Archive
- 16: Nat Geo’s Garbage Moguls
- 15: Urban Volunteering: Miami
- 13: Mexican Prison Hosts “Miss Captive” Beauty Pageant
- 12: Sierra Club accepting applications for “Best Internship on Earth”
- 12: Google’s PowerMeter calculates your energy use
- 12: Urban Volunteering: San Francisco
- 11: How to Fund Your Start Up Org
- 10: How Technology Might Save Endangered Species
- 10: How to Dress Green
- 09: 5 Dangerous Places to be a Blogger
- 08: Some thoughts about violence on International Women’s Day
- 07: Quick-n-dirty guide to North Korea
- 04: Urban Volunteering: Calcutta
- 03: How to Apply for the Peace Corps
- 02: Best Buy wants you to recycle electronics
- 01: Photo Essay: Chile After the Quake
- 27: Google’s Person Finder App Helps in Chile Quake Aftermath
- 26: First Person Dispatch: Why I wake up early on Saturdays
- 25: Urban Volunteering: Canadian Cities
- 23: Pit Bull Bigotry: Public Perception and Legislation
- 22: Organizational Profile: SheJumps
- 20: Olympic athletes champion philanthropy
- 19: 10 WWOOFing Opportunities in Ireland
- 18: “Reporter,” documentary about NY Times journo Nick Kristof, debuts tonight
- 17: 6 Inspiring TED Talks About the Environment
- 17: Chile inaugurates Museum of Memory & Human Rights
- 16: Matador member plans Spring Break volunteer project in Haiti
- 16: Wild Pouring Out: Western Oregon’s Wolf Sanctuaries
- 15: Photo Essay: The Great American Bike Trip
- 13: Vancouver 2010: The Green Olympics
- 13: First Person Dispatch: Being a Peace Corps Volunteer in Niger
- 12: Is toilet paper the greatest threat to the environment?
- 11: 6 iTunesU pod/videocasts to help you understand the world better
- 10: The Ethics of Porters
- 09: Taking household cleaners to court
- 09: First Person Dispatch: Why we should bring the “Teach English” phenomenon home
- 09: Urban Volunteering: Los Angeles
- 08: Don’t believe in global warming?
- 05: BREAKING NEWS: United States Pushes Partners to Cancel Haiti’s Debt
- 05: #FollowFriday: Essential tweeps to follow for info about #Haiti
- 05: Lakota Sioux facing hard winter- again.
- 04: Urban Volunteering: Melbourne
- 04: Tracing oil profits: Oxfam asks, “Where does all the money go?”
- 03: Photo Essay: Kayaking Dangerous Rapids to Save the Amazon
- 03: 3 Ways to Learn More About Haiti
- 02: 109 Ways to Use Your Frequent Flyer Miles for Good: The Americas Edition
- 02: 5 Things You Can Do to Help Free the Hikers
- 01: 10,000 tents for Haiti
- 01: New Wave of Social Media: Tweeting and Blogging from the Amazon
- 31: Gates Foundation pledges $10 billion to world vaccine project
- 31: Fight leprosy. Fight stigma.
- 30: How to evaluate an organization’s claims
- 29: Cartoon: U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United Decision
- 28: From the Editor: Notes on organizing Matador’s Haiti relief effort
- 28: Helping Haiti: An on the ground report from Mai Alyschild, RN
- 27: 5 Reasons Why Last Week’s Supreme Court Decision Means The End of Democracy As We Know It
- 27: Urban Volunteering: Washington, D.C.
- 26: Sundance debut doc confirms small acts make a big difference
- 26: Matador contributor organizes Haiti fundraiser in Chicago
- 25: #MusicMonday: The Internet’s most inspirational music videos
- 22: Video: Latest Prop. 8 Challenge Inspires Game Show “Whose Marriage Is It?”
- 22: How to Get Disaster Response Training: 5 FREE Resources
- 22: Celebrities Summit Mt. Kilimanjaro for Clean Water
- 21: Chevron appoints new CEO: Will he lead the way in cleaning up the company?
- 21: The Dark Side of the 2010 Olympics
- 20: Haiti Volunteer Project Update: Afternoon 1/20/10
- 20: Urban Volunteering: Buenos Aires
- 18: Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr.
- 16: Haiti Volunteer Project: Morning Update 1/17/10
- 16: Photo Essay: 5 Man-Made Wonders In Danger of Disappearing
- 15: Haiti Volunteer Project: Evening Update 1/15/10
- 15: Port-au-Prince Before the Quake: A Look Inside
- 14: New Years Resolution of 12: The Global Citizen Project
- 14: Haiti Volunteer Project: Evening Update 1/14/10
- 14: Haiti Volunteer Project: Morning Update 1/14/10
- 13: Haiti Volunteer Project: Evening Update, 1/13/10
- 13: Google To Leave China?
- 13: Haiti Earthquake Update: Donations List
- 13: Haiti Volunteer Trip: We Asked, You (All 250+ of You!) Reached Out
- 12: What You Can Do to Help Haiti [UPDATED]
- 11: Sudan peace process in precarious position
- 08: Couple to pay for wedding by recycling cans
- 07: Urban Volunteering: Chicago
- 06: From the Editor: How Twitter helped me care about the Burj
- 06: 21st Century Refugees: Displaced By Climate Change
- 05: Ugandan Minister of Ethics & Integrity to Gays: “Forget about human rights.”
- 04: Celebs plan Kilimanjaro cake walk to raise money for clean water
- 04: Photo Essay: Is there a green lining in the economic cloud?
- 01: From the Editor: “It’s about changing the dream.”
- 29: Photo Essay: The Effects of War in Laos
- 28: Urban Volunteering: London
- 25: Photo Essay: Team 100 Athletic Scholarships Changing Lives for Tanzanian Women
- 22: Photo Essay: The Booming Business of Wildlife Trafficking
- 21: First Person Dispatch: Child Sex Abuse in India [NSFW]
- 18: Bacteria: A New Gasoline Alternative
- 18: St. Thomas By the Numbers
- 17: From the Editor: What’s a writer like me doing at a Marriott with #blogparadise?
- 16: Fighting Deforestation In Copenhagen
- 15: It’s a bad time to be an iceberg.
- 14: Explore Climate Change with Google Earth
- 14: Death Row inmate’s final words: Reason to rethink the death penalty
- 12: Hanukkah can be green, too!
- 10: The Facts About Bottled Water [INFOGRAPHIC]
- 10: How to Make Your Christmas Greener
- 08: Send Stiv Wilson to Explore Plastic Pollution in the Atlantic
- 07: Overboard?: The Environmental & Cultural Impact of Cruises
- 05: How Far Would You Go to Curb Climate Change?
- 04: From the Editor: What We Can Learn From Bhopal
- 03: The Somaly Mam Foundation: Fighting Human Trafficking
- 03: Three Cheers For Sweatshops?
- 03: Travel bloggers leverage Twitter power for holiday charity drives
- 02: Gifts for a Good Cause
- 01: 100 People Arrested, Over Two Tons Of Elephant Ivory Seized
- 01: Higher Taxes For Country Living: A British Proposal
- 01: Flavia Cueva Wins Premio Copan for Sustainable Tourism
- 30: How to Rehab Your Laptop’s Battery
- 27: San Fran Strip Club Puts New Spin on Toys for Tots
- 25: Help Send Anna Brones to Copenhagen
- 24: 50 Visionaries Changing Your World
- 23: What does one page of a UN report cost?
- 21: Will More People Take The Stairs If We Make It More Fun?
- 17: The World’s Air Traffic Over 24 Hours (in 1 minute 12)
- 16: Does a “Make Wealth History” campaign make any sense?
- 11: Japan to Harvest Energy from the Sun Via Solar Space Station
- 11: Spanish Wind Farm Generates Too Much Energy
- 10: A hashtag for honeybees
- 10: Should travel writers care about their environmental impact?
- 09: 10 Ways to Reuse Wine Bottles
- 07: 5 MORE Ways You Can Help Your College Go Green
- 06: 5 Ways You Can Help Your College Go Green
- 05: Is climate change a religion?
- 05: “The only way to save our reefs is to freeze them.”
- 04: If the government won’t help New Orleans, Dave Eggers will.
- 04: Obama, Gates Team Up to Create “World Online Peace Corps”
- 02: NYC elections are tomorrow. Should I rock the vote?
- 01: Brave New Travelers: Beauty & Poverty: Learning to Appreciate
- 01: Brave New Travelers: New Beginnings
- 31: Does Foreign Aid Do More Harm Than Good?
- 29: Sitting Beneath the Buddha with Barbara Bush
- 29: No Impact Week, Day 7: Giving Back
- 28: No Impact Week, Day 6: Water
- 27: Restaurant Critic Wastes Baboon for “Naughty Fun”
- 26: No Impact Week, Day 5: Energy
- 26: Paulo Coelho on Political Correctness
- 24: No Impact Week, Day 4: Food
- 23: No Impact Week, Day 3: Taking on Transportation
- 22: Coke’s Campaign to Set the Travel World A-Twitter
- 22: No Impact Week, Day 2
- 20: Dear Justice of the Peace Bardwell: An Open Letter Against Institutionalized Racism
- 20: Matador’s Abbie Mood Takes the No Impact Week Challenge
- 18: From the Editor: Come, sit around the campfire.
- 15: Climate Change Seen Firsthand
- 13: 15 Creative Uses of Bamboo
- 11: Care about the climate? Got a blog?
- 09: Green to the Extreme?
- 07: If you’re gonna ask for change, can you at least learn to spell?
- 05: First Person Dispatch: Human Countdown in NYC’s Central Park
- 03: Chevron: The Toxic Tour
- 01: U.S. State to Nation GDP Comparison
- 01: Reminder to Australians: National Ride to Work Day is Coming Up!
- 29: Photo Essay: Going Inside Brazil’s Prisons
- 28: Volunteering in Patagonia: It’s All About Land
- 23: A New Recipe for Teen Crime Prevention
- 20: “Amazing Race”? That’s for punks. THIS is an amazing race.
- 18: Man Has Lived 9 Years Without Money—Social Rebel or Simply a Mooch?
- 17: 10 Steps Hotels Can Take to Go Greener
- 16: Will 30 Days on Jet Blue Help a School in Zambia?
- 14: White Privilege – Can You See it?
- 13: Brave New Travelers: One of a Kind Learning Experience
- 13: Brave New Travelers: Be Bigger than the Ignorance
- 13: Brave New Travelers: We are All Humans
- 13: Brave New Travelers: It Was I Who Had Changed
- 13: Brave New Travelers: Seeing the World Differently
- 13: Brave New Travelers: My First Time Away From Home
- 13: Brave New Travelers: Leave Your Assumptions at the Airport
- 13: Opening My Eyes
- 13: Brave New Travelers: Stepping Outside of My Comfort Zone
- 10: Is Holier-Than-Thouism the Biggest Obstacle We Face in Creating Change?
- 09: Mad as Hell Doctors Take Their Tour on the Road
- 08: The Happy Planet Index: Finding Happiness Without Destroying the Earth
- 04: Steal This Idea: Give Away Your Creations
- 02: Wipe Out: World’s Most Vulnerable Coastal Cities
- 01: Chris Jordan Gets Ready to Visit the Pacific Garbage Patch
- 31: Volunteering Opportunities in the Tibetan Community of McLeod Ganj, India
- 27: Spotlight on Social Entrepreneurs: India’s Bamboo House
- 26: Plastic Bans on Uptick Around the World
- 25: First Person Dispatch: Casa de Paz Orphanage, Ensenada, Mexico
- 24: From the Editor: Dream Big!
- 21: La Caminata: Mexico’s Immigrant Immersion Tour
- 20: New Media & Youth Action Conference Planned for New York City
- 19: First Person Dispatch from the Burmese-Thai Border
- 17: No Impact Man: Admirable Experiment or Extreme Environmentalism?
- 16: Steal This Idea!: Rooftop Films
- 13: Man runs 500 miles in effort to end global slavery
- 12: Digital Divide Getting Smaller?
- 12: Choose Africa’s Next Changemakers!
- 11: Guerrilla Gardening, Chicago Style
- 09: Cash for Clunkers, German Style
- 07: ING Says “No” to Kitesurfing in Cornwall
- 05: 7 Common Challenges You Encounter After You Launch Your NGO…
- 04: Laugh Your Way to Social Consciousness
- 03: Five for Friday: July 31 Edition
- 29: 5 Things You Should Know Before Joining the Peace Corps
- 27: Bolivia to Become World Battery Capital?
- 24: Five for Friday: July 24 Edition
- 20: Drinking Craft Beer is Good for the Environment!
- 15: Intolerable Beauty: Chris Jordan Photographs American Mass Consumption
- 13: A “Whites-Only” Pool in 2009?
- 12: Mandela Day Scheduled for July 18
- 10: New York Philharmonic to Perform in Cuba?
- 10: Five for Friday: July 10 Edition
- 08: Arrested Development Focuses on Africa: An Interview
- 08: 4 Ways to Get the Most from Your Charity Dollar
- 07: 4 Questions to Ask Before WWOOFing
- 06: Photo Essay: Saving Indian Street Kids
- 05: Greenhouse Gas Clock Measures Emissions Second by Second
- 03: Five for Friday
- 02: How to Green Your 4th of July Party
- 02: New York City’s Newest Urban Park Opens
- 30: 40 Shocking Facts About Water
- 29: How to Write About Plights Without Falling Prey to “Plight Syndrome”
- 26: First Person Dispatch: Volunteering for Animal Rights in Greece, Part 2
- 25: Money for Clean Energy Innovators
- 24: Togo Abolishes the Death Penalty
- 24: Organizational Profile: What Took You So Long
- 23: Latin America-Based Bloggers Wanted
- 22: First Person Dispatch: Volunteering for Animal Rights in Greece
- 19: Open Debate: Can the Internet Really Solve the World’s Problems?
- 19: Iran’s Tiananmen: 5 Reasons We MUST Support Iranian Citizens on Saturday
- 18: 6 Ways the Western World Can Support Iranian Activists
- 15: Organizational Profile: Journeys Within Our Communities
- 13: Citizen Diplomacy in Iran
- 12: East v. West: Who’s Responsible for World’s CO2?
- 11: Photo Essay: Demonstration in Solidarity with Peru’s Indigenous People
- 11: Panama’s Model Tourism Program
- 09: The Problem with E-Waste
- 08: Shame on Shell: Settlement Reached in Wiwa v. Shell
- 07: BREAKING NEWS: Peaceful Protesters in Peru Attacked, Killed
- 07: Budget Cuts Burn California’s State Parks
- 06: Twitter for a Cause
- 04: Mitsubishi’s Back-up Business Plan
- 04: New York Media is a Soapbox for Big Oil Propaganda
- 03: BREAKING NEWS: What Happened to Wiwa v. Shell?
- 03: How To Free Tibet? Lhasang Tsering Has A Plan
- 02: Arab Golf Courses Threaten Mideast Water Supply
- 01: British Politician Leads Bold International Aid Effort for Palestine
- 30: How to Evaluate Claims About Big Oil
- 29: First Person Dispatch from the Chevron Protest
- 28: Photo Essay: Protest at Chevron’s Annual Shareholder Meeting
- 27: An Open Letter to America
- 27: Prop 8 Prompts Question: What Should America Become?
- 26: Chevron’s Greenwashing Ad Campaign
- 25: Big Week Ahead for Big Oil
- 24: Man Takes World’s First Solar Powered Motorcycle for a Spin
- 21: Polar Bears vs. The Poor?
- 20: First Person Dispatch: Caring for Orphaned Kids in Mexico
- 19: Carbon Footprint of US Junk Mail Equivalent to 480,000 Cars
- 18: Social Change in Colombia
- 18: How to Break the Big Box Habit
- 15: Green TV
- 14: Is Your Computer Killing the Planet?
- 14: 7 Ways to Have Life-Changing Conversations
- 13: Matador Organizational Profile: Collective Lens
- 12: The Story of Stuff: Conscious Consumerism or Anticapitalist Propaganda?
- 12: Are You a Changemaker?
- 11: Six Reasons Why Cities Can Be Sustainable Places
- 10: How To Be Good (Better) Drivers and Cyclists
- 08: Grand Central Gets Greener
- 07: Social Activism with Compounding Interest
- 07: May is National Bike Month in the US
- 06: Ken Saro Wiwa’s Death Was Not in Vain
- 04: “60 Minutes” Exposes Chevron’s Environmental Atrocity in the Amazon
- 04: Creating Community Through Film
- 01: News from Nicaragua
- 30: 20 Quotes to Inspire Change
- 29: NYC’s Underbelly Tour
- 29: What Should Worry You More Than Swine Flu
- 28: Five Expectations to Avoid Before Volunteering Abroad
- 27: “And I would drive 10,000 miles…”
- 25: Are You the Greenest Person on the Planet?
- 24: Saving Turtles in Baja California Sur, Mexico
- 22: 6 Ways to Celebrate Earth Day
- 20: From Elephant Tourism to Elephant Voluntourism
- 18: Plastic Bag Ban: Coming Soon to a City Near You?
- 17: Volunteer Voice: Volunteering as a Springboard for Travel
- 16: “Hispaniola”: Short Film Explores Race in Haiti & the Dominican Republic
- 15: Is There a Statute of Limitations on Our Sins?
- 14: Cameras for Change
- 12: Ausencias – Haunting Images of People “Disappeared” by the Argentinean Dictatorship
- 11: To Pay Ransom or Not to Pay Ransom?
- 09: From the Editor: What I Loved This Week
- 09: After the Quake: Green Rebuilding In Sichuan
- 09: Clowns without Borders
- 08: Revolution– 2.0 Style– in Moldova
- 08: Is Paul McCartney a Hypocrite?
- 06: US Calls for Stricter Tourism Guidelines in Antarctica
- 05: India’s Pink Chaddi Campaign
- 03: Twitter’s #followfriday
- 02: Learn Portuguese & Support Social Change
- 01: Random Things You Didn’t Know You Can Recycle
- 31: What Happens to Our Heroes?
- 29: Isaac Mizrahi’s Salmon Skin Dress
- 28: From the Editor: Can Free Hugs Change the World?
- 27: 4 Things You Can Do for Earth Hour
- 27: Room to Read
- 26: The Trouble with Black Gold: 7 Sins of Oil Production
- 25: Fair Trade for Beginners
- 22: What’s Your Water Footprint?
- 20: The Costs of War
- 19: Introducing the First (Green) Family
- 19: 9 Songs That Spoke of Change
- 19: From the Editor: Ch-ch-changes
- 17: The Increasing Cost Of Volunteering Abroad
- 16: Against Complacency: Some Thoughts About AIG
- 16: Volunteer Voice: Learning More About Sustainable Bolivia
- 14: Michelle Obama Made Me Cry
- 13: New Report: World Still Unprepared For Climate Change
- 13: Meet Some of Brazil’s Changemakers
- 11: 6 Ecological Disasters You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
- 10: Voluntourism 101
- 09: 4 Gates Foundation Projects You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
- 07: Seniors in the Peace Corps: an Interview with Muriel Johnston
- 27: Desertification: The World’s Most Underestimated Environmental Crisis
- 23: Working with the Deaf in Vietnam
- 19: The Favela Tour: Changing Perspectives on the Slums of Rio
- 18: The World’s Most Offensive Landfills
- 12: Purdue University Senior Designs Innovative Housing For Refugee Camps
- 11: Volunteer Voice: 10 Tips for Surviving the Transition
- 05: Finca Bellavista: The World’s First Treehouse Subdivision
- 02: 11 of the World’s Most Interesting Animals on the Verge of Extinction
- 28: Volunteer Voice: Tracking Down a Chance to Give Back
- 20: Home at Papa’s House
- 19: Working with Street Kids in Uruguay
- 13: Interview with Jake de Grazia, Founder of The Carrot Project
- 06: To Be a Kid Again: My First Volunteer Experience Abroad
- 01: Big Brother Mouse: A Book for Every Child in Laos
- 30: For the Children: Thai Mueang Volunteers
- 17: The Most Important Message This Christmas: Buy Fair Trade
- 06: 9 Disappearing Glaciers Worldwide: A Photo Essay
- 01: Travel Blogging for Change
- 14: Save the Waves Coalition
- 06: Roll Your Own Peace Corps (Part 1)
- 02: Hitting the Road… to Sustainability
- 28: Are We Ready to Step Up and Serve Under Obama?
- 10: Exposing the Bi-Partisan Myth of Clean Coal
- 08: 10 Ways the International Community Must Help Africa
- 01: US Set to Lead the World in Solar Power
- 29: A Safe Passage: Volunteering in Guatemala
- 25: The Best Volunteer Opportunities for Divers Worldwide
- 25: A Traveler’s Secret Way To Save Gas Money
- 18: 50 Inspirational Matador Travelers: 41-50
- 07: How to Start a Successful NGO in 10 Steps
- 29: BioTour: Journey Into a Sustainable Future
- 27: 5 Diseases that are Thriving Thanks to Global Warming
- 26: Witness for Peace
- 12: 10 Ways Travelers Can Change The World
- 11: Five Ways to Raise Money at Home for Your Cause Abroad
- 22: Casa do Caminho: Getting Orphans off the Streets
- 15: Top 6 Volunteer Experiences in New Orleans
- 09: 10 Environmental Issues in China You Didn’t Know About
- 02: 10 Volunteer Opportunities For Free Travel
- 13: Seven Best National Parks for Visiting Old Growth Forests
- 02: 10 Shocking Facts About Global Slavery in 2008
- 28: Top 10 Disappearing Natural Wonders
- 21: 10 Precious Animal Species on the Verge of Extinction
- 19: Doctors Without Borders: A Conversation with Kathryn MacLaughlin
- 13: The Peace Corps for Cooks: Volunteer Travel with the Culinary Corps
- 07: A First-Timer’s Guide to WWOOF-ing
- 05: Top 10 Volunteer Opportunities Worldwide
- 17: Cinterandes: Innovating Mobile Medicine in Ecuador
- 17: Sonidos de la Tierra: Saving Children Through Music
- 16: 10 Essential Tips for Visiting Indigenous Peoples
- 13: Nations Less Traveled: Volunteer Opportunities in Africa
- 10: The Insider’s Guide To Teaching English In Asia
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