An Environmental Quality Analyst with the Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE), Courtney Fung works on hazardous waste sites to clean them up so they are usable or at least so they present less of an exposure risk…
Campaigns for social change and consumer brands are often reluctant bedfellows but Jo Hobbs and Maddie Smith are big believers in corporate matchmaking. Hobbs is chief executive of the British Youth Council (BYC), while Smith is U.K. managing director of…
This June, the Biden administration’s new two-year fellowship program to get technologists into the U.S. federal government launches its first cohort. For Caitlin Gandhi, co-founder of the U.S. General Services Administration’s U.S. Digital Corps, it is step one in a…
“Politics is basically how we as a society decide to set the rules and solve our biggest issues,” says Damian Boeselager, a 33-year-old member of the European parliament (MEP) who has represented pan-European party Volt since 2019. Together with two…
There are now over 100 biobanks worldwide, ranging from small university-based repositories to larger collections supported by governments. These collections of human biological samples, stored in cryogenic facilities could revolutionize medicine by giving researchers access to population-wide data through which…
Liam Black has an ambitious – some would say utopian – idea. Put 3,000 social policy makers together with climate change activists, human rights lawyers, diversity campaigners, and philanthropists, give the concoction a shake and a stir, and expect the…
We launched our latest podcast series, Driving Change Books, as the summer began. The series is hosted by Matthew Bishop, a former Economist journalist turned social entrepreneur and the author of several books, who talks with the authors of some…
In India, an elected member of Parliament (MP) represents, on average, 2.5 million citizens. This is by far the largest political representation ratio in the world, more than three times that of the United States’ House of Representatives. Does this…
As teen protesters swarmed Miami’s City Hall in 2019 “with big banners and strong advocacy”, their demand that the city declare a climate emergency fell on deaf ears. But one lawmaker listened: Ken Russell, the City Commissioner for Coconut Grove,…
Since 1989, the Atlanta, Georgia-based Carter Center has played a quiet but critical role in laying the groundwork for enduring democracy across the world. A non-partisan organization founded by former US president Jimmy Carter, the center has played an umpire-like…