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Why Global Citizens Should Care World leaders from around the world are working to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and end extreme poverty by 2030. The Global Citizen Prize ceremony at London’s Royal Albert Hall on Dec. 13 is the first event to kick off the 2020 Global Citizen campaign, Global Goal Live. The […]

Their paper examined maps, presentations and photographs made by Homewood youth, as well as interviews with them, to understand how they viewed their neighborhood. The youth had taken pictures of litter, illegal dumps, vacant lots and shuttered homes, and they talked about how gun violence affected them. Teixeira and Zuberi used this qualitative data to

The Queensland town of Yarrabilba is expected to be the first circular economy community in the country but you wouldn’t guess it from walking down the street. The real magic happens “under the bonnet” according to a circular economy consultant on the project, Coreo cofounder and chief executive officer Ashleigh Morris. Although it will look

Shropshire Council wants to pull its funding from youth clubs in April 2020 and will instead pay for six outreach workers to cover the whole county. The council says the changes do not represent cuts to youth provision, as it plans to spend the same amount of money on the new model, which is designed

At my local bakery in Göztepe, near Kadıköy on the Asian side of Istanbul, everything is made on the premises in a wood-fired oven tucked away at the back. Any space not taken up by the 1,200 white loaves they produce a day is filled with baguettes, rolls, rye, multigrain and cornbread, as well as

Tension between time and money But striking this balance can be extremely tricky—and often times, the biggest hurdle is financial. Both time and money feel like scarce and precious resources. We often feel like we have to choose between the two. Should you pay for an expensive and expedient Uber ride, or should you take

Photo: During a recent UN General Assembly meeting, speakers stressed that the window to prevent climate change from causing irreversible environmental damage will close by 2030. General Assembly President María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés called on the “last generation that can prevent irreparable damage” to make drastic changes to consumption patterns now, so that 2020 might

Entrepreneur and ace investor Martin Muoto is using one of the most potentially lucrative concepts in real estate to make a difference in his community: Opportunity Zones. The founder and managing partner of SoLa Impact, Muoto, and his Los Angeles-based social impact fund has raised over $165 million to provide mainly multi-family housing to largely

A COMMUNITY pub has celebrated its fifth anniversary years after the building was shut because of antisocial behaviour. The Bevy in Brighton reopened five years ago after Bevendean residents raised enough money to buy the pub. Run as a not-for-profit business with more than 700 community shareholders, the local is now more popular than ever.