Highlights
Parity in the workplace for women with Eve Ellis of Morgan Stanley
Eve Ellis, wealth advisor at Morgan Stanley, reveals the value of parity in the workplace in her impactful video interview about the Matterhorn Group. Last summer, Eve was doing research and learned the stunning correlation of how women in leadership contributes to...
In Focus
True Innovation
In 1997, while rummaging through a bin of novelty items in a tiny sidewalk shop in San Francisco’s China Town, I stumbled upon an item that sounded too good to be true. It was a shaving razor made of a self sharpening non-metallic material that was supposed to be good...
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Finding the 84% of Stock Market Value That Most Investors Ignore
The global economy is made up of capital in many forms. Fortune magazine’s recent annual release of the 100 Best Companies to Work For list and the annual Great Place to Work® Conference in April 2015 present opportunities for investors to better understand the...
True Innovation
In 1997, while rummaging through a bin of novelty items in a tiny sidewalk shop in San Francisco’s China Town, I stumbled upon an item that sounded too good to be true. It was a shaving razor made of a self sharpening non-metallic material that was supposed to be good...
Sectors
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...
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How-To Snag A Social Justice Job Interview
Are you a social sector job-seeker? Feeling frozen out of your future change-the-world job? Reluctant to enter the fray? Fear of failure stopping you from a career as a social entrepreneur? Café Impact's latest executive leadership video, How-To Snag A Social Justice...
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How-To Reject Rejection When It’s Personal
In the public square of social change, rejection is intensely personal. If you believe in your mission, and if you are giving it your all, then it's always personal. Let's admit that every dedicated social entrepreneur takes rejection personally! Every change agent...
Opening Pitches from VERGE Accelerate Showcases Innovators
It’s no surprise that this VERGE Accelerate startup pitch competition was the most highly rated keynote session 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 promise...
Matthew Nordan: Using Transparency to Get Around R&D Roadblocks
When looking at sustainability and environmental policies, it's easy to think the worst. "It's easy to get bummed out about ongoing coal plants and U.S. opposition to action on climate change," Matthew Nordan, managing partner of MNL Partners, said to GreenBiz's Shana...
Puma’s rockin’ the cradle
Gotta love the new video by Puma's creative use of animated pieces of old fabrics demonstrating the life cycle their Cradle to Cradle Incycle program. Even their opening "Warning" was a clever guffaw at PETA knowing full well they are in alignment with their animal...
How-To Manage Mission-Related Martyrdom
Every social entrepreneur knows there if is a huge difference between burnout and bummed out. Some days, indeed most days, we in the social sector are grieving over deplorable income inequality, the pathology of poverty, grinding gender discrimination and the talent...
Jeff Mendelsohn, New Leaf Paper, talks smart tax and spend policy | Vol 1
Jeff Mendelsohn's mission has been to pioneer markets to prove that sustainable business is a viable avenue to create profit. This led to starting New Leaf Paper, a 30 million a year privately held paper company that has set the standards for 100% recycled paper in...
Solving for Scarcity
Amongst the many lessons we learn from the school of life is the realization that our present reality only appears to be complex or difficult because we have not yet found the idea to adequately explain what is actually happening. This is a humble attempt to explain...
Taryn Sullivan of Efficiency Exchange on energy apps | Vol 1
The world is getting a little smaller with CEO and mover shaker Taryn Sullivan of Efficiency Exchange (EEx) building applications on site, in China, to help companies analyze and create better supply chains. In her interview, Taryn discusses the reasons and ways EEx...
How-To Justify Your Economic Justice Agenda
Good communications skills change hearts and minds, win over naysayers, convince financial backers and motivate colleagues. In the social sector's unoriginal veneration of business plans and policy prescriptions, it is all too easy to forget that the five Cs of social...
Rockefellers Divest From Fossil Fuels in Favor of Clean Energy, but Is Divestment the Solution?
The Rockefellers, whose name was synonymous with oil in the 19th and 20th centuries, have announced that they will be selling their investments in fossil fuels and reinvesting in clean energy. On Monday, the heirs to the Rockefeller family announced that they will...
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