Paula Daniels is working to transform our food system through the nationally networked implementation of a powerful idea: the food purchasing of large institutions, which can and should better reflect society’s values of economic equity, environmental sustainability, and public health.
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Transforming Schoolyards, Our Most Abundant Public Spaces
Green Schoolyards America founder Sharon Danks has a plan to turn asphalt schoolyards across America into green spaces that improve children’s wellbeing, learning, and play while also contributing to the ecological health and resilience of cities. Ashoka’s Michael Zakaras caught up with Danks to...
Four Gov Tech Startups Among Finalists for Urban Innovation Challenge
Government Technology, a online publications highlights four gov tech companies who are among 10 finalists for the QBE and Ashoka Urban Resilience Challenge, a new innovation competition in which startups will pitch ways to improve life in cities to a panel of business and social impact leaders in...
Alley Gating and Greening: The Baltimore Story and How CG Began
How the Patterson Park neighborhood created wonder out of an alleyway, and How Community Greens Began
Montgomery Park: Boston, MA
The rich history and impact from one of the country's oldest and impressive Community Greens
Chandlers Yard: Baltimore, MD
How the neighbors in the Federal Hill neighborhood turned a vacant alleyway into a quiet courtyard escape from the bustle of Baltimore
Community Greens Communities
Discover examples of Community Greens from around the United States that have transformed neighbors, neighborhoods, and their cities.
Robin Chase: leading one entrepreneurial coup after another, like Zipcar
If anyone understands the profound transformation of society that is now upon us, it is Robin Chase. (See her admired book, Peers Inc.) She not only sees it clearly; but she also, in one entrepreneurial coup after another, is putting its new architecture in place. She co-founded Zipcar and was its...