Stanford Social Innovation Review : Informing and inspiring leaders of social change

The author provides a rollicking and detailed recounting of what it takes to build a social business in Africa.

New York’s Center for Economic Opportunity tests new antipoverty programs from the mayor’s office.

Unless clean tech follows well-established rules of innovation and commercialization, the industry’s promise to provide sustainable sources of energy will fail.

Clean Energy Works Portland gets consumers—and the workforce—energized about weatherization.

By paying so much attention to managing their own risks, philanthropists are no longer attending to the marginalized people who risk so much to make change happen.

A cleaner, more decentralized energy system will provide a healthier and more secure future.

India and Africa are ideal markets for distributed solar—will some of the $513 billion in commitments made at Riio+20 get deployed there?

Social media investments will not drive a new economy powerful and pervasive enough to employ millions of people.

An update on social innovation news and events from England's capital.

Advances in reducing poverty, environmental protection, and other global issues threaten the status quo—a report from Rio+20.

Living Buildings Challenge, a project of the International Living Future Institute, is the winner of this year’s Buckminster Fuller Institute award.

A report from the first-ever EcoDistricts Institute—how 10 cities are integrating green buildings and infrastructure with community action and civic entrepreneurship.

US Federal subsidies encourage waste and incentivize unsustainable business practices.

Two documentaries explore the move from fossil fuels.

I set out to see if the organizational models of two successful Vietnamese nonprofits were location-specific.

In this audio lecture, Dr. Ann Bartuska of the U.S. Department of Agriculture shares her insight on the necessary steps to sustainably feed the nine billion people that will be living on our planet by 2050.