The Social Age

Looking for a cause to rally around? Here’s an even better idea. Rally around a social change agent whose efforts are really making a difference in the world. Changents connects “innovators on the front lines of social and environmental change with people who want to help them”. Join Chad Pagracke on a paid gig on […]

I’m often asked by people how they can make the transition into a job that will give them more meaning in their life. These jobs are plentiful, and smart, driven people are needed to fill them.
Idealist.org, a project of Action Without Borders, is an online community where people are connecting everyday to make the world […]

I often hear from people about how they’d really like to make a difference in the world, but they aren’t sure how. Kiva, a non-profit based in San Francisco, offers a very cool solution to help you help others. “Kiva.org allows individuals to make $25 loans to low-income entrepreneurs in the developing world (microfinance). […]

More likely than not, you’ve heard of the global musical extravaganza that took place on 07-07-07 around the world. Live Earth was billed as “a 24-hour, 7-continent concert series that will bring together more than 100 music artists and 2 billion people to trigger a global movement to solve the climate crisis”. (visit liveearth.org)
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Two weeks ago, Yahoo! Inc. launched a new environmental initiative called Yahoo! Green. The program is designed to educate consumers on things they can do to help to combat climate change.
Yahoo! executives stated that the company’s greatest potential impact on cutting greenhouse gas emissions is to educate and encourage personal change in the 500 million […]