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Blog /// Fair Trade Gets Innovative
August 25, 2010 by Jenara Nerenberg for Fast Company
Chris Haughton was named in TIME Magazine's 2007 "Design & Style 100" as a top designer to watch for his fair trade designs with eco-clothing company, People Tree, and since then he has continued in that role, but innovated and expanded into spheres as diverse as children's books, toys, carpets, and more, all with an ethical, fair trade angle. His latest book, A Bit Lost, earned him quick and rewarding reception throughout Asia, and is now available in the United States. Fast Company caught up with Haughton to find out more on his unique role in the world of design.Tags: fast company, fair trade, gifts, internet, design
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Blog /// Up for Debate: Twitter Diplomacy
July 27, 2010 by Andrea Bennett
What do Tweeting, Facebooking and texting have to do with diplomacy? More than you’d think, according to a recent New York Times Magazine article that details the efforts of two State Department employees, Alec Ross and Jared Cohen, in helping push communication from “the world of communiqués, diplomatic cables and slow government-to-government negotiations” to amplified, fast-moving communication that encourages cyber-activism and tech-based policy solutions. -
Blog /// Crowdsource Your Cause
July 27, 2010 by Andrea Bennett
Remember the old method of passing a sign-up sheet around the office cubicles and asking your colleagues to pledge a few dollars to your Walk for [insert cause here]? Now there’s a way to turbo-charge that. It’s called Crowdrise, a new online platform that allows volunteers to seek sponsorships for their volunteering by leveraging the power of the Web. Crowdrise’s founder, actor Ed Norton, should know: he helped the Maasai Conservation Wilderness Trust raise more than $1 million in two months by running the New York City Marathon and crowdsourcing donations. He based the model on his success.Tags: charity, internet, volunteering
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Essay /// A Digital Fatherhood
July 2, 2010 by Darcy Frey
Two days a week, usually on Monday and Friday evenings before she goes to bed, I open my laptop and, using the Internet, call the Brazilian city my daughter lives in 4,600 miles from my Boston apartment. If my timing is good, her mother is there to answer the call; I hear through my speakers the soft, gull-like sounds my child has made since birth, and in another few seconds she materializes on my screen, propped on her mother’s lap, her almond-brown eyes shining and alert. Sometimes she looks back at me and smiles. Sometimes, with her mother’s help, she stands up and jumps. She’s not quite walking, but she will be soon: In another three days she’ll be one. -
Blog /// Banning Facebook
May 14, 2010 by Kathy McManus
A middle school principal’s call to ban students from Facebook left some people wondering if social media use isn’t a matter of parental responsibility rather than the school’s. Principal Anthony Orsini’s email to the Benjamin Franklin Middle School in Ridgewood, New Jersey, urged parents “to take down their children’s online profiles on Facebook and elsewhere,” reported Jason Kessler at CNN.com.Tags: child protection, internet, social media, school
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Blog /// Anonymous Comments on the Block
May 7, 2010 by Kathy McManus
Should anonymous online comments be banned? Anonymity has turned Internet message boards into “havens for a level of crudity, bigotry, meanness and plain nastiness that shocks the tattered remnants of our propriety,” writes Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. With no requirement “to own what they’ve said,” Pitts says, anonymous posters are free to “vent their most reptilian thoughts.”Tags: internet, privacy, social media
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Report /// Kids on the Internet
May 6, 2010 by Discovery Education
When you were a high school student and needed to research a report, you probably trekked off to the nearest public library. Maybe you spent many dimes and a lot of time copying pages out of resource books you weren’t allowed to check out and lugging the ones you were. Research is so much easier for our teenagers thanks to the Internet. Now they have the world’s libraries at their fingertips.Tags: discovery, high school, internet
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Report /// Brave Thinkers
May 4, 2010 by The Atlantic
The Atlantic magazine identifies an inspiring group of men and women who are taking risks to advance ideas that drive society forward.Tags: the atlantic, inspiration, animation, artists, autism, internet, wildlife, cars, charity, poverty, environmentalism, goodwill
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