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Animals and tourism don’t often play well together—at least not responsibly. Even Ringling Bros. Circus retired its elephants after nearly 150 years due to public concerns about treatment. People are becoming more aware, but sometimes …
Giving is good for you. It’s a statement many have heard before, but the concrete benefits of giving are one of those more airy concepts difficult to research. Over the past year though, I’ve seen …
I recently watched a recording of rock legend Bono giving a rousing TED Talk filmed at the 2013 TED conference. The topic, which he framed in the context of a brief ten minute presentation, was …
Knowing which issues are worth spending time solving is one of the things I find perhaps most daunting about volunteering and development work. There is no agreed upon to-do task list on which global issues we …