This post is part of The Edmonton Do Gooder Project, a series of profiles on Edmonton folks doing good in creative ways. This year’s Do Gooders were identified through a people’s choice-style process as part of The Good 100 Experiment in June of 2013, an event co-hosted by The Savvy Do Gooder and The Local [...]
This post is part of The Edmonton Do Gooder Project, a series of profiles on Edmonton folks doing good in creative ways. This year’s Do Gooders were identified through a people’s choice-style process as part of The Good 100 Experiment in June of 2013, an event co-hosted by The Savvy Do Gooder and The Local [...]
This post is part of The Edmonton Do Gooder Project, a series of profiles on Edmonton folks doing good in creative ways. This year's Do Gooders were identified through a people's choice-style process as part of The Good 100 Experiment in June of 2013, an event co-hosted by The Savvy Do Gooder and The Local [...]
This post is part of The Edmonton Do Gooder Project, a series of profiles on Edmonton folks doing good in creative ways. This year's Do Gooders were identified through a people's choice-style process as part of The Good 100 Experiment in June of 2013, an event co-hosted by The Savvy Do Gooder and The Local [...]
Should he be afraid? In the wake of the Boston marathon bombings, a lot of people asked how anyone can bring children into today's world; a world where such atrocities are possible. The most interesting thing about this line of questioning is that it assumes 2 things. First, that today's world is somehow [...]
In high school, I was a good student at an academically-focused school, and it was generally expected that girls 'like me' went to university. So I went. It did not go well. I nearly flunked out, and was miserable for a year. It took a near breakdown and months of therapy to realize that my [...]
Why can't we disagree constructively? It seems pretty reasonable that, especially when it comes to trying to change the world, it's ideal for lively debate and discussion to be welcome in pursuit of the best decisions. If we all agree all the time and no one ever presents a dissenting opinion, we won't have much [...]
People who have creative ideas for making the world a better place often end up working, to some degree, in isolation. Bloggers, small businesspeople, charity workers, artists, and other changemakers often make their way in the world against the grain, fighting the status quo; resisting the path of least resistance. It can get pretty lonely, [...]
As you know, this blog has been taken over for the past several weeks by a series of profiles on great people from the Edmonton area. It's been very well received, and is definitely something I'll consider doing again next year with a new class of do gooders. Getting to interview these folks was a [...]
This post is part of The Edmonton Do Gooder Project, a series of profiles on Edmonton folks doing good in creative ways. 1. What is the good result you are hoping to create? I'm trying to shine a light on some of Edmonton's untold stories. That means meeting with and publishing the stories of people [...]