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More Developments: Fostering a Sustainable Business Climate in Asia
Since covering the lighter side of sustainable enterprise in China last week, I thought it would be helpful to discuss a more practical effort underway to make social and environmental impacts a mainstream consideration among businesses in the quickly developing East Asian region. ASrIA has...
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Part I: Rwanda Finds Hope in Premium Coffee
This Sunday, the New York Times Business section ran a front page article -- Coffee, and Hope, Grow in Rwanda -- on the remarkable story of Gemima Mukashyaka, an orphan of Rwanda?s 1994 genocide, who has returned to her parents former coffee farm and, with the help of USAID and a local...
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Rising Ventures: The Sweet Smell of Success in China’s Rose Industry
More great news about sustainable business trends in China- check out this article on how the country’s organic food exports have surged, increasing at a 50% annual rate. An amazing story related to this development that you should read as you head out for the weekend: Jiangyou Xun Pai...
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Friday Self-Props: Treehugger and Worldchanging
I?m not much for public ego boosting, but a couple newsworthy items regarding the NextBillion.net crew have come up today, and I figured some of y?all would be interested. First, Derek Newberry?s latest post, “TV Hit Proves Sustainability Will ’Win in China’” has been...
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Changemakers Contest – How to Provide Affordable Housing
Changemakers is at it again. Loyal NextBillionites might remember that Changemakers is an innovation-recognition initiative of Ashoka, the award-winning social entrepreneurship incubator. CM runs contests awarding the best entrepreneurs in a given sector ? previous competitions have included...
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The Ghetto Tax
In a report published last month, Matt Fellowes of the centrist Brookings Institution documents a “ghetto tax” paid by lower-income consumers in the United States ? essentially, proof that poor people in underserved areas pay more for basic goods and services. Sound familiar? In...
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TV Hit Proves Sustainability Will “Win in China”
One of China’s most popular programs right now is a reality-show called “Win in China,” a sort of spin-off of the Apprentice model only with minimal shady dealings and fortunately no appearances by Donald Trump. The basic idea is that 108 aspiring entrepreneurs battle to sharpen...
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Cleaning Up The Streets
?Shit business is serious business,? explains Otunba Gadaffi, founder of DMT, a Nigerian based mobile toilet provider.? And he is right?poor sanitation is a major problem in this burgeoning nation of over 130 million, causing an array of preventable diseases like dysentery and cholera.?...
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