A sense of personal connection often plays a key role in motivating charitable donations, as nonprofits are increasingly recognizing. Much the way Don...
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Children affected by serious diseases and medical conditions either personally or in their families often don''t really understand those illnesses or ...
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No Chinese New Year celebration would be complete without Sky Lanterns, or ‚a4‚¬‚AKhoom Fay,‚a4‚¬‚¯ which get released into the sky in hopes of good l...
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With the rise of urban gardening comes a need for suitable plants, pots and accessories. Interior designer Mark van der Geest recognized a gap in the ...
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We''ve already seen some compelling examples of the change that can be wrought in local governments through the deft application of new web technologi...
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Just as it takes a community to raise a child, so too it takes a community of peers and advisors to launch a new business idea. That''s roughly the th...
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Another week, another subscription model spotted! This time, the virtual ink was still drying on our story about Bonbon''s lip balms by monthly subscr...
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Necessity is the mother of invention, as they say, and it''s also widespread in Paraguay, where some 300,000 families lack adequate housing. Motivated...
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Last year, we wrote about Green Thing''s Glove Love, which gathers up stray gloves, matches them with other lost-and-found singles and sells the pairs...
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Companies have long recognized that the best ideas can come from those in the figurative trenches, since they''re the ones closest to the organization...
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If consumers like to make their own pancakes, bicycles and wedding rings, it stands to reason that they might enjoy crafting their own dinner tables, ...
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Our sister-site trendwatching.com''s latest briefing focuses on the EXCEPTIONALL, highlighting the fact that exceptional B2C innovations will increasi...
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Patents are at the heart of countless technologies, and that can make life difficult for smaller startups, which are less likely than big companies to...
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Natural disasters and other emergency situations are very much a local phenomenon, yet little has been done so far to take advantage of the mobile wor...
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Through a yearlong pilot program, 300 New York City Department of Transportation employees will share 25 Zipcar vehicles ‚a4‚¬‚a4¯ 23 hybrids and two ...
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Following in the footsteps of Etsy-like sites including Foodzie (artisanal food), IndieReader (indie books), Market Publique (vintage fashion) and Lus...
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If mobile gaming can turn the dreary to-do list from something we should do into something we want to do, then the possibilities are surely endless fo...
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For people who have lost a loved one, moving beyond grief and mourning can seem impossible. In Germany, leading travel company TUI has teamed up with ...
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It‚a4‚¬‚a4„s a testament to the ubiquity of niche software that hand-held calculators are now a rarity in the enterprise and scientific worlds. They‚a...
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Last month came word of IKEA facilitating secondhand sales of its furniture. It turns out that IKEA isn''t the only Swedish retailer experimenting wit...
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