Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 19, 2013

Her success fighting against a plan to build a waste transfer station in Hunts Point and then spearheading the South Bronx’s first open-waterfront park in more than 60 years was a turning point. open source design or DIY manufacturing) to create customized products in small batches and the global reach of the Internet to sell them.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Besides being a launch pad for shiny new gadgets, MWC has also been a forum for green technology news, digital inclusion efforts, low-cost smartphones, and other mobile for good innovations. In open source news, ZTE announced two smartphones that run Firefox OS 1.3, the Open C and the Open II.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 24, 2009

Cheryl Dorsey, the President of Echoing Green , a nonprofit that provides seed funding and support to social entrepreneurs, talked about how providing capital for social innovation can: Provide incentive for individual and collective engagement around social problems. Engage people who are closest to the problem.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 16, 2007

I talked to Chris Messina of Citizen Agency and Ivan Storck of SustainableMarketing.com about their green coworking space in San Francisco, Citizen Space for the Big Vision Podcast and have posted a transcript of the interview below. Britt Bravo: What is coworking, and how can you make it green?

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