Eric Smillie

A Step-By-Step Guide To Creating Your Own Sharing Economy

Sharing doesn’t have to mean just cars and apartments. There are lots of small ways you can bring the ideas behind the sharing economy into your life, and a new guidebook shows you how.

A Step-By-Step Guide To Creating Your Own Sharing Economy

A Hackerspace For Moms And Their Little Hackers

You would be wrong to think that the only people who want to go tinker with electronics and web coding are bearded men with stained T-shirts. Moms want to just as bad, and HackerMoms is making spaces where women and their children are welcome.

A Hackerspace For Moms And Their Little Hackers

Can A Font Make Driving Safer?

As screens become more and more common in cars, some choices may have more implications that aesthetics. New data indicates that the font on your display could save your life.

Can A Font Make Driving Safer?

Forget Pumps, These Tires Inflate Themselves

New technology could make testing your PSI a thing of the past.

Forget Pumps, These Tires Inflate Themselves

Can We Shop Our Way To Change?

Through new partnerships with major companies, the formerly tiny Carrotmob is now aiming to use consumers’ buying power to shape global supply chains.

Can We Shop Our Way To Change?

Impact

A mix-and-match approach to COVID-19 vaccines could help vaccinate the world—and fight the variants

These community banking institutions should be the center of the recovering economy

Americans gave a record $471 billion to charity in 2020

News

Juneteenth is the newest federal holiday: Here’s what’s open and what’s closed

23andMe jumps on stock market debut, as privacy concerns about genetic testing abound

American Airlines app leads the download pack as summer travel takes flight

Co.Design

How 14 Black creatives got 800 companies to honor Juneteenth

COVID-19 devastated healthcare workers. Here’s how to make sure that doesn’t happen again

This magical portal connects people across two cities

Work Life

We need to stop referring to work as ‘family.’ Here’s why

4 ways to close the opportunity gap for Black founders

This is how companies can get Juneteenth right this year