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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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The Best Foot Forward
Feet are important to discussions of the BOP hypothesis. I?m not talking about feet as in the unit of length, but rather as those awkward appendages connected to your legs. From a base of the pyramid vantage point, which is the best foot forward?I did some thinking about this, and decided...
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In India, Weathermen Are the New Priests
In the United States, faith, along with the rest of American culture, has been industrialized, and is now manufactured and sold in the mega-church, an odd cross between a sports stadium and a big box store. But thankfully, for those of us who can?t find salvation beneath blaring florescent...
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