It’s scary to think that as diabetes and obesity among American children continue to increase – for the first time ever, this generation of children could be outlived by their parents. …
Over the last twenty years, BaSiC Initiative has focused its design and educational practice on 90% of the world population, which is plagued by pover ...
For more than 40 years, the “Barefoot College” has been working to improve the quality of life for the poorest of the poor in rural India.
Thomas Sowell’s book, Basic Economics, is required reading for Design Management students at Pratt. In his book, Sowell champions the principals of ...
In September 2010 TED launched the “Ads Worth Spreading Challenge.” TED’s curator, Chris Anderson, explained that the objective was “to seek how to reverse the trend of ads being aggressively ...
Is Groupon creating a new trend or are they simply using new technology to capitalize on a human behavior that has been around for decades? It seems every generation has ...
By Willem Van Lancker, UX Designer, Google For most of the twentieth century, manufacturers dictated how the average American consumer lived. The consumption-driven lifestyle model was introduced in the early ...
In February of this year, in the middle of the delicate political situation in Egypt, The New York Times published an article called, ”Climate Change Drives Instability, U.N. Official Warns.” ...
Reviewed by Giselle Carr Desire means different things to different people. In “What’s Mine Is Yours,” authors Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers argue that our collective desires for material goods ...
By Summer Rayne Oakes & Benita Singh, Source4Style Executive Summary Source4Style is an online marketplace that connects sustainable suppliers to designers and retailers through a user-friendly system of carefully curated ...
by Richa Agarwal Executive Summary BRAC’s Microfinance program is one of the oldest initiatives of its kind in Bangladesh. Programs that were founded in 1974 are beginning to be more ...
This morning (February 9, 2011) John Replogle was named as new CEO and President of Seventh Generation, a producer of an environmentally friendly product lines. Replogle is leaving Burt’s Bees ...
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