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GoodGuide.com has released a scientist’s take on socially responsible ratings guides. Learn about this and other socially responsible guides on our updated Research Guide. That is where you can find ways to contribute that take as little as two minutes of your time!
Dara O’Rourke’s U. Berkeley based research guide has been the whispered [...]

It’s nice to see the seeds of a movement using technology to enable individual socially responsible actions. Cool People Care and Free Rice represent different ways that the internet can help people make a difference. Cool People Care is a city by city email list and calendar that hooks users up with volunteer [...]

Non-profit lifers coming to terms with a younger generation of online social citizens are the intended audience of this Case Foundation report. But after the first couple pages it offers a deeper discussion about mobilizing tech savvy youth. Can you help us figure out what we’re doing right and what we could [...]

ThoughtAndMemory.org’s user generated educational content is freely available (so is our open source Community Information Platform). By signing the Capetown Declaration we have joined a global community of educators and organizations in support of this movement. Go team!

Open source software, music sharing, and wikipedia have shown us the power of distributed cooperation. [...]

Estimating the carbon footprint of a product is more difficult than it sounds. British market Tesco is attempting to label the carbon footprint of all of its products. So far only one product has been labeled. Perhaps ThoughtAndMemory.org’s decentralized system will make accuracy in life cycle analysis easier in the long run.
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A study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project suggests that teenage girls are more frequent bloggers, web page designers, and online social network contributers than their male counterparts.

The number of female students who go on to take college level computer science classes is still remarkably low. A study by the Berkman Center [...]

Here is an example of an organized community that has adapted technology and business to meet its concerns.
In Israel, ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities have used combined purchasing power to alter the pricing system and functions of “kosher” phones.

Their incentive for turning cell phones off during their Sabbath is paying 25 times the [...]

There’s a group of Australian folks who have put a virtual candidate up for office, Senator On-Line. The idea is that every time a vote is required they’ll simply poll the internet and see how their senator should vote!