50/50 Make or Break
Published By Isabella Mara On Monday, October 31st 2011. Under Interactions, Services Tags: Activism, Aid, Grassroots, Social innovation, Well-being
Today it is not so easy to 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 about how to support more than one idea, and the answer is a collaborative fundraising experiment, a collection of extraordinary ...
Voluntourism-Pepy’s way
Published By Vanessa Uvoni On Wednesday, August 31st 2011. Under Services Tags: Activism, Community development, Cultural diversity, Empowerment, Environment, Grassroots, Slow, Social innovation, Sustainable behaviour
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 ...
Who is ruling our travels?
Published By Vanessa Uvoni On Tuesday, August 9th 2011. Under Services Tags: Community development, Environment, Lifestyle, Slow, Sustainable behaviour, Sustainable consumption, Well-being
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 ...
Fog Catching
Published By Vanessa Uvoni On Wednesday, July 27th 2011. Under Products, Services Tags: Community development, Design for all, Environment, Local, Sustainable consumption, Sustainable production
The human body contains from 55% to 78% water. To function properly, the body requires between one and seven litres of water per day to avoid dehydration.
Globally, one every five person doesn’t have access to clean drinking water. Two in five do not have adequate sanitation facilities and many countries ...
Design for the other 90%
Published By Isabella Mara On Wednesday, July 20th 2011. Under Products, Services, Urban Tags: Community development, Design for all, Events, Human rights, Sustainable production, Well-being
Design for the other 90%, the name is useful to explain the global situation: while the richest 10 percent of the world’s population enjoys the vast majority of consumer goods and services, 5.8 billion people (or 90%) struggle to gain access to the basic things they need: clean water, food, ...
Participle, a Pioneer of Social Design
Published By Fatina Saikaly On Tuesday, July 19th 2011. Under Services Tags: Community development, Grassroots, Participation, Social innovation
According to Alice Rawsthorn, the design critic of the International Herald Tribune, the global edition of the New York Times, “Social Design” is on one of the most dynamic areas of contemporary design. It addresses the big social issues of our time such as ageing, poverty, health, democracy, learning, crime, ...
World’s most livable cities 2011
Published By Vanessa Uvoni On Thursday, July 14th 2011. Under Architecture, Services, Urban Tags: Community development, Empowerment, Environment, Grassroots, Innovation, Lifestyle, Social innovation, Sustainable behaviour
The "world's most livable cities" is an informal name given to any list of cities as they rank on a reputable annual survey of living conditions. The three most prestigious are, the Mercer's Quality of Living Survey, The Economist's World's Most Livable Cities (using data from Mercer as well) and the Livable cities index by the ...
The Urban Physic Garden
Published By Vanessa Uvoni On Tuesday, July 5th 2011. Under Services, Urban Tags: Community development, Environment, Events, Local, Participation, Sharing, Slow, Social inclusion, Sustainable behaviour, Sustainable consumption
The Union Street Urban Orchard is created by The Architecture Foundation, Bankside Open Spaces Trust, ProjectARKs and the Wayward Plant Registry. This summer they will transform a derelict site, 100 Union Street-Southwark-London, into the Urban Physic Garden, a pop-up community built garden celebrating medicinal plants.
The Urban Physic Garden will be shaped ...
IOU PROJECT: Fun, Profit and Social Good.
Published By Isabella Mara On Monday, June 27th 2011. Under Fashion, Interactions, Services Tags: Creativity, Empowerment, Handmade, Identity, Sustainable consumption, Sustainable production
Internet is the way to get people to see their clothes and listen to their messages. The recently launched web site IOU project is not the latest clothes brand but it is a bridge between Indian artisans and consumers.
The head of the project is Kavita Parmar. She is "a fashion designer ...
The Girl Store
Published By Isabella Mara On Wednesday, June 22nd 2011. Under Interactions, Services Tags: Aid, Empowerment, Social inclusion
In many parts of India, especially in rural areas, the tradition of stubborn preference for the male child is still dominant. Little girls are considered the worst gift from destiny. They grow up in a different system, they stop going to school very early to work at home. They are often sold ...























