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Shop Relying On Customer Integrity Proves That Honesty Pays
Credit: Edvvc/ flickr By Sonia Zhuravlyova The Honesty Shop is a retail experience with a difference. Located in a 50-year-old double-decker bus in St Katharine Docks next to the Tower of London, it’s...
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The Greenest Office Building In The World Is About To Open In Seattle
By Ariel Schwartz Seattle’s Bullitt Center is being heralded as the greenest, most energy-efficient commercial office building in the world. It’s not that the six-story, 50,000-square-foot building is...
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North Of England Gym Becomes First To Turn Exercise Into Energy
Credit: Abdullah AL-Naser/ flickr By Paul Williams A gymnasium in northern England has become the first indoor gym in the country to generate its own power supply from energy produced by members during...
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Creating Resilient Community, Through Design And Advocacy
Credit: Dan Nguyen @ New York City By Rachael Chong Anne Frederick is the head of the Hester Street Collaborative, which works to turn the ideas of New York City’s underserved community members...
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Supporting Women In Agriculture For A Prosperous Africa
Credit: UN Women Gallery/flickr By Samantha Nkirote Mckenzie The African Union (AU) is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, but instead of looking back, the current chair, Nkosazana...
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What I Learned While Building A House
By Michelle Benoit A year ago I didn’t expect to live in Rwanda and be working in health care, but there I was. All this happened after I got a Global Health Corps fellowship to work with MASS...
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Flower Vendors Promote Election Peace In Kenya
Credit: @Doug88888/ flickr By Mohammed Yusuf NAIROBI — Flowers are often associated with love, especially on Valentine’s Day. But in Kenya, flower vendors have joined forces to send a message of...
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Anshu Gupta Brings ‘Clothing For Dignity” To India
Credit: marsha-marshmello/ flickr By Charukesi Ramadurai Anshu Gupta’s journey began in 1992 after a 6-year-old girl in New Delhi told him that she hugged dead bodies through the night to keep her...
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Burma Bakehouse Helps Disadvantaged Women
Credit: cesarastudillo/ flickr By David Schearf RANGOON, BURMA — A group of bakers in Burma’s former capital, Rangoon, is seeking to help disadvantaged women with training that goes beyond...
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We Need To Redesign Our Economy To Make It Work For Profits, People, And The...
Credit: Robert Agthe/ flickr By Feike Sijbesma When the richest quarter of the world’s population uses about half of our global resources–and take the liberty to produce half of the global...
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Occupy Sandy Builds Worker Power In Far Rockaway
Credit: WNV/ Peter Rugh By Peter Rugh Three and a half months ago, the walls upstairs at the Church of the Prophecy in Far Rockaway, a low-income coastal neighborhood of New York City, were covered...
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A Step Toward Democracy: Privately Owned Newspapers Return To Myanmar
Credit: pivi47/ flickr By Aye Aye Win For most people in Myanmar, it will be a novelty when privately run daily newspapers hit the streets on Monday. Many weren’t even born when the late dictator Ne...
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How To Power 10 Million Off-Grid African Homes In 10 Years
Credit: Esther Havens, courtesy of Off.Grid:Electric By Patrick James In the startup world, few words are wiser than “don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.” The sentiment echoes General...
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Investing In Local Food Businesses For Community Health And Wealth
By Logan Yonavjak Did you know that more than a dozen studies (see Civic Economicsand New Economics Foundation) have shown that every dollar spent at a locally owned business generates two-to-four...
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At 48 Panera Breads, You Can Pay Whatever You Want (Or Pay Nothing) For Your...
Credit: chibirashka/ flickr By Ariel Schwartz Go to any of the 48 Panera Bread cafés in the St. Louis area and you’ll notice something strange: You can pay whatever you want for your turkey chili. In...
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LeanIn.Org Pushes Women To Stick With Career Ambitions
Credit: Kheel Center Cornell University/ flickr By Maria Di Mento Rachel Thomas was busy working at Subtext, Inc., the second company she had helped to found, and juggling her job with raising two...
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Are Women Our Most Undervalued Resource?
Credit: UN Women Asia & the Pacific/ flickr By Ben Schiller Governments like to radiate the sense of doing everything they can to promote economic growth. But when it comes to one major...
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Resource Optimism
Credit: US Army Africa/ flickr By J.O’S Long before Baobab became a lowly journalist he scraped a living as a lowly academic. “If you’re so clever why aren’t you rich?” was a favourite tease of his...
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Gaza Sky Geeks Backs Tech Startups In The Gaza Strip
Photo: E. Baba for Mercy Corps. By Laura Mortara In the isolated Gaza Strip, economic instability is a constant. But a startup accelerator called Gaza Sky Geeks Laboratory plans to help the region...
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Free Life Insurance With Your Phone Bill? Ghana’s Tigo Tries It
Photo: DavidDennisPhotos.com/ Flickr By Jessica Perkins With so many African mobile users switching out SIM cards on a daily basis, how do mobile companies keep their customers loyal? By offering free...
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