Imagine you are walking around your city, and you see an amazing piece of street art in the wall of a building. You go next to it, like in a museum, and take a look at the tag next to ...Read More
Just like the Brixton Pound, Ithaca Hours is a local currency system that promotes local economic strength and community reliance that will support economic and social justice, ecology, community participation and human aspirations. In Ithaca, New York, the group who started ...Read More
In partnership with Channel 4, Landshare is a service that allows people who are either a landowner, grower or helper to post a listing on the website, offering their services or needs. The concept of land sharing and making use ...Read More
Transition Towns start off when a small collection of individuals within a community come together with a shared concern. They begin by forming an initiating group with the intention of engaging a significant proportion of the people in their community to ...Read More
Just like all the Bicycle Schemes, StreetCar and StreetVan are a pay-as-you-go scheme based in London and other cities around the UK. The basic concept is car sharing. On average, for every car shared, this takes six private cars off ...Read More
We Are What We Do began life in a corner of East London, as an offshoot of Community Links, an inner-city charity that runs projects in Newham, one of the poorest boroughs in Europe. Back in 2004, Community Link’s founder, David ...Read More
The British DJ & MC Academy is a fresh, innovative, youth arts social enterprise that has been set up since February 2008, starting from an eight-week course with just five students. Now, more than 2,000 young people have now been ...Read More
Cities x Design as featured on DESIGN 21, is a 35-city trans-media research trip across the United States that is recorded online and will later be released in film, exhibition and book form. Through visits, observations, and interviews Cities x ...Read More
Paris, Oslo, Vienna, Miami, soon London and trials run in Brussels, Barcelona, Toronto and New Delhi are just a few cities worldwide that have introduced public bicycle schemes. Paris is known for its 'Vélib' scheme with over 20,000 bike scattered ...Read More
Modbury in South Devon was Britain's first plastic bag free town. On May 1st 2007, Modbury hit the international headlines as being the first UK town to turn its back on plastic shopping bags. All of the Modbury traders stopped issuing ...Read More