StartingBloc: Building Connections Between Social Innovators
Friday, July 10th, 2009 Posted in Community, Green News | Comments OffNominated by Elizabeth Yang Bettering the world is an ambitious agenda for any individual. So imagine a global network of 1,100 movers and shakers, infected by a shared StartingBloc experience, crazily doing good work on different social ...
StartingBloc: Building Connections Between Social Innovators
Friday, July 10th, 2009 Posted in Community, Green News | Comments OffNominated by Elizabeth Yang Bettering the world is an ambitious agenda for any individual. So imagine a global network of 1,100 movers and shakers, infected by a shared StartingBloc experience, crazily doing good work on different social ...
Living Cultural Storybases: Using Technology to Preserve Cultural Diverstiy
Thursday, July 9th, 2009 Posted in Community, Green News | Comments OffNominated by Howard Rheingold Paul Rankin's quest to use digital technologies for cultural preservation, literally from Timbuktu to the Himalayas, makes him of a kind of do-gooder Indiana Jones for the Web age. As ...
Fashion-able. Hacktivism and engaged fashion design
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009 Posted in Community, Green News | Comments OffJust found out (thanks del.ico.us/hacktivism) that the utterly brilliant and fascinating thesis of Otto von Busch, Fashion-able. Hacktivism and engaged fashion design, is available as an online PDF. Otto sent me a paper copy of the ...
Fashion-able. Hacktivism and engaged fashion design
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009 Posted in Community, Green News | Comments OffJust found out (thanks del.ico.us/hacktivism) that the utterly brilliant and fascinating thesis of Otto von Busch, Fashion-able. Hacktivism and engaged fashion design, is available as an online PDF. Otto sent me a paper copy of the ...
And the Prize Goes to…incentive2innovate
Monday, June 15th, 2009 Posted in Community, Green News | Comments OffIncentives. Results. How to align incentives to achieve real results is one of my many takeaways from the past 2 days, which I spent at the incentive2innovate conference, a non-traditional gathering of big business types, entrepreneurs, ...
Funding Grassroots Solutions: Creating Skunkworks for Local Innovation
Thursday, June 4th, 2009 Posted in Community, Green News | Comments OffBy Suzie Boss Grassroots innovation can be an incredibly effective strategy for building community systems that are useful, lasting and resilient. The power of local innovators is their ability to focus on what’s do-able today, with ...
Funding Grassroots Solutions: Creating Skunkworks for Local Innovation
Thursday, June 4th, 2009 Posted in Community, Green News | Comments OffBy Suzie Boss Grassroots innovation can be an incredibly effective strategy for building community systems that are useful, lasting and resilient. The power of local innovators is their ability to focus on what’s do-able today, with ...
When Councils Get Clever
Thursday, May 21st, 2009 Posted in Community, Green News | Comments OffBy Hannah Bullock Innovative approach helps local authorities connect with their citizens – and save money too. “The public sector is not conventionally thought of as a hotbed for innovation,” admits Peter Madden, Chief Executive of Forum for ...
Volunteers Needed: TED Open Translation Project
Sunday, April 26th, 2009 Posted in Community, Green News | Comments OffTED has already proven itself an invaluable resource in the English-speaking world. Now it's about to unveil a new project that will catapult its archive of mind-bending talks to a new global public. Through the TED ...
NetSquared Challenge: What Will Cell Phones Do Next?
Thursday, March 19th, 2009 Posted in Community, Green News | Comments OffSan Francisco-based NetSquared (an initiative of TechSoup) is currently collecting entries for its fourth annual challenge. The contest helps to get social benefit projects off the ground. Winners in the contest's first three years have included worldchanging ...
Jeff Howe on Crowdsourcing
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009 Posted in Community, Green News | Comments OffIn 2005, journalist Jeff Howe was writing a story about MySpace. He wasn’t interested in the site so much as a social network, but as a tool that creative artists, especially musicians, were using to circumvent ...
In Hard Times, Public Places are More Important Than Ever
Friday, March 13th, 2009 Posted in Community, Green News | Comments OffThese are times that wrack our nerves. Every day seems to bring more news of job lay-offs and stock market losses. Walk around most neighborhoods and you’ll see vacant storefronts and foreclosed houses. USA Today recently ...
Rising Voices, TED, Pop!Tech And The Challenges Of Innovating… Everywhere
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 Posted in Community, Green News | Comments OffA journalist recently asked me what had surprised me most about the success of Global Voices. There have been a lot of surprises with this project - the passion with which our volunteer community has embraced ...
Rising Voices, TED, Pop!Tech And The Challenges Of Innovating… Everywhere
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 Posted in Community, Green News | Comments OffA journalist recently asked me what had surprised me most about the success of Global Voices. There have been a lot of surprises with this project - the passion with which our volunteer community has embraced ...
Watch this Video: L.A.’s East Hollywood ArtCycle & Block Party
Thursday, March 5th, 2009 Posted in Community, Green News | Comments Offby Clarence Eckerson, Jr. The bike scene in Los Angeles is alive and well - and growing every day. Streetfilms rode along with one of two ArtCycle tours of local studio spaces sponsored by the East Hollywood Neighborhood ...
Increased Cosmopolitan Communications Leads to More Trust, Reduced Nationalism
Friday, February 27th, 2009 Posted in Community, Green News | Comments OffProfessor Pippa Norris of Harvard’s Kennedy School, is focused on “Cosmopolitan Communications” for her forthcoming book, titled “Cultural Convergence”. Working with Ronald Inglehart of the World Values Survey, she’s studying the ways that communications impact the ...
National Award for Smart Growth Achievement: Now Accepting Entries
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009 Posted in Community, Green News | Comments OffThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced the call for entries for its eighth annual National Award for Smart Growth Achievement. The contest recognizes both public- and private-sector applicants who have used principles of smart growth ...
Getting Real in the 21st Century
Friday, January 9th, 2009 Posted in Community, Green News | Comments OffThe chief project of humanity has long been fulfilling basic material necessities: clean water, food, warmth, clothing, healing, transportation and livelihood. In the face of such immense needs, no one was too particular about how these ...
Inventing a New Kind of Family for a New Era
Monday, January 5th, 2009 Posted in Community, Green News | Comments Offby Jay Walljasper During the holidays, people gather together with their families (parents, grandparents, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins, close friends) for food and kinship. These gatherings, especially in the United States, can be a rare chance to ...