Conducive Magazine occasionally features profiles of public thinkers, policy researchers, practitioners, academics, or community workers doing worthy, but possibly unpublicized work. A brain drain, where the best scientists leave their home countries, is a problem for many Latin American, African and Asian countries. Claudio Fernández returned to Argentina in 2006 with a clear goal in [...]

One day you get a phone call/e-mail from a passionate member who wants to volunteer. Maybe they’re in between jobs, in school or taking some time off. Whatever the reason, they have something to contribute and have chosen your organization as a place they would like to work for free. What could be better? By [...]

In Renting Lacy: A Story of America’s Prostituted Children, former U.S. Representative and founder of Shared Hope International, Linda Smith, exposes the truth of child trafficking and forced prostitution in the United States. Using a novel-style approach, the author presents the lives and experiences of prostituted children whose stories are based upon true events. The [...]

The production and consumption of bottled water contributes to waste, pollution, toxins, and the bottled water industry’s interest in controlling our water resources. As a result of these negative impacts, many people have vowed to stop buying bottled water. If you have successfully ditched bottled water, and want to stay involved in the anti-bottled water [...]

There are many ways of coping with the loss of a loved one. For Suresh Unni, solace is found in sharing his brother’s experience with depression and eventual demise from suicide. Through his work as a clinical social worker and therapist and participation on the board of directors of the Asian American Suicide Prevention Initiative, [...]

While many may think about oil when it comes to climate change, the real struggle could be coal. Coal is used for half the nation’s electricity, which is the U.S.’s largest source of carbon dioxide emissions. Scientists warn that the continued use of so much coal could put us on the path to runaway warming, [...]

Ever wonder where bottled water comes from? Or the effect the bottles have on society and the environment? Americans buy 29 billion bottles of single-serve water a year, making the bottled water industry an $11.5 billion business in 2007. And the industry is using that money to further water privatization.

HollabackNYC started in 2005 the way a lot of good revolutions must begin – as conversations with friends over a couple of drinks. The seven of us commiserated over being whistled at, cat-called, and propositioned, with each story earning a chorus of “uggg” “ewww” and “gross!”

We hear about famous cases like 43 year old director, Roman Polanski sexually assaulting 13 year old Samantha Geimer, but what about the young girls who have fought back?  The youth group Global Girls in Chicago working with the organization Chain of Change, triumphed with their video piece When TOMS Attack. “TOMS” are the Thirsty [...]

Jeremy Leggett has undergone quite a few large career changes, from oil industry consultant to Greenpeace scientist to solar entrepreneur. A geologist by training, he worked with the oil industry until his studies brought him face-to-face with the growing evidence of global warming. Within an industry refusing to change, Leggett moved to Greenpeace and was [...]

The effects of climate change are not coming, they are here. For over a decade villages in northwest Alaska have been watching their coastlines erode away, as the warming climate reduces permafrost and the formation of sea ice that protects and maintains their shores. Many of the villages are in low-lying coastal areas near freshwater [...]

Around the country food banks are experiencing food shortages. Meanwhile fruit trees across U.S. neighborhoods go unpicked. The people at Portland Free Tree Project found a way to easily clean up their neighborhood by giving excess fruit to those who can use the fresh organic produce. They show us how we can clean up our [...]