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SoCap explores making money into meaning in San Francisco
San Francisco - October 5-9, 2015 you can join a legion of global innovators, investors, foundations, governments, institutions, and social entrepreneurs at Fort Mason in San Francisco. SOCAP (Social Capital Markets) is a world-renowned conference series dedicated to...
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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...
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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...
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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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...
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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How-To Boldly and Bravely Bet On Yourself
To describe itself to itself and to attract new converts, it is common these days for the nonprofit sector to talk in terms of investment - obscuring the legal and legitimate lines between grants and donations versus opportunities to make money by doing good (often...
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How-To Boldly and Bravely Bet On Yourself
To describe itself to itself and to attract new converts, it is common these days for the nonprofit sector to talk in terms of investment - obscuring the legal and legitimate lines between grants and donations versus opportunities to make money by doing good (often...
The Secret of Game-Changing Leadership
Why do some entrepreneurs manage to defy social gravity and thrive, while most go down in flames? How is it possible to attract a truly passionate following through social media in today’s information overwhelmed age? What’s the best way to find security in a flat,...
U.S. Mayors Forge a New Climate for Greener Buildings
The new word from City Hall is coopetition. In a world where metropolises are vying to be seen as climate (or cleantech or green) leaders, some mayors are concluding that they can move further, faster by cooperating as well as competing. It’s a new chapter in the...
How-To Tackle Thankless Social Change Work
Fighting the good fight means big challenges, big ideas, big solutions. In humble contrast, the menial and mind-numbing grunt work required of the social change-maker is tiring and tedious. Accurately and also arrogantly, you know grunt work is below your station,...
GreenBiz Forum 2014 attracts sustainability pioneers to Arizona
OAKLAND, Calif. -- Dozens of the world’s biggest companies have registered to participate in the 2014 GreenBiz Forum, GreenBiz Group’s flagship event for sustainability executives, to be held February 18 to 20 in Phoenix. The Forum brings together sustainability...
How-To Give Your Inner Fundraiser More Currency
This year, a mentor died. A friend moved on. A social enterprise started sinking. Each loss leaves its unique echo of disappointment and the haunting inner voices of recrimination: I wish I had spent more time with my mentor. I wish I had said this, or not said that,...
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...
Adaptation and Resiliency In the Face of Climate Change at VERGE
When looking at the landscape of climate change in the literal sense, we are faced with the advent of severe weather cycles, destructive storms like hurricane like Sandy and rising sea levels threatening to consume vast areas. City and state planners have their work...
How-To Uncover Your Passion and Purpose
Fulfilling, meaningful work doesn't start with a big idea. It starts with a small voice hiding inside you. "One of the first things to do is to identify what really matters to you. Try to be very specific. Make sure you choose a mission you really care about: if you...
GreenBiz Group will Flip the Switch on First Ballroom-size Microgrid
SAN FRANCISCO -- GreenBiz Group will turn the switch on the first-ever ballroom-size microgrid, a functional and replicable system that heralds the future of distributed energy production. Called VERGE Interconnect, the microgrid will be a centerpiece of VERGE San...
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