Social Entrepreneurship
Don't need your car today? How about renting it out?
In California, three companies have started up to allow car owners to connect with people are who are looking for cars to rent for a few hours. The pitch is that it's an environmentally friendly way to share your car, make a few bucks and not worry about liability.
How organic food saved a hard-luck, Vermont town
Journalist chronicles how the hard-luck town of Hardwick, Vt., prospered thanks to a local organic food movement, but ironically, residents can't afford organic food prices....
Skyscraper greenhouses could be farms of future
Vertical farms could help solve environmental problems associated with agriculture in order to make cities more sustainable....
Radio flourishing in post-Gadhafi Libya
New radio stations run by young volunteers broadcast everything from music and comedy shows, to how to treat captured Qaddafi soldiers....
Copenhagen power plant turned into ski resort
Intrepid architects from Copenhagen are turning a power plant into a man-made ski hill, and creating a new kind of 'hedonistic sustainability.'...
Lab in rural India solves community's unique problems
A clothes dryer that works in rainy season, a fruit dryer and other innovative, low-cost solutions developed by a lab in the rural Indian community of Ujire....
Making mobile phones conflict-free
A Dutch team is applying the principles of the fair trade to mobile phones to combat the 'conflict mineral trade.'...
'Green' grocery store lets you package your own food
A new supermarket lets shoppers bring in their own reusable containers for everything from butter to beer....
Harnessing tides for electricity
Clean energy entrepreneurs are exploring how to turn tidal power into zero-emissions electricity with very little environmental impact....
A video game designed to heal
Playmancer is designed to help with physical rehabilitation as well as mental health issues, like bulimia and gambling addiction....
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My Other Car's the Tardis (20 May, 2013 11:37:03)I think you dropped a letter in the album's title: "Ela" is "she"--not "he"--in Portuguese.