Entries Tagged as 'innovation'

B Corporation - For Good, For Profit

June 23rd, 2008 by mikekarnj

With the rise of shady corporations like Enron and shady executives like the ones at Bear Sterns turning themselves in for fraud, the corporate world has turned into a profit-guzzling machine.  It'...
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Urban Next Summit

June 12th, 2008 by mikekarnj

"If you had to rebuild your city, how would you rebuild it?" Almost three years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans is still recovering from a storm that destroyed 80% of the city. While many a...
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Looking for Love in NYC? How About Volunteer Opportunties? Look No Further.

March 14th, 2008 by Abe Silk

Today is exactly one month after Valentine's Day. If you had a valentine then and still have that same valentine, then congratulations, that's no small feat in this day and age. If you had a valenti...
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TED Prize winners

March 3rd, 2008 by Jerri Chou

TED's pretty much wrapped up, but there are a ton of projects to come out of the talks, including those started by the winners of the TED Prize. Created as a way of taking the inspiration, ideas a...
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Green Freedom for All

February 22nd, 2008 by Elizabeth Foughty

  Two scientists, F. Jeffrey Martin and William L. Kubic Jr at Los Alamos National Laboratory, have come up with an idea that could potentially solve the emission problems caused by gas guzzling...
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Idea Generation

February 20th, 2008 by Justin Hakuta

alldaybuffet is ultimately about action, but more than action, it is about empowering YOU (yes all of you reading this right now) to do what YOU want to make the world a better place. We want Y...
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Play Pumps

February 13th, 2008 by Jerri Chou

We always say that doing good can be fun and nothing embodies that better than PlayPumps, which created a merry-go-round that's also a water filtering pump. Kids spin the pump, providing otherwis...
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