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.
17/02/2015
All Stories
The Community Entrepreneurs: An interview with Alain de Botton
Alain de Botton is an author and thinker who uses every possible avenue to apply eras from history, art and literature to everyday problems.
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Neighborhood: Sentrum, Bergen, Norway
Nestled between the mountains and the sea in Norway’s southwestern archipelago, Bergen is a tiny town known for artistic collaboration.
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Recipe: Simple Tortilla Española
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.
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The Community Entrepreneurs: The School of Life
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.
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A Creative Escape
Leaving your usual environment and venturing out into nature can often lead to bright ideas and a refreshed imagination.
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Work on Your Shoulders
Some people complain of life sitting on their shoulders, but for others it’s work that provides that pressure.
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The Paper Clip: Original Simplicity
Sometimes perfection doesn’t need improvement. Invented more than a century ago, the paper clip is a bastion for simplicity in design.
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Fusion Businesses
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.
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Colleague Camaraderie
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.
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A Toast to Tradition: An interview with Russ and Daughters
Family. Quality. Service. History. Soul. New York. Community. Few businesses embody these qualities as perfectly as the 101-year-old Russ & Daughters.
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Defining the Entrepreneur
We asked a number of enviable business minds how they define the nature of entrepreneurship.
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A Day in the Life: Helen Rice
After launching a creative agency at age 23 with her now-husband, Josh Nissenboim, Helen Rice is living the entrepreneurial dream.
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Learning to Unlearn
Sometimes opening our eyes to knowledge’s blind spots can reveal fresh solutions to old problems and give us an appreciation for the unknown.
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Recipe: Russ and Daughters’ Potato Latkes
These comforting potato pancakes have traditionally been served during Hanukkah, though latkes have come to represent celebration in all its forms.
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The Science of Scribbling
Doodlers, rejoice! Scrawling stick figures and pyramids in afternoon meetings may actually make us concentrate more on the tasks at hand, not less.
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The Community Entrepreneurs: The Educators
By dreaming up new ways to coach the creative community, these humble scholars are teaching fresh ideas to eager students of all ages.
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The Community Entrepreneurs: The Renters and Lenders
Sharing bikes, swapping homes and lending funds to small businesses: These three companies make a living through temporary transactions.
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The Community Entrepreneurs: The Store Owners
Neighborhood shops don’t just provide goods and services: They can also become valuable support structures within creative communities.
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The Community Entrepreneurs: The Online 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.
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The Community Entrepreneurs: The Food Enthusiasts
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.
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The Community Entrepreneurs: The Do-Gooders
Good business isn’t always about financials and selling products: These social enterprises inspire us to give more to our communities and take less.
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The Community Entrepreneurs: The Makers
Whether they create products with a conscience, revive classic communication or give choice back to consumers, makers can also be social doers.
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Home Tour: The Evergreen Cottage
For this home tour, we look inside a festive house in a cobblestoned corner of Copenhagen.
25/11/2014
Aurora Folklore
The northern lights have awed communities through the eras, and many fantastical theories have been imagined to explain the sky’s shifting glow.
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The Meaning of Light
The daily rise and fall of the sun is one of the few reliable occurrences in our lives.
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A Cup of Goodwill
The Neapolitan custom of caffè sospeso brings a community-minded meaning to “two cups a day.”
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The Hunger Games
Chocolate dominoes, shortbread Jenga and Turkish delight checkers—who says playing with your food shouldn’t be creative?
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Duel Intentions
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.
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Unexpected Pairings
We asked two culinary connoisseurs to tell us about some unusual flavor combinations that have won them over.
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