Funding the Sun
Village Power Finance gives members of nonprofit associations a novel way to pay for solar conversion projects.
Social Issues - Articles
Lots of Opportunity
An online platform helps city governments to discover, organize, and market publicly owned property.
Bike-Sharing Goes Small
Local bike-lending arrangements offer an alternative to bigger, more complex bike-sharing systems.
Law Without Lawyers
Timap for Justice trains ordinary citizens to provide legal assistance in a country—Sierra Leone—where legal professionals are scarce.
Scoring Sustainability
Through an initiative called Earthwards, Johnson & Johnson aims to create a greener company—one product at a time.
Visualizing Citizenship
Supplements to the article “Citizen Chronicles.”
A Smarter Way to Park
In San Francisco, planners are using variable pricing to reduce the congestion, pollution, and aggravation that come with big-city traffic.
Citizen Chronicles
A program in Alberta, Canada, showcases the way that people with disabilities contribute actively to their communities. Includes magazine extras.
Resurrecting Traditional Practices
There has been a renewed interest in traditional Indian spiritual practices by Native and other Americans alike.
Lean In—Together
Gender pay equity is higher in countries where women's involvement in advocacy and organizing efforts is more robust.