Should gas pumps come with warning labels like cigarette packs?
Rob Shirkey is the director of Our Horizon, an organization advocating for climate change warnings on gas pumps worldwide. He gave a passionate presentation earlier this month at the Toronto Sustainability Speaker Series, demonstrating with convincing enthusiasm...
Delivering Mobility: A new social enterprise is getting bikes to those in need
After a year prototyping and designing a simple and clean commuter bike, Chelsea Koglmeier founded the socially conscious bicycle company, Bikes Of Reckless Optimism (ORO). With each purchase, buyers support the donation of a bike to someone in need around the...
Thinking about being an Entrepreneur? Five Things to Consider
I often get questions as to whether being an entrepreneur is the right pathway for someone. To be honest, if you’re asking that question, it might not be right—but, it might. What I am speaking about is a long-term entrepreneur. The kind who wants to build an...
Art For Social Change: Project aims to empower young girls – with the help of their dads
Debasmita Dasgupta is an artist from India, based in Singapore. She run an arts-based initiative to promote the rights of young girls through a creative dialogue process that engages fathers and daughters. Dasgupta collects stories from fathers and daughters around...
BikeCompost Launches Virtual Education Initiative to Help Composters In Every Community
After years of transforming food scraps into soil in a north central Florida college town, the urban composting startup BikeCompost will bring their expertise out of the Earth and onto the screens of social entrepreneurs everywhere. On March 20, BikeCompost will...
New Society Publishers’ Big Leap: Employee ownership model promotes triple bottom line
On Canada’s west coast, in an orchard on British Columbia’s Gabriola Island, a small publishing house is working to give individuals the tools to change their societies. New Society Publishers was around long before the idea of social entrepreneurship became...
E-Learning Opportunities for Children are Transforming Rural India
Wednesday, February 17 is Digital Learning Day. A day to celebrate advancing education through tech, and according to the official ‘Digital Learning Day’ website, a day started “as a way to actively spread innovative practices and ensure that all youth have access...
Using the Power of Literacy To Effect Change in Guatemala
I have been a student of poverty for over three decades. Through traveling to Mexico on youth service trips, working with children and homeless populations in the inner cities of the US, studying formally at the graduate level, running a fair trade venture and now...
Tackling the Food Security Crisis in Northern Canada: One expert weighs in
We continue our series examining food security in Canada's north. Nunavut is Canada’s newest territory, officially joining the federation in 1993. Being home to some of Canada’s Northern most communities, it holds a certain amount of mystery for those of us down...
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