Why Should You Develop Community Greens in your City?
Discover the benefits of developing a community green in your city
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
Community Greens Communities
Discover examples of Community Greens from around the United States that have transformed neighbors, neighborhoods, and their cities.
What does leadership mean in the 21st century?
Something remarkable happened in the three years between 2008 and 2011 that fundamentally challenged our perception of leadership. It has caused such a revolutionary shift that we could soon look back on the very notion of leadership in the same way we now view the strict rules of 18th and 19th...
21世紀におけるリーダーシップの意味は？
2008年から2011年までの3年間に、驚くべきことが起きました。これによって、リーダーシップに関する私たちの見方が、根本から揺らぐことになりました。その結果、革命的な変化が起きました。私たちは将来、リーダーシップの概念そのものについて振り返るでしょう。あたかも現代の私たちが、18世紀や19世紀の礼儀作法を非常に堅苦しいルールであると考えるように。この古い時代の遺物は多少の興味をそそるものの、自己表現と個人の成長を抑圧してきたものなのです。 7年前に始まった出来事とは、ソーシャルメディアが突如、爆発的に普及したことです。2004年にスタートし順調に成長したFacebookは...
The Age of Fast Industries and Ecosystems
People often ask me why I started working with Ashoka and why I have I stayed with Ashoka for the last eight years. I tell the story of how during my late teens and twenties I worked in Vietnam, Indonesia, Myanmar and other parts of the world where I saw extreme poverty. I remember playing with...
Building Cities of Changemakers
When you look at the work of the young and dynamic social entrepreneur Sascha Haselmayer, founder of Citymart, you can observe many different things. Most obviously, you will see a brilliant and rapidly growing open methodology (or approach if you prefer) enabling sharing and efficiency in urban...