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If Your Friends Owe You Money, Have Them Donate It
It’s awkward to ask your friends to repay money they owe you--but it may be a lot easier to donate it to a good cause with a new app from Unicef.
Pharma Sleuths Fight To Find Ways To Test Counterfeit Drugs
As companies and criminal organizations find ways to adulterate medicines so they can make more money, pharmaceutical companies and doctors are working to keep control by developing fast and cheap methods of verifying a drug is what it’s supposed to be. Is that Viagra in your Tylenol, or are you just happy to see me?
Fair Trade USA’s CEO On Being A Better Social Entrepreneur
Written by: Paul Rice
In innovating and evolving the Fair Trade model there are lessons for everyone trying to find solutions to global issues.
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#GunCrisis: Citizen Journalism For A Violent Epidemic
An ambitious project is chronicling Philadelphia’s explosion of gun crime, in the hopes of finding some solution to stop us from shooting each other.
Our Ridiculously Wasteful Food System, And What To Do About it
You’ve probably already thrown out some perfectly good food today, and our wasteful attitude toward food as a society costs a lot of money and environmental damage. Fixing it is just a question of changing some attitudes.
Feeding the Future
Would You Infect Yourself With Worms For Better Health?
The death of important gut-dwelling parasites that we co-evolved with may be causing the rise in food allergies and other diseases. Now scientists are working on finding ways to have us and our worms live in harmony again.
Turning Flood Waters Into Liquid Assets
Written by: Rives Taylor
As Isaac continues to pour down rain on the Gulf Coast and test New Orleans’s new flood-prevention system, there are lessons we can learn from other cities about how to design a city to make the most of too much water.
