Highlights
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...
In Focus
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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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...
Sectors
The Solar Vector circa 2013
EGW consistently seeks to remind readers that metrics that refer to “single points in time”– scalar numbers– are important in taking the temperature of the energy industries, but alone they are misleading. Knowing how that “temperature” changes over time is a more...
et the Photovoltaic Battle Begin
MIT Technology Review recently published a summary article that brings new light to the use of an age old material in bringing down the cost of solar cells significantly. Perovskites are a plentiful mineral that have been interesting to material scientists in the...
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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,...
Feature
Loaning Your Money for Impact Can Also Generate Income
22nd in a series of excerpts from the book The HIP Investor (John Wiley & Sons, 2010). See other articles in the series here. Fixed income investments play an important role in investment portfolios, generating regular income with reduced risk as compared to...
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...
GreenBiz Brings Tech, Sustainability Execs to VERGE Sao Paulo
GreenBiz Group will bring its acclaimed global event series, VERGE, to São Paulo, Brazil, November 12-13, the final stop on its three-continent 2013 schedule. VERGE focuses on the intersection of technology and sustainability – in particular, the convergence of...
How-To Ready Yourself To Have A Huge Impact
If you want a career with huge social impact, develop your interpersonal skills, take stock of your material life needs, and tune-up your self-awareness. Social and economic justice work unquestionably is an enriching personal adventure, an elixir which gives meaning...
How-To Change The World With Finances
Money is the power to support the social and economic justice work you want done, but can't do yourself. Whether a cash donation or a social impact investment, money validates, endorses and shouts tangibly and loudly: I believe in your mission! I believe in your...
Joel Makower on VERGE | GreenBiz Vol 2
The convergence of technology is transforming business and society by helping us achieve what sustainability is all about - radical efficiency on a moment by moment basis. In this video interview Joel Makower, executive editor of GreenBiz, talks about how data plays a...
Sustainia 100 and The Politics of Positivity
Despite the doom and gloom of the mainstream media narrative around sustainability, there is more positive activity — and business opportunity — than is typically reported. If you’re curious what an oasis of practical solutions in a desert of dreary projections might...
Mission Markets $1.5 million raise to help sustainable companies grow
Mission Markets, Inc. announced May 23 that that have closed a $1.5 million Series A2 funding round, which brings the company’s total funding to approximately $3 million. Social entrepreneur James Lee Sorenson provided the largest investment in the round and will join...
VERGE Accelerate: A Hopeful Future in Two and a Half Minutes
Never in my life had I been so nervous about another person’s presentation. In this case, other people’s presentations — plural. Sweaty-palms nervous, yes, because supporting these 15 VERGE Accelerate competitors has been my responsibility. Nervous, even more so,...
AllSteel, all American, all good
Stillwater, MN - Architecture & Design AJ Paron-Wildes, A+D manager at Allsteel, has a unique signature in the way she does things--she rallies the forces with her bubbly infectious personality. Intimately knowledgable about the mechanisms of the company's...
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