Actor Edward Norton (Fight Club and American History X) spoke today at the Mashable Media Summit to announce the launch of Crowdrise, a social good website that gives individuals and organizations the tools to organize grassroots activism campaigns and raise funds for their causes. Continue reading Full Post on Mashable.com.
Over the last week the team created a new power-up for Puff Puff, our iPhone game that has Embedded Generosity baked into it to help protect coral reefs. Below is a screen shot where you can see the Spiny Puffer with the latest power-up in action. The power-up appears as a force field that surrounds [...]
Recently we discovered a pretty inspiring video from a panel discussion titled, Natural Capitalism and Transformational Design. Panelists included Paul Hawken and Amory Lovins (two of the three authors of the book Natural Capitalism), along with Ray Anderson, Carl Bass, and Janine Benyus. Here’s the video: For those not familiar with the book itself, below [...]
Yesterday, Bruce Lowry, the communications director at the Skoll Foundation, posted a video showing highlights of day 2 of the Skoll World Forum. Really inspiring stuff: Follow the Forum action again today on the Virtual Forum site.
Yesterday we asked Can 6th Mega’s iPhone game change the world? Today we’d like to take a moment to introduce you to a new online game: Evoke A crash course in changing the world. Although we’re not playing (too busy trying to roll-out our own social innovation) it looks awesome and is is directed by [...]
We’ve been doing some thinking on the best way to license our software (the first being the Puff Puff iPhone game). The license has to align with 6th Mega’s mission as a Social Business as well as needs to be open source and available to be remixed (see our post, Remix this iPhone game). When [...]
The idea of a Social Business was introduced by Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus. He came to the idea through his experiences in forming the Grameen Bank, which was designed as a solution for the rural poor. The story of the Grameen Bank is truly amazing. Here’s a video of where Muhammad Yunus tells [...]
