Urban Montessori
Urban Montessori Public Charter School is one of the only few schools in the U.S. that is combining the Montessori approach, design thinking, and arts integration to provide its students with a “Changemaker education.” One of the ways that Urban Montessori accomplishes this is through community days...
Living Buildings: Ashoka Fellow Jason McLennan's Architectural Revolution
UPDATE: Since we posted this article, the Living Building Challenge was selected as the winner of the Buckminster Fuller Challenge , an annual international design challenge awarding $100K to support the development and accelerated implementation of strategies that have the potential to advance...
Colombian Fellow’s Wilderness Education Program is Celebrated by NOLS
If you live in the city, you know how difficult it can be to connect with nature and, perhaps more important, to see the impacts of our unsustainable actions. This challenge is heightened in Colombia, where a devastating armed conflict has long kept urban residents from venturing out into rural...
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...
#LeadYoung - DIY Environmentalist
Forming global communities to protect the environment.
Community Greens Communities
Discover examples of Community Greens from around the United States that have transformed neighbors, neighborhoods, and their cities.
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