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Social Innovations

TEDxVolcano: Stranded in London

Cara Mertes, the director of the Sundance Institute's documentary film program, called it the first "flash forum" she'd ever attended. Truth is, last night's TEDxVolcano gathering was the first such instant event that any of us had ever attended -- a little over two hours of short talks, film clips and music that had been pulled together (crowdsourced) spontaneously by blogger Nathaniel Whittemore and several other cause-wired souls for the hundreds of Skoll World Forum attendees stranded in London... (continue reading this blog post)

Global Issues

Sustainable Living: Becoming an Unconsumer

A new buzzword has surfaced thanks to the recession: unconsumption.

Unconsumption describes the now savvy and respectable trend of reducing, reusing, and recycling. It's a conscious consumerist mentality. In other words, it's the opposite of the buy-now-throw-away-tomorrow culture that permeated most of the 90s... (continue reading this blog post)

Water

The Water Cycle with a Human Twist

Remember what your middle school science teacher told you about the water cycle? Water evaporates, condensates in clouds, travels across the land, precipitates as it encounters land elevations, run in torrents, penetrates the grounds, sits in undergrounds or surface lakes and eventually flows towards the ocean.

When you hit grad school and you're determined to dig up the story yourself by putting together all the pieces of a very fragmented system, here's what you learn the water cycle really looks like... (continue reading this blog post)

Environment

LEED the Way

Philanthropy

Nau and Again

Nonprofits

Clean Sweep

Global Issues

Research: The End of the World Is Nigh (Maybe)

Global Issues

What’s Next: Treks, Plugs, and Rock ‘n’ Roll

Government

What’s Next: Jolly Old Eco-land

Social Innovations

Cultivating the Green Consumer