We are becoming increasingly conscientious about our purchasing habits. We want to know who, where, when, what and how the products we buy are being made. By becoming smart consumers we can change the market and encourage sustainable and ethical practices. Because everything we buy or don’t has an effect in our planet in some way, shape, or form however
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“I just really like it when people get along and hug each other” expresses, South Florida blogger and small business owner, Paola Mendez – A warm hearted and briskly cheerful personality. “While growing up my family always stuck close together to help one another in accomplishing goals.” She hopes that by supporting local businesses, through Coral Gables Love, she will
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What Emerge Miami has been doing for the last 9 years inspires us at Our City Thoughts to the core. Creating community through a bike ride that has brought people from all backgrounds together, to advocacy work that directly impacts the citizens of Miami. We join them in celebrating their 100th ride and exposing how much bigger the vision for
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As founder and director of MIAMI SOUP, Carl Hildebrand secured funding from the Knight Foundation in order to award micro-grants for social innovation projects. Carl brought to Miami this unique international funding model which is a non-bureaucratic format for the implementation of change at the local level. Launched on May 1st, 2014 in Soya & Pomodoro’s historic Great Hall, the
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Our City Thoughts met up with the awesome Malik Benjamin, a curator of culture, innovation and commerce. He is also the founder of CreativeMornings Miami. Among the many positive projects he is part of, CreativeMornings is a breakfast lecture series for the creative community. And we basically have loved all the ideas, breakfast treats, and people we have met at CMM. Read
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Ebonie Mukasa – The Challenges and Triumphs of Being a Miami Social Entrepreneur Words & Images: Ilana Berman Social entrepreneurs are the new philanthropists. They are individuals who, through innovative business practices, find solutions to the problems that vex our communities, states, and countries. Founder of CLOAK INC, Ebonie Mukasa, is a social entrepreneur committed to putting the mission before the
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MEENA JAGANNATH joined the Community Justice Project (CJP) in 2012. She is a human rights lawyer and lover of all things creative. Before coming to Miami she worked on women’s rights in Port-au-Prince, Haiti with a Haitian human rights law office there. She brings her human rights experience and passion for supporting community organizing efforts to the poor and immigrant communities in
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University of Miami’s Toppel Career Center looks a little brighter these days. Maybe it’s because of the new building. Or perhaps it’s the smiles of recent graduates glad to be rid of homework. But one new development stands out among the rest: the opening of a permanent exhibition featuring 80—that’s right, 80—artworks by the cartoonist Hugh Macleod. These playful, colorful
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In the heart of Downtown Miami lie seven shipping containers. They typically carry things like canned goods and washing machines. But inside these graffiti decorated containers is something very different: theater. Two and half years ago, Jorge Monje brought an innovative theater concept from Spain to Miami. He envisioned short plays being performed within shipping containers for small audiences. Today,
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By Victoria Edwards MCBC: Maintaining the Bike Scene The rain is pouring on the small clump of bikers entering into Grand Central Park after a 12.5 mile Critical Mass Ride. Dario Gonzalez, one of six co-founders of the Magic City Bicycle Collective (MCBC) is under their repair station tent, talking to a third year college student from North Carolina who
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