Articles by Francisco Noguera
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Tuesday
July 15
2008Guest Post: Maya Nut Trees Make A Comeback in Central America
Guest blogger Karen Bennett is a Research Program Coordinator at the World Resources Institute. Her current work focuses on mainstreaming an ecosystem services approach to assure ecosystems’ capacity to provide humans with needed goods and services. She also provides support to projects in...
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Monday
July 7
2008Join Us for a Panel and Reception to Meet Our New Ventures Country Directors
This will be a very special week for us at WRI as the New Ventures Global team will be in together in Washington. Taking advantage of this opportunity, we would like to invite you to a panel discussion on the landscape for sustainable enterprise growth in emerging economies. Featuring our five...
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Thursday
July 3
2008Before Taking Off, A Sneak at Next Week’s NextBillion.net Content
Although I will miss my first 4th of July weekend living in the United States, I?m thrilled to be able to join my country?s own national celebration this weekend. I?m sitting right now at a gate at Dulles waiting for my flight to Bogota to start boarding, and I cannot wait to get over...
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Tuesday
July 1
2008Roundup: Expo Zaragoza ’08 and Other Reasons to Join the Water Conversation
If there was ever a good summer to be in Spain, 2008 was it. Not only because of the great celebrations that surely followed Torres’ match-winning goal last Sunday, but also because of the remarkable Expo Zaragoza 08. Titled “Water and Sustainable Development", the Expo will...
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Thursday
June 26
2008Job: Interns/ Volunteers for the Question Box Project
Rose Shuman, founder of Open Mind and the innovative Question Box project, shared with us?the following?work opportunity. Please read on if you are interested in working with the venture that is?making the ’Digital Alladin’s Lamp’ a reality.?Position: Interns/...
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Monday
June 16
2008?Harnessing the World?s Untapped Talent through Responsible Outsourcing?: An interview with Le
This second part of my conversation with Leila Chirayath covers her vision Samasource,?its business model and the pilot project currently under way in Kenya. Make sure to read the first part of this interview to have thorough vision of Leila’s background and the beginnings of Samasource....
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Thursday
June 12
2008?Harnessing the World?s Untapped Talent through Responsible Outsourcing?: An interview with Le
I recently had the pleasure of spending some time speaking to Leila Chirayath, founder and CEO of Samasource (previously Market for Change), an organization that promotes socially responsible outsourcing to fight?"the waste of talent” around the world. This first part covers...
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Wednesday
June 4
2008“Fixing Failed States” and “Enlightened Self Interest”
A dear friend recently brought up an interesting point when commenting a book we had both read about Afghanistan. She pointed out to me, with some disappointment, a passage that read “the reconstruction of this country has more to do with the fear of the west than with solidarity to our...
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