
The Community Entrepreneurs: The Connectors
In our special section on Community Entrepreneurs, we focus on makers, store owners, food enthusiasts, do-gooders, educators and online communities.
In our special section on Community Entrepreneurs, we focus on makers, store owners, food enthusiasts, do-gooders, educators and online communities.
Alain de Botton is an author and thinker who uses every possible avenue to apply eras from history, art and literature to everyday problems.
Nestled between the mountains and the sea in Norway’s southwestern archipelago, Bergen is a tiny town known for artistic collaboration.
Also known as a Spanish Omelet, this dish can be prepared the night before and will provide all the nutrients you need to make it through the workday.
The world is full of pseudoscience, bad advice and self-help jargon. Thankfully London’s School of Life has revamped the idea of emotional education.
Leaving your usual environment and venturing out into nature can often lead to bright ideas and a refreshed imagination.
Some people complain of life sitting on their shoulders, but for others it’s work that provides that pressure.
Sometimes perfection doesn’t need improvement. Invented more than a century ago, the paper clip is a bastion for simplicity in design.
Why is it that we always seem to want a stiff drink while doing the laundry? Some bold stores are combining two ideas into one with great success.
It’s not just the work you do in the office that counts: What goes on after hours makes all the difference to productivity and morale in a workplace.
Family. Quality. Service. History. Soul. New York. Community. Few businesses embody these qualities as perfectly as the 101-year-old Russ & Daughters.
We asked a number of enviable business minds how they define the nature of entrepreneurship.
After launching a creative agency at age 23 with her now-husband, Josh Nissenboim, Helen Rice is living the entrepreneurial dream.
Sometimes opening our eyes to knowledge’s blind spots can reveal fresh solutions to old problems and give us an appreciation for the unknown.
These comforting potato pancakes have traditionally been served during Hanukkah, though latkes have come to represent celebration in all its forms.
Doodlers, rejoice! Scrawling stick figures and pyramids in afternoon meetings may actually make us concentrate more on the tasks at hand, not less.
By dreaming up new ways to coach the creative community, these humble scholars are teaching fresh ideas to eager students of all ages.
Sharing bikes, swapping homes and lending funds to small businesses: These three companies make a living through temporary transactions.
Neighborhood shops don’t just provide goods and services: They can also become valuable support structures within creative communities.
With so many people turning to the internet for a modern sense of community, the challenge becomes connecting those users in real life too.
Food can be used to enrich, strengthen and connect people of all societies and cultures: All you need is a passion for tasty morsels and tradition.
Good business isn’t always about financials and selling products: These social enterprises inspire us to give more to our communities and take less.
Whether they create products with a conscience, revive classic communication or give choice back to consumers, makers can also be social doers.
For this home tour, we look inside a festive house in a cobblestoned corner of Copenhagen.
The northern lights have awed communities through the eras, and many fantastical theories have been imagined to explain the sky’s shifting glow.
The daily rise and fall of the sun is one of the few reliable occurrences in our lives.
The Neapolitan custom of caffè sospeso brings a community-minded meaning to “two cups a day.”
Chocolate dominoes, shortbread Jenga and Turkish delight checkers—who says playing with your food shouldn’t be creative?
With rain beating against our windows, going inside for some physical recreation may be safer than slipping on a sidewalk, even if it involves swords.
We asked two culinary connoisseurs to tell us about some unusual flavor combinations that have won them over.
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