SLIDESHOW: Art For A Better World: Five Exhibits That Inspire Change
Have trouble understanding modern art? Impact sought out some special exhibits that seek to make a change in the world, be it through raising awarenes...
Have trouble understanding modern art? Impact sought out some special exhibits that seek to make a change in the world, be it through raising awarenes...
Causecast | Brandon Deroche and Nicholas Chung | Posted 11.05.2009 | Impact
The following interview originally appeared on Causecast.org Bassnectar is Lorin Ashton's multi-faceted electronic music and social experimentation p...
Shira Lazar | Posted 11.02.2009 | Impact
I recently moderated a great panel, Online Locally, Act Globally, at the Blogworld Expo in Las Vegas. The panel reiterated how one individual can use social media to create massive social change.
Reporters Uncensored | Posted 10.22.2009 | Impact
In a time where people are cynical about the excesses of capitalism, and corruption in the developing world is rampant there is a lone beacon of light: the social entrepreneurs.
Ellen Futter | Posted 10.01.2009 | New York
If today, after many years of "business as usual," our society, our systems, and our institutions are all undergoing a kind of evolutionary burst, then how do we ensure that it yields change for the better?
Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater | Posted 09.30.2009 | Living
We need an epidemic of civility, we need to redouble our efforts to teach our children respect, honor, kindness and goodness.
Kate Kelly | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics
In a democracy, change does not come quickly but when it happens it's because citizens persist in voicing their desires. Those of us who are in favor of health care reform need to speak up.
Yoani Sanchez | Posted 11.13.2009 | World
Dying your hair blue, getting a tattoo or attaching a ring to your navel is no longer seen as an ideological debility. Signs have begun to sprout on bodies, of seduction and change.
Melissa Bradley | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
What has stood out for me about Ted Kennedy was his ability to balance his vision with the most pragmatic of details, across the wide breadth of issues.
Julia Moulden | Posted 09.29.2009 | Living
What's up? It's the second annual SOCAP conference, the world's premiere social capital markets event (social capital investments incorporate three kinds of returns: financial, social, and environmental).
David Roberts | Posted 09.28.2009 | Green
American people are deeply confused about how to reduce their impact, even if they wanted to. I cringe every time I see someone on TV going on about unplugging power strips.
Ariane de Bonvoisin | Posted 09.25.2009 | Living
Is 2012 the end of the world? No. It may be the end of one type of world we have been living in.
Paul Loeb | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics
The Progressive may not be able to continue without our help. I'm chipping in and hope my fellow HuffPo readers will too.
Jim Schumacher and Debbie Bookchin | Posted 09.14.2009 | Entertainment
What I remember about Woodstock was that even though I was essentially alone -- dressed only in a tee-shirt and a pair of jeans with a few dollars in my pocket -- I never once felt afraid.
Michelle Cote | Posted 07.06.2009 | Living
"I'm comiiiiinggg!" Tutu sings out from the adjacent room, the words rolling off his tongue in a playfully high-pitched refrain, before he comes wheeling and teetering -- all 5'2" of him -- around the corner of his suite at the Atlanta Grand Hyatt.
Rochelle Lefkowitz | Posted 06.20.2009 | World
Privately, often beneath their burkas, Kuwaiti women used their blackberries and cellphones to text and email, urging legislators to vote for full women's suffrage.
Leslie Hatfield | Posted 05.23.2009 | Green
It's been a big year for the food movement.
TEDTalks | Posted 03.19.2009 | Living
Barry Schwartz argues powerfully that rules often fail us, incentives often backfire, and practical, everyday wisdom will help rebuild our world.
Michelle Cote | Posted 02.21.2009 | Living
After this week's celebrations end, we will have to follow Dr. King's example and reinvest our energy and optimism into efforts whose benefits many not be fully seen for many years to come.
Paul Brest | Posted 02.09.2009 | Business
I believe that a great nonprofit organization is ultimately only as good as its theory of change. There is considerable knowledge about what works and what doesn't work in particular contexts.
Matthew Emerzian and Kelly Bozza | Posted 01.22.2009 | Living
A safe neighborhood is created when the people who live in it look out for one another and their property. Let's make it more difficult for burglars to do their job.
Gara LaMarche | Posted 01.08.2009 | Politics
We need to not only tap the power, the knowledge, the wisdom of age; we need to do that in a way that works for older adults across all economic, social, racial and ethnic lines.
Suzanne Seggerman | Posted 12.25.2008 | Living
Games let players interact with a story, rather than passively consume it. This keeps them engaged.
The Real News | Posted 11.23.2008 | Politics
"Obama will not fulfill that potential for change unless he is enveloped by a social movement, which is angry enough, powerful enough, [and] insistent enough"
Posted 11.18.2009 | Impact