Archive for 'Community'

Join us – contribute!

Join us – contribute!

The next 12 days hold one of my favorite annual traditions. Each year we look around in the less-obvious places for ideas, organizations and people we believe in. Then, during the 12 days following Christmas and into the New Year, we donate a piece of our profits each day on behalf of each of our clients…

Volunteer Day with Sensible City and The Family Resource Center

Volunteer Day with Sensible City and The Family Resource Center

The team lends a helping hand at the Emma Family Resource Center, shutting down the community garden for the winter.

Asheville Community Values Assessment – an invitation…

Asheville Community Values Assessment – an invitation…

In partnership sith local civic and business leadership, Barrett Values Centre has announced We Are Asheville, a community values assessment intended to inform and empower local problem-solving, decision-making and sustainability through an understanding of our community’s shared values.

Thomas Ugo Ermacora on sustainability, urban planning process, and future

Thomas Ugo Ermacora on sustainability, urban planning process, and future

Clear Village Founder Thomas Ugo Ermacora shares his thoughts on sustainability, lengthy urban planning process, his hope for a human pace in planning through micro-urbanistic interventions and vision of resilient and empowered communities.

Notes from the field… ULS

Notes from the field… ULS

One of our Social Enterprise Clients, Excent Corporation, dedicates the majority of all funding and labor resources to the Magic Wand Foundation (SC Founder Ian Bryan on its Board). This week is the big one – once each year, kids from around the world converge on Disney World for a youth empowerment camp called the Ultimate [...]

Notes from the field… TEDx ED

Notes from the field… TEDx ED

We’re still hunting for our shoes after an extraordinary week in Philadelphia. Before we start posting ISTE recaps, here’s a series of “short reports” from Sensible City’s flagship production of the week: TEDxPhiladelphiaED…

Ology Social – check it out

Ology Social – check it out

Here is a shout to Ology Media from our multimedia crew, and a quick explanation of how Ology Social works. Sign up, or just poke around at http://my.ology.com/

Clear Village: Well-Being Analysis in Kiel, Germany

Clear Village: Well-Being Analysis in Kiel, Germany

Under the header ‘what Kieler want’, the Clear Village team arrived in Gaarden, a district of Kiel in North Germany, to conduct qualitative interviews  for making a well-being analysis of the community and distill solutions to help bring about the future they wish for. Kiel is a City historically dominated by its proximity to the Baltic Sea. [...]

Job Skills? Try World Peace Skills

Job Skills? Try World Peace Skills

THE Journal’s new Editorial Director gets it… The magazine has updated its team, with Therese Mageau stepping in as Editorial Director. In one of her first issues, her opening article on the magazine cover puts the 4C’s into perspective…

Techflash: Seattle’s

Techflash: Seattle’s

Frank Catalano: Having spent a February week at a major technology industry trade show, I was delighted to see key Seattle-area companies well-represented on the Austin exhibit floor. The 450 exhibitors included DreamBox, co-founded by a Microsoft veteran and now backed by Reed Hastings of Netflix;GlobalScholar, run by a former Amazon.com and Drugstore.com executive and recently [...]

Clear Village – Dynamic Dialogues in Helsingborg complete

Clear Village – Dynamic Dialogues in Helsingborg complete

Helsingborg is an atmospheric midsize town situated in the South-West of Sweden, there are traditional- and creative industries, developed infrastructures, public services for young and old, proximity to water and…

Clear Village kicks off Helsingborg Lab

Clear Village kicks off Helsingborg Lab

Today, Clear Village kicks off an exciting new participative design Lab in Sweden, aimed at articulating the future cultural life of its host city, Helsingborg. Led by Clear Village and Artur Moustafa of the Helsingborg City Theatre, participants will gather background information and stimuli which…

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