In New Jersey or Virginia, there are two gubernatorial races of various levels of excitement. In far northern New York, there is  a very contentious House race. If you live in Atlanta, New York City, Boston, or any number of other cities, you have mayoral and city council races in which to vote. And, perhaps most interestingly, in Maine, voters will decide whether or not to uphold the recent decision to allow gay marriage. So,…

Two venture capital firms (Atlas Ventures & General Catalyst) have created a a new initiative (TUGG – Technology Underwriting Greater Good) dedicated to catalyzing and spreading social entrepreneurship in New England.

By bringing together technology companies, entrepreneurs and venture capital, TUGG is aiming to help young people realize their full potential by empowering individuals and the community to identify important issues and collaborate to solve them. That’s an awesome mission.

Checkout and support thier upcoming event: Thursday,…

This week, as children and young people all over the country return to school from their summer vacations, we turn our attention to some educational locales in Massachusetts. We often think of the Bay State as being home to a number of the nation’s oldest most venerable educational institutions, and it is. Yet for her visual exploration, “Places of Education,” the photographer Lissa Rivera canvased an array of the state’s public and private schools, universities, Greek societies,…

“Boston Gears Up for Biggest Bike-Sharing Program“, nytimes Bike-sharing is no longer just a european thing. Many US cities have began seeing bike-sharing as a way to reduce traffic and a clean up the environment.Boston’s efforts are on the large scale but a more grass roots approach are also in effect in places like Portland, ME. In Portland locals developed the White Bike project, which salvages old bikes and make them available to all. GOOD also has…

This article was previously published in the Boston Globe by David Filipov.

Boston has launched a high-profile campaign to become a friendlier city for cyclists. Now the question is whether bicyclists will become friendlier to Boston.

On any hour of any day, Boston bicyclists routinely run red lights, ride the wrong way on one-way streets, zip along sidewalks, and cut off pedestrians crossing streets legally – even though bike riders are supposed to obey the same traffic laws…

In New Jersey or Virginia, there are two gubernatorial races of various levels of excitement. In far northern New York, there is  a very contentious House race. If you live in Atlanta, New York City, Boston, or any number of other cities, you have mayoral and city council races in which to vote. And, perhaps most interestingly, in Maine, voters will decide whether or not to uphold the recent decision to allow gay marriage. So,…

Two venture capital firms (Atlas Ventures & General Catalyst) have created a a new initiative (TUGG – Technology Underwriting Greater Good) dedicated to catalyzing and spreading social entrepreneurship in New England.

By bringing together technology companies, entrepreneurs and venture capital, TUGG is aiming to help young people realize their full potential by empowering individuals and the community to identify important issues and collaborate to solve them. That’s an awesome mission.

Checkout and support thier upcoming event: Thursday,…

This week, as children and young people all over the country return to school from their summer vacations, we turn our attention to some educational locales in Massachusetts. We often think of the Bay State as being home to a number of the nation’s oldest most venerable educational institutions, and it is. Yet for her visual exploration, “Places of Education,” the photographer Lissa Rivera canvased an array of the state’s public and private schools, universities, Greek societies,…

“Boston Gears Up for Biggest Bike-Sharing Program“, nytimes Bike-sharing is no longer just a european thing. Many US cities have began seeing bike-sharing as a way to reduce traffic and a clean up the environment.Boston’s efforts are on the large scale but a more grass roots approach are also in effect in places like Portland, ME. In Portland locals developed the White Bike project, which salvages old bikes and make them available to all. GOOD also has…

This article was previously published in the Boston Globe by David Filipov.

Boston has launched a high-profile campaign to become a friendlier city for cyclists. Now the question is whether bicyclists will become friendlier to Boston.

On any hour of any day, Boston bicyclists routinely run red lights, ride the wrong way on one-way streets, zip along sidewalks, and cut off pedestrians crossing streets legally – even though bike riders are supposed to obey the same traffic laws…