On the heels of Kiva’s big announcement of hitting $100 Million dollar in raised funds, they also turned 4 and had a wonderful birthday celebration. Over 700+ people attended the sold-out bash co-presented by The Hub Bay Area, The David Brower Center, and GOOD, and at the beautiful Brower Center space in Berkeley.

Hundreds of social enterprise organizations were represented at the event, fostering countless conversations and connections valuable to all attendees. The growing interest and emergence of…

Next Tuesday November 18th, The UCLA School of Theater, Film & Television, Melnitz Movies, International Documentary Association and the UCLA Institute of the Environment will screen No Impact Man.

No Impact Man
James Bridges Theater, UCLA
November 17th, 7:30 PM
Free, Parking $10 in Lot 3

Author Colin Beavan, in research for his next book, began the No Impact Project in November 2006. A newly self-proclaimed environmentalist who could no longer avoid pointing the finger at himself, Colin leaves behind…

GOOD has always been a huge supporter of Kiva; we covered them when they were just getting started. Four years later, Kiva has raised almost $100 million in microloans, landing them in our GOOD 100 issue. Next Tuesday, join GOOD and Hub Bay Area at The David Brower Center to celebrate Kiva’s 4th birthday. Cheers to another four years!

Kiva’s Fourth Birthday Party
Tuesday, November 3
6:30 p.m. to  9:30 p.m.
The David Brower Center
2150 Allston Way
Berkeley, CA

There will be live music performances…

On the heels of Kiva’s big announcement of hitting $100 Million dollar in raised funds, they also turned 4 and had a wonderful birthday celebration. Over 700+ people attended the sold-out bash co-presented by The Hub Bay Area, The David Brower Center, and GOOD, and at the beautiful Brower Center space in Berkeley.

Hundreds of social enterprise organizations were represented at the event, fostering countless conversations and connections valuable to all attendees. The growing interest and emergence of…

Next Tuesday November 18th, The UCLA School of Theater, Film & Television, Melnitz Movies, International Documentary Association and the UCLA Institute of the Environment will screen No Impact Man.

No Impact Man
James Bridges Theater, UCLA
November 17th, 7:30 PM
Free, Parking $10 in Lot 3

Author Colin Beavan, in research for his next book, began the No Impact Project in November 2006. A newly self-proclaimed environmentalist who could no longer avoid pointing the finger at himself, Colin leaves behind…

GOOD has always been a huge supporter of Kiva; we covered them when they were just getting started. Four years later, Kiva has raised almost $100 million in microloans, landing them in our GOOD 100 issue. Next Tuesday, join GOOD and Hub Bay Area at The David Brower Center to celebrate Kiva’s 4th birthday. Cheers to another four years!

Kiva’s Fourth Birthday Party
Tuesday, November 3
6:30 p.m. to  9:30 p.m.
The David Brower Center
2150 Allston Way
Berkeley, CA

There will be live music performances…

Sierra Club recent magazine issue unveiled their recent list of the top “green” universities across the nation.

The issue looks at the increasing trend of “green” as a reason to choose one school over another.

“Ten years ago, I don’t remember any student asking me about green campuses,” says Steven Roy Goodman, a college admissions strategist at Topcolleges.com. “Now it’s quite common for students to be keenly interested in how environmentally responsible colleges are.”

“Today, two-thirds of university applicants say…

Best Buy is giving away $1 million through the Best Buy Change Exchange, and teens age 13-18 have all the decision making power of where the money goes.

Teens can earn points through the @15 website through activities like referring a friend, posting in the forums, games and quizzes.

Every four months all the built up points are turned into a large donations and given to four featured charities. The second “@15 Change Exchange” is ending today, July 30,…

Ashoka, a global association of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs, has teamed up with the Staples Foundation for Learning, a private foundation created by Staples, Inc. to announce the Excellence Winner of the Staples/Ashoka Youth Social Entrepreneur global competition. Pachamama, from Tepeolulco, Mexico, was announced the winner last month. The organization develops and teaches environmentally friendly alternatives to current agricultural practices.

“Together, Staples and Ashoka provide young entrepreneurs with a chance to show how their Ventures…

Bringing new meaning to the phrase “dumpster diving” is an urban revamp project/private party in industrial Brooklyn. Dumpsters are given the Cinderella treatment, transforming them into swimming pools. Add a few pool chairs and an iPod, and you’ve got a “lo-fi urban country club”.  A lucky few are privately invited to join the refreshing summer fun to escape the New York heat.

“There aren’t that many places to swim in New York…and dumpsters are everywhere;…

I always admire those who solve problems in the most seemingly implausible ways.  Such as this: Ithaca, New York has designed local-use only cash called ‘Ithaca Hours’. With the current economic crisis, loss of jobs and little money for local economies, why not bypass The Federal Reserve and keep everything local?

“Ithaca Hours is a local currency system that promotes local economic strength and community self-reliance in ways which will support economic and…

Since 1978 the Food and Drug Administration has been promising to provide sunscreen standards to help the public understand what they are buying and how well it will work (if at all). This hasn’t happened though, so the Environmental Working Group has been taking matters into their own hands. They do an annual review of thousands of sunscreens to test their effectiveness and how many hazardous chemicals they contain. Their results are astounding.

I always cringe at environmental paradoxs: using plastic bags at the farmers market, buying organic produce grown in Chile, taking showers twice as long because you have a low-flow shower head, the list goes on.  

But here’s one that I found oddly appealing: Green iPhone Apps. Yes there are plenty of rare minerals inside my iPhone and it consumes a lot of energy to charge, but perhaps that can somewhat be canceled out by one…