With so much discontent in America with the ineffectual government, war, fear...you name it, there are the rumblings of positive change. If you listen carefully, the notions of design for change, saving something, social change, environmental awareness, etc, are filtering into mass culture. NOW on PBS is running a social entrepreneurship series. http://www.pbs.org/now/enterprisingideas/blog/2007/06/a_giving_nation.html
(see below for upcoming shows.)