When a blighted city needs transforming, it’s usually a bulldozer rather than the brush that does the work. Few years ago, Edi Rama, Tirana's mayor at the time, started in a creative way to paint the sad facades of the buildings built during communism.  But what did the two Dutch artists, ...

As the energy bills continue to soar a clever solar lighting idea is diffusing across the slums of the Philippines. A 1.5 litre plastic bottle filled with purified water and three spoons of bleach and than fitted to a hole in the roof. The sun rays are curbed by the bottle. “Designed ...

Today is not so easy find an innovative good way to organize a fundraising campaign,  50/50 Make or Break project has done it. The starting point is a question around how to support more then one idea, and they think of a collaborative fundraising experiment, a collection of extraordinary digital projects ...

"We are what we do" is the slogan of Utilità Manifesta, an association of social promotion based in Terni - Umbria, composed by a group of graphic designers who are actively engaged since 2004 to raise awareness on social issues and promotion of human rights through graphic and design projects. Their ...

  I think it is never enough when we speak about behaviour change in manufacturing products. Resuming from my last post about Steelcase I would like to introduce one of their most interesting projects: The Think chair. In 2000 Steelcase was the first office furniture company to apply the Life Cycle thinking in the ...

Steelcase Inc. is a nearly 100 years old  brand that offers a comprehensive portfolio of workplace furnishings, products and services. Designing to achieve social, economic, and environmental sustainability. Steelcase was created by a few people with a strong commitment to integrity and doing the right thing for their customers, employees, ...

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o73udN_Y3Z0&feature=player_embedded What if a book didn’t just talk about saving the world – but actually did it? End Malaria: purchasing this benevolent tome literally enables you to rescue people from a tragic fate. The book features essays, tips and insights on great work by 62 writers, visionaries and thinkers including Michael Bungay Stanier, Sir ...

Voluntourism (Volunteering + Tourism) is one of the sustainable ways to approach tourism, and PEPY Tours is a model for responsible voluntourism. Pepy is both an international non-governmental organization registered in the USA and Cambodia, PEPY, and an educational adventure and service-learning tour operator, PEPY Tours that helps to fund education programs ...

  August, vacation time for antonomasia, inspired me for a series of considerations about Travel and Tourism. I love to travel, most of the people do! This makes us consumers of one of the world’s biggest industries: Tourism. For many countries, tourism is in the top three sources of foreign exchange. Italy ...

  INDEGO AFRICA is an innovative non-profit social enterprise, the name stands for “independence, development, and governance”—three life-changing attributes that Indego Africa is helping instill in 250 Rwandan women in order to lift them and their families out of poverty. The business model is simple yet ground-breaking: partnership with cooperatives of women ...