Sarika Bansal
On its face, the desire to travel and do good seems like a win-win endeavor. No wonder each year over 10 million international travellers -- usually young people from North America or Europe -- flock
Paul Rossi
As the pandemic began to rage across the U.S. in March 2020, social services and nonprofits struggled to meet demand. Many communities came together and stepped into the vacuum and have continued to do so
Driving Change
At Driving Change we have been looking in depth at the micromobility movement, how it started and its impact on cities and people's well-being. Have you started using a bike-sharing scheme since the start of the pandemic? Have
Carolyn Whelan
When it comes to commuting, research shows that a mix of faster and more carbon-friendly ways of getting around bring outsized financial and health gains to low-income communities. Either paired with mass transit or on
Carolyn Whelan
The bicycle is an unlikely winner of the pandemic. In the past year, Paris has permanently cleared out cars on tony Rue de Rivoli near the Louvre to ease its flow of bikes, buses and
Carolyn Whelan
As the original ‘Bicycle Kingdom’, China was often associated with its iconic flying pigeon bicycles. Millions of state-backed bikes shuttled folks between farming jobs and home. But in the 1990s government officials started to encourage
Esha Chhabra
One of the first companies to earn the right to carry the ROC (regenerative organic certified) kite mark is Dr Bronner’s Magic Soaps, a California-based family-owned maker of organic soaps and personal care products. It
Driving Change
Louise Brown, the world's first "test-tube baby", was born in Oldham, England, on July 25th 1978. Her arrival prompted wide-ranging public debates about the ethics of in vitro fertilization and related issues about the emerging
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Following his election as Prime Minister of India in 2014, Narendra Modi launched Swachh Bharat (“ensuring cleanliness”), a major drive to improve national cleanliness and hygiene standards. At its heart was a gargantuan effort to
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Objecting to the high prices being charged by foreign pharmaceutical companies for life-saving anti-retroviral drugs, in 1996 the government of Brazil announced that it would force the licensing of their production in the country, for
