Jul 17, 2018 In this article, economist Kinley Salmon examines The Future of Work, and lessons from Denmark. Read more
We applaud those people who think differently – because doing things the same way they have always been done won’t get us a world that is any better.
The world is changing rapidly. Just doing the same things the same way they have always been done is not an option.
We need to explore new ways of doing new things. There are many ideas worth exploring, which may help us find us better solutions than those we currently have.
Jul 17, 2018 In this article, economist Kinley Salmon examines The Future of Work, and lessons from Denmark. Read more
Nov 28, 2017 The corporate ethos of past decades may have been take, take, take, but a new breed of social entrepreneurs apparently has more noble aspirations. Read more
May 23, 2017 Ideas can and do change the world," says historian Rutger Bregman, sharing his case for a provocative one: guaranteed basic income. Learn more about the idea's 500-year history and a forgotten modern experiment where it actually worked - and imagine how much energy and talent we would unleash if we got rid of poverty once and for all. Read more
May 10, 2017 As we contemplate the changing nature of life and work, with the increasing contribution of technology, we struggle to understand the place for those in the workforce whose jobs are becoming obsolete, and don’t have the skills for the new jobs. Read more
Jan 21, 2017 In Iceland, teenage smoking, drinking and drug use have been radically cut in the past 20 years. Emma Young finds out how they did it, and why other countries won’t follow suit Read more
Jan 18, 2017
SASHA KRAMER, an ecologist, was having success promoting greater sanitation in Haiti when she lost access to her nonprofit’s only composting site in Port-au-Prince: a dump that was being mismanaged.
Her group, SOIL, provides…
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Dec 08, 2016 Moving to address income inequality on a local level, the City Council in Portland, Ore., voted on Wednesday to impose a surtax on companies whose chief executives earn more than 100 times the median pay of their rank-and-file workers. Read more
Nov 02, 2016 In this article from the New York Times magazine, A Silicon Valley dad decided to test his theories about parenting by turning his yard into a playground where children can take physical risks without supervision. Not all of his neighbors were thrilled. Read more
Oct 12, 2016 Columnist Grant Davidson's commantary on Sport NZ & government funding of sport and recreation in New Zealand is something we agree with here at the Alterno Foundation. Read more
Jul 12, 2016 When someone says it can't be done, or that it is impossible, you should be the first one in line to test it out. Read more
The way a person does one thing is the way they do everything