Tag: social entrepreneurship
How a typeface can save money and lives
Graphic designer Don Meeker helped create an entirely new typeface for the nation's highway signs, and it may be saving lives....
Unemployed get makeovers in France
An innovative program in France provides salon-style help for the nation's unemployed, to help them restore their confidence and get jobs. ...
Test tube sheep save endangered species
The SVF Foundation farm in Newport, Rhode Island, freezes animal embryos to save endangered heritage species from extinction....
Afghanistan history dramatized for the Pentagon
"The Great Game," a series of short plays about foreign involvement in Afghanistan, is being performed for the Pentagon....
Creating jobs in Haiti
A new program from MIT aims to help create jobs in earthquake ravaged Haiti. ...
Bringing gay tourism to Nepal
Sunil Pant, Nepal's first openly gay member of parliament, wants to bring much-needed tourism dollars to his home country....
Helping immigrant food entrepreneurs
The San Francisco-based nonprofit, La Cocina, helps immigrant entrepreneurs launch food businesses....
Tracking pollution in Lebanon
A chemistry professor teams up with a car manufacturer to figure out just how polluted Lebanon's streets are....
Species seekers: crazies for the environment
So-called "species seekers" have risked their lives, sabotaged others, and changed the way people think of the world and themselves....
Italy says addio to bottled water
An Italian co-op is trying to convince people not to buy its bottled water, or any other bottled water, either....
