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Solar, drones, food: The top sustainability breakthroughs of 2014
‘Tis the season for year-end reflection. After all, what better way to celebrate the progress we’ve made and to begin envisioning what’s yet to come? The convergence of technologies — and of people from different sectors — is enabling and accelerating systemic...
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App Aims to Broaden the ‘eEcosphere’ for Consumers and Business
Can millennials and social networking really lead us to a sustainable future? One startup is betting its business model on “yes.” eEcosphere aims to help users discover, adopt and share actionable ideas to build a more sustainable lifestyle — providing personally...
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A Life Worth Living
Hello Fellow Humans, I've been thinking (yes, again!) and I've decided that if I think I have a good idea, well... I should share it. How else will I find out if it's got traction? It's to do with our whole complex organization around life and business, business and...
Cracking the Corporate-Social Enterprise Nut at SoCap: Lessons from Unilever, GE and Google
How can the social enterprise sector navigate the challenges of working with global corporations? That was the challenge set forth for discussion by I-DEV International at SoCap 2013 with I-DEV Director and Partner Patricia Chin-Sweeney opening the panel and...
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Graphene Supercapacitors
The UCLA researchers have developed a groundbreaking technique that uses a DVD burner to fabricate micro-scale graphene-based supercapacitors — devices that can charge and discharge a hundred to a thousand times faster than standard batteries. These...
Social Entrepreneurs Create Two Amazingly Simple Water Carriers
Two social entrepreneurs have recently introduced simple, yet astoundingly effective systems that can be used by women living in developing countries to collect and carry clean water. Many women and children living in water-stressed African regions are forced to...
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How-To Start Your Social Change Career
Social entrepreneurs are made, not born. Starting a social change career is a do-it-yourself activity. Before we can be status quo disruptors, we need to learn to be disruptive forces in our own lives. "You have to start your career thinking about who you want to be...
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Why Green Energy Tax Cuts?
Of course, when asked by a progressive, it means: why tax cuts instead of direct subsidies, mandates, carbon taxes, etc.? When asked by a conservative or libertarian, it means why incentivize alternative energy at all? There are several good reasons to support supply...
Sustainability-Minded Investing Makes Dollars and Sense
This article offers two opinions by R. Paul Herman of the HIP Investor and Gerry Sullivan of the Vice Fund on the pros and cons of investing sustainably. Pro: Enhance Returns, Reduce Risks by R. Paul Herman, HIP Investor Can you make bigger profits and build a better...
Measuring Human Impact + Profit: The New Fundamentals of Investing
You feel it – your portfolio can be a tool for good. But how do you measure it? How can you quantify the human, social and environmental impacts of your portfolio – cash, fixed income, equities, venture investing, commodities – and allocate more dollars to sustainable...
National Study: Cracking the Cynicism Code
Just back from a great week at the Sustainable Brands conference in Monterey, CA. Wanted to quickly share the buzz of a new national study that we just did in partnership with the Shelton Group as part of their ongoing ‘EcoPulse’ research. In short, we gave the...
Good-will hunting for big brands
San Diego, California - Washing us clean of branding design challenges, the day kicks off with Marc Mathieu of Unilever who does a fine job of introducing us to the players of the day. We move onto scaling the stark face of climbing with Ed Viesturs, a professional...
Measuring our success and standard of living – it’s not only about the money we make!
There was a sign in Albert Einstein's office at Princeton which said: "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." With our singular focus on money in our global culture, many carry the belief that simply "more money"...
“Social Capital Markets Conference 2010: The Evolution of Money and Meaning” for Green Money Journal
"Social Capital Markets Conference 2010: The Evolution of Money and Meaning" The very existence of the Social Capital Markets conference, known as SOCAP, says it all - over 1,300 vibrant, excited, inspired, brilliant leaders - philanthropists, social entrepreneurs,...
A Thought Leader’s Guide to Sustainability
Noble Profit provides a look at the thought leaders of innovation and investment focused on the triple bottom line. Here we highlight different companies to show their focus and impact on shifting our economy and our world though disruptive innovation. Some of the...
What is Green IT?
Green IT is the practice of using information technology procedures, products and services in an environmentally responsible manner. Green IT goes beyond greener web hosting. It means that anything related to computing – from designing, manufacturing, using and...
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