The Book of Visions An Encyclopaedia of Social Innovations

Contains over five hundred best ideas (schemes, plans, proposals, etc.) from around the world - the visions of leading practitioners, world experts and inspired amateurs - new and imaginative (non-technological) for tackling social problems and improving the quality of life collected by the London Institute of Social Inventions. The Institute, a charity of research and education set up in 1985, is backed by many prominent people in all fields of life whose common goal is to promote social innovations: new social services or new and imaginative solutions to social problems, ideally before they becomes crises.