Make a Difference

I met Emily Stenning while we were both studying at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. From the moment I met her, she was constantly working o...

After the Soviets' scorched earth practices deforested the country, the bombings following 9/11 and years of severe drought and strict Taliban rule, Afghans have become some of the poorest people in the world.

Te Electric Power Research Institute in Palo Alto, Calif., estimates that 400,000 tons of carbon dioxide could be cut, along with $250 million in energy costs, if every U.S. house switched standard incandescents to energy-saving LED Christmas lights.

I imagine everything we do is based on a feeling, and on that day it all became clear for me. These children were going about their day in poverty - but happy - and their indifference to their need struck me. I no longer saw "global poverty" as a Sally Struthers infomercial that made

Ashoka is the global association of the world's leading social entrepreneurs, and a GOOD Magazine nonprofit partner. We sat down with founder Bill Dra...

These are small drops in the planetary bucket but with such industry role models, perhaps we can have our air travel with a little less guilt.

Dancing for six hours straight in a college-campus building might sound like a bizarre way for college students to spend a Friday night. But this Worl...

"A dangerous and patronizing cliche we often hear is, 'Give a man a fish and feed him for a day -- teach a man to fish and you feed him for life.' People living with chronic hunger have generations of wisdom about 'fishing' -- the problem is the barbed wire around the lake."

Rewind time machine to 18 months ago.... As VP of Marketing for Business.com, I looked for ways to get entrepreneurs in touch with the resources they ...

Last week, Huffington Post readers had the following conversations in response to the above "Green Team" video: Green Team on FunnyOrDie.com Balzac...

Words By Daniel Brook Illustrations By Ted McGrath As heartening as it is to see universal health care back on the national agenda, it's puzzling ...

When people ask me what I do for a living, my short answer is, "I'm working to save the world, starting in the South Bronx." Yes, the South Bronx is...

Can someone who orders a particular kind of coffee bean for their latte say they're seriously supporting free trade? Is an executive who buys carbon offsets to make up for that private plane trip to Milan doing something to stem the tide of Global Warming?

Every year at Thanksgiving time I get nostalgic and think about San Francisco and long to celebrate this one holiday with my friends and then I remember that they are both gone.

Since 1991, Corman has contributed his talent to the Special Olympics, documenting the passion and potential of the athletes.

There's nothing quite like the traditional pleasures of minstrelsy mixed with the euphoria of making a virtuous consumer choice.

We have far more power to make a difference than we believe we do. Small positive actions have huge impact, often in ways that aren't even visible to us when we take these actions.

I took it on as a personal challenge. The twenty second-graders in my class were going to learn to play the guitar.

Girls in classrooms were consistently undermined and overlooked. They're taught to behave, in every stage of learning, in every sort of school. Except in girl's schools, of course.

What were you doing 10 years ago? I was on my fifth publishing start up. ZDNet Anchor Desk had nearly 3 million daily email subscribers and was the ...

With few exceptions, 178 million plus turkeys will come from animal factories,1 while the vast majority of our fruits, vegetables; even vino will travel hundreds of miles from foreign farm factories.

Today my sister and I launched Women Moving millions, an initiative for the advancement of women's lives through a massive change in giving to girls and women.

Father Greg Boyle wants to stop the causes of gang violence, instead of waiting to clean up the results.