with clean water for 20 years? I was intrigued by this possibility. Only 20 dollars? For 20 years? To us in the west, clean, safe water is a mostly under-appreciated, over abundant resource, but for 1 out of 6 people [...]
