ImpactWith A Pro-Pipeline Trump Presidency Looming, How Safe Is The #NoDAPL Win?The protesters won a major victory this week, but the fight is far from over–especially once the pipeline company has President Trump on their side in the dispute.
ImpactWhile Eyes Were On Standing Rock, The Dakota Pipeline Was Being Drilled Under Another Water SourceWhile the pipeline may have been halted in North Dakota, construction workers just finished drilling under the Des Moines River, which supplies the water for half a million people in Iowa.
ImpactAfghanistan’s First Women-Only Coding School Just Graduated Its First ClassSome of Code to Inspire’s students didn’t even know what a keyboard was when they enrolled. Now they’re making apps.
Co.DesignExperimental City: How Rotterdam Became A World Leader In Sustainable Urban DesignEurope’s largest port–threatened by rising waters and a loss of its major industry–has reinvented itself as a playground for innovative thinkers who are trying to create a resilient city of the future.
ImpactThese Mirrored Protest Signs Were Designed To Help Dakota Pipeline Activists Confront The PoliceProtestors make the police face themselves.
TechBringing Virtual Reality To A Population That Needs It For Something More Than GamingVirtual reality lets the elderly see the world again.
Co.Design6 Ways Cities Can Prepare For The Future Of WorkFrom benefits that don’t come from your job to a basic income, cities need to be the laboratories to find solutions for a world where most tasks are automated.
Co.DesignSpain Is Changing The Names Of Its Streets, From Autocratic Men To Notable WomenWhy name a street after someone who worked for an oppressive dictator when you could name a street for Rosa Parks instead?
ImpactThe Department Of Energy’s Efficiency-Based Reality Show Is Great TelevisionIt’s Navy vs. Air Force in a battle over air-conditioning units and food waste biodigestion.
Impact5 Concrete Ways You Can Act Now To Start Fighting Trump’s PoliciesActivism is like exercising: Start with easy activities and work toward more. Here’s where to start.
ImpactWhy This Young Designer Left Behind Couture And Evening Wear For Ethical FashionHow Angela Luna went from high fashion to making clothes for refugees.
Co.DesignThese Apocalyptic Maps Show The Holes Income Inequality Has Left In CitiesTall buildings represent the wealthy; short ones represent the poor. What’s missing? The middle class.
ImpactThis Device From DARPA Makes Water-Cleaning Chlorine From Salt And A Car BatteryNow retrofitted for civilian use, the Community Chlorine Maker makes enough chlorine to treat water for a whole village. We just need to get it to them.
ImpactAt This Pop-Up Shop, You’re Buying Clothes For The Homeless–Not YourselfCrack and Cider lets you buy things like coats and hats, but they go directly to the homeless.
ImpactBringing Conservatives And Liberals Together To Talk It Out After The ElectionA series of new projects are finding ways to connect people on opposite sides of the political divide, for more measured conversations than we usually have online.
Co.DesignTo Hide This Construction Site, There’s A Living Wall Instead Of PlywoodThe 860 square foot blanket of plants will offer a much better view as this London building is renovated.
ImpactA Team Of Students Designed This Low-Cost Device To Prevent Cervical CancerThe device costs $1,500. A similar device in the developed world now costs more than $20,000.
ImpactThis Startup Is Teaching Machines To Think, Reason, And Communicate Like UsMaluuba’s AI can read a passage and then answer questions about it. Start counting the days till a robot takes your job.
ImpactLearn How Successful Social Impact Design Firms Work, With These Helpful Case StudiesProactive Practices packages lessons from the work of Ideo.org, Proximity Designs, and Mass Design Group so that anyone can understand how to use design to solve global problems.