When a blighted city needs transformation, it’s usually a bulldozer rather than a 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, ...

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, ...

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 ...

  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 ...

  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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Albergo Diffuso is an Italian model of hospitality and a sustainable concept for territory development. Its main objective is to bring local villages and towns back to life by renovating existing structures, involving residents and using local products. The Albergo Diffuso means scattered hotel, it can be identified like a horizontal hotel ...

Design Revolution Road Show is a traveling exhibition and lectures series to bring the evidence of and tools for design for social impact to 36 high schools and university design programs across the US. It took place in the Spring of 2010. A mobile exhibition, of 40 selected contemporary ...

INCLUSIVO is a fair trade and social action project that objectives are to eradicate extreme poverty in Chile. It generates work for micro factories with low costs production and minimum expertise, key factors to overcome poverty in short term. The project is by Un Techo para Chile, a Chilean ...