How To Save The World From The Comfort Of Your Toilet
Lack of sanitation is a serious and deadly problem for much of the world. Who Gives A Crap is a toilet paper that uses what you take for granted--a working bathroom--and helps convert that to...
View ArticleThe Hall Pass Tour Brings Music And Empowerment To Kids Who Need It
Everybody loves music. Not everybody loves learning--or at least, they might not think they do. That’s why this national tour of concerts at schools seeks to use musical performances (by the kids...
View ArticleScouring Africa For Impactful Projects To Turn Into Beautiful Movies
What Took You So Long is a guerrilla video studio that travels around Africa, making beautiful movies about people driving change on the continent. Oh, and camels. Lots of camels.Editor’s NoteCheck out...
View ArticleBringing Real Food To The Drab Corporate Cafeteria
Why should you be forced to eat a boring meal provided by your company if there is a vibrant food culture right outside your office door? Cater2Me brings the passion of artisanal food producers to the...
View ArticleEmpowering Women With A Wriggly New Industry: Worms
Byoearth is replacing chemical fertilizer, cleaning up trash, and giving poor women jobs and a path out of poverty. What magic bullet can do all these things at once? Teaching women to be worm...
View ArticleTurning The World’s Cell Phones Into A Network Of Sensors
In your pocket, you have an incredibly powerful device that can be used to collect massive amounts of data. Nexleaf Analytics wants to help, by using our phones to quantify the world around us.We count...
View ArticleAn Online Network Supports The Growing World Of Young Female Entrepreneurs
Jennifer Donogh found that there were few resources (and fewer peers) when she tried to start her own business as a young woman. So she created YoungFemaleEntrepreneurs.com to give herself and others a...
View ArticleThese Skateboards Save Lives
If you’re looking for more than a just a killer kickflip, Hendrick Boards help save our furry friends when you buy them.Meet William. He used to be a very sick dog, but with some loving care (and some...
View ArticleTurning Rural Indians Into Water Entrepreneurs
Anand Shah’s Sarvajal is bringing clean water to India, but with a twist: the franchise model.In Sanskrit, jal is the root for “water,” and sarva is the root for “everyone.” Put them together, and...
View ArticleCreating Prototypes For Urban Space, By Combining Art And Tech
The Gray Area Foundation for the Arts is a combination gallery and hackerspace with a mission to change the way people think and interact through the power of technology and imagination.The success of...
View ArticleAn Online Community Lets You Ask Your Peers For Help With Your Problems
Spill is a place where you can anonymously tell people what you’re going through--and get advice from people who’ve been through the same thing.When Heidi Allstop was a junior at the University of...
View ArticleA Magical Paper Prevents Your Food From Rotting
Sick of your produce going south before you get a chance to eat? Fenugreen FreshPaper--the brain child of Kavita Shukla, who patented the idea while still in high school--is an herb-infused sheet of...
View ArticleThe Gates-Funded Toilet Of The Future
After an extensive search, the Gates Foundation has given millions to this futuristic power-generating toilet from Caltech--with the hope that it can be the solution to sanitation problems around the...
View ArticleA Retailer For Free Stuff, Created By Walmart, Saatchi & Saatchi, and Zipcar...
Yerdle--a new site where you can list things to give away--hopes to change how we view consumerism and make it easier to give unwanted purchases a second life.The first time I logged into Yerdle, a new...
View ArticleSupperKing, An Airbnb For Home-Cooked Meals
Have some sick cooking skills but no one to serve it to? Wish you had someone making home-cooked meals for you? This new service will help make sure everyone can go to as many dinner parties as they...
View ArticleThe Green Bronx Machine Transforms Kids’ Lives With Vegetables
A program in the nation’s poorest area uses urban farming to teach kids an entire curriculum, and create some fresh produce in the process.Nine years ago someone sent Bronx high school teacher Stephen...
View Article7 Young Entrepreneurs Changing The World With Their Businesses
These companies’ founders are all members of a new generation of entrepreneurs who are looking to find disruptive ways of making money while also giving back.The world of business is changing, and new...
View ArticleTwitter’s Manager For Social Innovation On How Social Is Shaping The Future...
Claire Diaz-Ortiz works on the microblogging service’s social good and cause marketing initiatives, so she has a perfect view of how social media is helping organizations connect their stories to...
View ArticleA $5 Light For The Developing World With An Ingenious Fuel: Gravity
The GravityLight gets power from the slow lowering of a weight. All it takes is enough elbow grease to hoist the bag, and you can light a room with nothing but a bag of sand.We’ve written about...
View ArticleMeet The 14-Year-Old Girl Who Developed A Low-Cost Water Purification System
Deepika Kurup just won $25,000 for a device that uses the power of the sun to kill bacteria in water.Rest easy, everyone. The next generation of scientists is already hard at work solving our biggest...
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