March 21, 2016 is the 11th annual World Down Syndrome Day, a day to spread awareness about the “rights, inclusion and wellbeing of people with Down Syndrome.” One of the biggest barriers to inclusion is special education access for children with disabilities....
After years of transforming food scraps into soil in a north central Florida college town, the urban composting startup BikeCompost will bring their expertise out of the Earth and onto the screens of social entrepreneurs everywhere. On March 20, BikeCompost will...
Wednesday, February 17 is Digital Learning Day. A day to celebrate advancing education through tech, and according to the official ‘Digital Learning Day’ website, a day started “as a way to actively spread innovative practices and ensure that all youth have access to...
I have been a student of poverty for over three decades. Through traveling to Mexico on youth service trips, working with children and homeless populations in the inner cities of the US, studying formally at the graduate level, running a fair trade venture and now a...
We continue our series examining food security in Canada’s north. Nunavut is Canada’s newest territory, officially joining the federation in 1993. Being home to some of Canada’s Northern most communities, it holds a certain amount of mystery for those of us down...
The community bike shop concept was what spurred Chris Caldwell to action about two years ago. He had no bike mechanic experience, so opening a conventional bike shop was never on his mind. “Basically I had read about community bike shops as a model, and was...
