Highlights
How-To Shut the Hell Up and Change the World
"If you're early in your [social justice] career, just shut the hell up and...and work really, really hard," John Anner, Executive Director of the East Meets West Foundation, tells new social change agents. What in the world is he talking about?!?!? He can't really...
In Focus
Inquiring Minds Want to Know “Why?”
Why do companies with gender diverse boards perform better? As the portfolio manager of a strategy which seeks to benefit from this fact,* I am often asked this question by investors who think there must be one holy grail answer. They even seem ready to boast...
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Dan Crisafulli of Potrero Investment Advisors on impact and policy | Vol 1
Impact investing expert Dan Crisafulli affirms the role of social capital to facilitate critical solutions on behalf of environmental and social challenges we face today. In this video interview, Crisafulli talks about how impact investing provides companies, private...
Insurgent Disrupters
Walter Isaacson’s new book, The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution, offers a computer age grand tour: from the tentative beginnings of the computer age in the 1830s all the way forward to Wikipedia and the Internet....
Sectors
Imagining Sustainability in 2030: Smart Farms to Super Batteries
Sure, 2014 saw its share of forward-thinking business investments and new, collaborative models in sustainability fields ranging from advanced agriculture to renewable energy. The year ahead, too, is already shaping up to be momentous for technologies, new business...
Smarter cities and systemic change: 2015 sustainability predictions
From Google's billion-dollar acquisition of smart energy pioneer Nest to the proliferation of sensors in "smart cities" around the world, 2014 was a big year for innovation in sustainability. All that adds up to massive opportunities at the intersection of business,...
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How To Work Your Social Change Ass Off
Social change requires tenacity, strength of commitment and old-fashioned hard work. Bluntly, you may not be tough enough. If social and economic justice is your chosen career path, you can't avoid hard work. Social change work demands rigor: rigorous thinking to...
Feature
How-To Use Ambiguity to Pioneer Change
Despite crushing student loans and a miserable job market, this Millennial Generation is the most socially conscious, most globally aware and most actively committed to careers of conscience to come along in decades. College students and young professionals are eager...
Kids Organic, Apparel For A Healthy World
Revi Schlessinger, co-founder of Kid's Organic apparel company is not your average entrepreneur mother--she is a mover-shaker woman. Revi's work has taken her into the world of high tech giants to consumer products to the US government. As a consultant with...
How-To Convert Your Convictions Into A Career
Are you seeking fulfillment and happiness in the social change world? At this point in your life, are you called to give back? Ready to change careers and become a social entrepreneur? Only 47% of Americans are satisfied with their jobs, a sizable drop from the 61%...
Imagining Sustainability in 2030: Smart Farms to Super Batteries
Sure, 2014 saw its share of forward-thinking business investments and new, collaborative models in sustainability fields ranging from advanced agriculture to renewable energy. The year ahead, too, is already shaping up to be momentous for technologies, new business...
Empowering Evolution
Progress and peril have been reluctant partners for most of our civilized existence. The unprecedented material progress that we have now become accustomed to, has also passed on the real systemic costs to our people, places and planet. We still have no idea how to...
Smarter cities and systemic change: 2015 sustainability predictions
From Google's billion-dollar acquisition of smart energy pioneer Nest to the proliferation of sensors in "smart cities" around the world, 2014 was a big year for innovation in sustainability. All that adds up to massive opportunities at the intersection of business,...
How-To Educate Yourself For An Impact Career
“There are alternative paths” for reaching your social justice dream job, says change agent Jessamyn Lau. She should know. Her social change career began with dropping out of high school, then moved to enrolling in art school, teaching elementary school in China,...
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...
Second round of VERGE Accelerate pitches keeps energy high
It’s no surprise that this VERGE Accelerate startup pitch competition was one of the most highly rated keynote sessions at our VERGE SF 2014 event in October. Who doesn’t love gaining insight into the innovation surging from the entrepreneurial community and the great...
Christopher Arnold on Chipotle’s on healthy food sourcing
For the first time we are seeing healthy fast food chains, such as Chipotle, rise up in the stock market. In this interview, PR Director Christopher Arnold describes how Chipotle is impacting the growth of organic family farms by making simple purchasing changes--and...
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