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Ashoka Changemakers: Winners of the Sustainable Urban Housing Competition
Ashoka is in the final stage of its Sustainable Urban Housing Competition. With support from the Rockefeller Foundation, Ashoka has challenged innovators to orchestrate sustainable, safe, transferable and affordable housing solutions for any landscape or culture. Earlier this week, finalists were selected each pocketing $10,000 to seed their plans.
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Environmental Entrepreneurs: Mexico’s ‘Échale a Tu Casa’ Builds Green Houses
Mexico needs 9 million new homes in the next 20 years to keep up with demographic demand. Yet construction of millions of houses could have significant negative environmental impact. ?chale lowers the environmental impacts of its homes by including features like rainwater harvesting, energy-efficient stoves and composting; all at a low price.
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu to Give Keynote Address at Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship
OXFORD, England, March 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Skoll World Forum is the leading international platform for accelerating entrepreneurial approaches and innovative solutions to the world’s most pressing social issues. The theme for the 2011 Forum is ’Large Scale Change - ecosystems, networks and collaborative action.’ The programme covers a wide variety of complex global issues such as water, energy, food security, climate change, peace and security, social equity and eme...
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Hart: Next-Gen BoP Requires a Green Leap
Anyone who has read his work or had the pleasure of speaking with Stuart Hart knows he has clear views on what is green and what it isn’t. Hart co-edited the book, Next Generation Business Strategies for the Base of the Pyramid and contributed a chapter, "Taking the Green Leap to the Base of the Pyramid." He explains what clean tech really means.
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Sa?d Business School: US Marines Call on Social Entrepreneur in Afghanistan
When Connie Duckworth received a call from the office of Commanding General of the Marines First Expeditionary Force operating in Afghanistan, she was surprised to say the least. Ms Duckworth is a social entrepreneur working in poor rural communities in Afghanistan well beyond the theatre of war. The Marines, however, had heard about her approach to developing sustainable economic growth within these communities and wanted to learn more. Ms Duckworth’s social venture ARZU has been w...
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Friday Roundup – 3/18/11: Failure IS An Option, but Don’t Fail At Learning
Failure grown into meme that has built business guru empires and flooded the speaker/seminar circuit. Adam Richardson, a creative director at global innovation firm frog design, advises that we shouldn’t "fetishize" failure, but learn from it. What has our sector learned from our failures and how are we applying them to future projects?
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ViewChange Video of the Week: Profits from Plastic in Ghana
Plastic waste is an enormous problem in the West African country Ghana. Everywhere you look, the streets are littered with empty water bags and bottles. This video tells the story of how a Dutch-Ghanaian recycling company, Cyclus, has found a way to create a cleaner environment, while creating hundreds of jobs and generating profit from waste.
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’Active Incubator Models’ and Management for Social Enterprises
The business model for the Asian Social Enterprise Incubator (ASEI), a Manila-based organization, is based on the assumption that what many social enterprises require is not necessarily access to office space and back-office services. Rather, they need a market-oriented management to direct the strategy and run the organization like a business.
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