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Apr

The Kale Project

by Meredith Mullins on April 24, 2014

Kristen Beddard, creator of The Kale Project, toasts her new life in Paris.
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Life-Changing Experiences in Paris with a Leafy Green Vegetable

This could be a story about many things.

a crusader
an expat trying to feel at home in a new country

inspiration for healthy eating
how to awaken an interest for something lost and forgotten

persistence
persuasiveness
success against challenging odds
the ability to see a problem and create a project to fix it
life-changing experiences

Or, this could just be a story about kale. Read more...

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France (Paris)/The World's Entrepreneurs

Dec

Meaningful Greetings for the Holiday Season

by Janine Boylan on December 9, 2013

Rwandan orphans overcoming obstacles through their fair-paying jobs at Cards from Africa. (Image © Cards from Africa)

Youth in Rwanda display their hand-crafted cards.
Image courtesy of Cards from Africa, a division of Good Paper

Crafting Cards and Overcoming Obstacles

When we choose our family’s annual holiday greeting cards, we try to find something that shows a bit of our personality and what is important to us as a family. After all, this is often the only letter some friends receive from me all year long!

But what if our cards could help others at the same time?

I discovered three card lines that do that. These handmade greetings are transforming the lives of people in Haiti, the Philippines, and Rwanda. Read more...

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Haiti/Philippines/Rwanda/The World's Entrepreneurs

Nov

How Creative Thinking Kicks The Soccket Ball to Success

by Sheron Long on November 7, 2013

Brain-shaped light bulb symbolizing the power of creative thinking to solve problems

When brain power lights up and creative thinking flows, people find the
good ideas that solve perplexing problems.
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In 2008, for an engineering project at Harvard, Jessica O. Matthews teamed up with Julia Silverman, to prototype a soccer ball that traps kinetic energy during play and then turns the energy into a light source.

They called it the SOCCKET because a light inserted into the ball uses the stored energy for power. Thirty minutes of play harnesses enough energy to power a LED light for three hours. Read more...

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Clever Ideas/Innovations/Making a Difference/The World's Entrepreneurs

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