Social Innovation Camp 0
Social Innovation Camp is nigh, and I have yet to come up with a single suitable idea to submit. The trouble with most of my ideas is that they don’t require the internet. In fact, I’m having trouble thinking of anything that would benefit from a virtual implementation.
That’s not to say that there aren’t plenty of socially innovative things to be done.
One thing I’ve been thinking about is a “Clean-Up Day.” It’s something I used to do in Anchorage. When the snow melts each spring, heaps of litter suddenly surfaces and the city looks like a dump. So every spring, hundreds (perhaps thousands) of volunteers scour the streets and parks, packing bright orange garbage bags full of rogue cigarette butts, plastic bottles and occasionally other, more novel rubbish (I once found a 2L bottle of K-Y Jelly in a marsh). continue reading »