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If you’re not familiar with Playing for Change, it’s a band and foundation created by Mark Johnson, who spent four years traveling and filming musicians from around the world (local and street...
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"Gimme Shelter" is a track that Playing For Change have wanted to record for years and today they can finally share it with all of you. This song expresses the urgency they all face to...
Playing for Change is a band and at the same time a foundation created by Mark Johnson, who spent four years traveling and filming musicians from around the world. Playing for Change is a...
Nature’s Calendar is the home for thousands of volunteers who record the signs of the seasons where they live. It could mean noting the first ladybird or swallow seen in your garden in spring, or...
Companies like Facebook became a huge success because they innovate. The best way to innovate is to proactively respond to social change. You have to be ahead of the game, but not so far ahead that...
Steve Crawshaw and John Jackson adapted this article for YES! Magazine from their book, Small Acts of Resistance: How Courage, Tenacity, and Ingenuity Can Change the World. In this article, they...
Social media could bring hundreds and even thousands of people together to support and fund a cause they believed in. Whereas compelling causes used to rely on expensive infomercials, direct...
The seismic shift that has already occurred in the marketplace needs to be duplicated in corporate boardrooms. Young companies are signposts for the future and guidelines for how industry mainstays...
Here's a few examples of how cellphone technology is used to change lives of those in the developing world: Ushahidi has been used to map everything from earthquake damage in Haiti to...
Here are ideas on how crowdfunding will continue to evolve: 1. Vertical platforms will emerge to focus on select market segments. 2. Crowdfunding platforms will evolve into “full-service”...
Tim Schafer thought long and hard about a solution to this situation, until he decided,half-jokingly,to set up a Kickstarter fundraising appeal and ask his stubborn fans to put their money where...
A well written and thoughtfully presented article on how social media is changing the ways that companies interact with their customers to gain new insights and ideas through open innovation.
After crowdsourcing her business logo, Rebecca Chang learned some important lessons and considerations: 1) Creatives can’t afford to spend too much time on your logo (especially if your award is...
Science is driven forward by discovery, and we appear to stand at the beginning of a democratization of discovery. An ordinary person can be the one who realizes that a long arm of a protein...
With participation of consumers at the core, Tim and Robert see a changing role for companies in the future. Where companies used to add value by efficiency and knowledge, their adding value will...
As new crowdfunding sites pop up and businesses and creative projects become reality because of contributions from a global marketplace, the collaboration of investors from every corner of the...
The hype started with Tim Schafer and Double Fine generating over $3.4 million on a campaign looking for $400K.Following on from this initial success, a number of other long-time luminaries have...
TruthMarket, a division of Truth Seal Corp., today announced that registered member, Ellen Davis, launched a campaign challenging climate change deniers to prove that more than 5% of credible...
Open Source Hardware (OSHW) is a term for tangible artifacts -- machines, devices, or other physical things -- whose design has been released to the public in such a way that anyone can make, modify, distribute, and use those things. The official version of the "Open Source Hardware (OSHW) Statement of Principles and Definition v1.0" has now been published. This publication can be seen as profound and game-changing as the original "Open Source Definition," created by Bruce Perens and the Debian developers as the "Debian Free Software Guidelines" in 1997.
Skeptic paper doesn’t necessarily “reject the consensus position” that humans are causing global warming. It may address a more narrow issue like ocean acidification or the carbon cycle.
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