With the world becoming smaller thanks to the Internet, it’s also turning the living room into a prison of sorts. No longer is it necessary to go out to meet people, to possibly find “the one” who will…
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QUEST FOR CHANGE: Social networking for social change
Social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter proved integral to success of last year’s Arab Spring. The revolutions in the Middle East showed how social media can unite people across…
MOTIVE TO GIVE: What motivates volunteers and how to recruit them
Volunteering is often defined as: “the act of selflessly giving your life to something you believe in, free of pay. Although volunteers may…
TRANSITION INITIATIVES: Engaged community building to combat climate change
A Transition Initiative is a place where there’s a community-led process that helps that own/village/city/neighbourhood become stronger and happier …
MIX AND MATCH: A look into the world of interracial relationships
An attitude of inclusion has been developing amongst young Canadian adults, as race no longer plays a large role when choosing a significant other…
FIND YOUR HIDDEN PASSION: How to discover what’s right for you
Many believe that your work should reflect what you love to do so much that you’d want to do it for free. But many of us wander through life clueless as to what…
How to design a neighbourhood for happiness
Biology is destiny, declared Sigmund Freud. But if Freud were around today, he might say “design is destiny”—especially after taking a stroll through most American cities. The way we design…
Time to grow our souls
The world’s eyes are on the escalating struggle to defend the collective bargaining rights of Wisconsin public workers. Some people have even called the growing mobilization a transformational movement…
But transformational organizing takes more than growing numbers.
Online censorship blocks creative expression
Artists have lots of problems. We get plagiarized, ripped off by publishers, savaged by critics, counterfeited—and we even get our works copied by “pirates” who give our stuff away for free online…
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CHANGECAMP: A network dedicated to community transformation
I believe that much of what causes us to gather around the word “Change” from such diverse walks of life comes from the reality of the world in which we find ourselves. Our problems are outstripping our capabilities to solve them.
OPEN SOURCE JOURNALISM: Jay Rosen profile
Jay Rosen was born in Buffalo, NY, in 1956. Both sides of his family were Jewish immigrants from Poland: one grandfather arrived in North America via New York, the other via Toronto. Rosen’s…
MINDFUL TEACHING: Unleash students’ potential—teach mindfully
In living mindfully, it is presence that truly matters. How, then, might our presence as educators transform the classroom? If we are present to ourselves, if we insist on the value of that standpoint…
GRASSROUTES: Engaged citizens use social media to build better communities
The transformative power of the Internet is more than access to information; it is increasingly about contributing, collaborating, and participating. Metaphors based on information highways, are…
Cyclists reclaim the streets through critical mass rides
I was the first to arrive at the usual meeting place across from City Hall. I saw other cyclists quietly pass through the square, looking around to see if a discernible group had formed. Eventually…
YARNBOMB! Beautifying public space through knitting
Over, under, through, we settle into a rhythm. Our click-click-clicking becomes a trancelike song. For perhaps half an hour we set about marking our territory, focused on one goal. As a police…
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