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Tom Friedman’s Perfect Column: Patient Capital in Africa
I really like Tom Friedman - I have since high school, when a summer program I attended assigned his book, The Lexus and the Olive Tree. I’ve also seen him sitting in DC cafes, running to catch cabs, and even met him in person at WRI’s 25th Anniversary Dinner. Nice guy. Smart, too....
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Rising Ventures: Envirovision Aims to Move Businesses Beyond Greenwashing
This Investor Feature is based on a recent interview with Yeung Hau Man, founder of Envirovision. Hau Man is dedicating his career to creating sound, standardized sustainability reporting at a time when such reporting is frequently ambiguous, unreliable, and extremely easy to manipulate for the...
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Guest Post: Africa’s ICT Wave Reaches San Francisco Bay
Andrew Mack is a former World Bank official and Principal of AMGlobal Consulting. He previously blogged for NextBillion .net about Rwanda’s IT development and leapfrog technologies, in January 2007. By Andrew Mack About three weeks ago, I sat in a conference hall in San Francisco...
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Grassroots Business Initiative Grows Tall
I attended an all-day workshop at the IFC yesterday on their Grassroots Business Initiative (GBI). A half dozen of the Initiative’s enterprises from Africa, Asia, and Latin America, and 30 or so GBI partners also attended, along with their program staff. The meeting was conducted under...
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2007 Socially Responsible Business Plan Awards
Aram Kang is Program Coordinator for the Sustainable Enterprise Program at WRI.? Originally from Seoul, Korea, Aram holds an MEM from the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University. By Aram Kang This past Friday, April 13th, WRI hosted the William James Foundation?s 4th Annual...
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BiD Challenge Enters its 3rd Year
In Uganda, there is a small business whose model is based on manufacturing and selling products made from indigenous tree bark. The bark can be sustainably collected as this particular species of tree has the property of easily regrowing bark after being stripped bare. The material is...
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Rising Ventures: Hering Instruments Sets the Soundtrack for a Sustainable Future
The word “cool” has many connotations and it seems to be one of those colloquialisms that exists in every culture - “chido” (spelling?) if you’re passing through Mexico, Brazilians use a variety of expressions; “legal” and “ma?a” are two common...
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Rising Ventures Investor Edition: A New Fund Sets the Bar For Sustainable Investment
Could Brazil break the curve on sustainable investing? If Philippe Lisbona, manager of the new Stratus VCIII fund has his way, the country’s investment landscape could look significantly different in the next decade. Philippe’s call waiting kept buzzing incessantly during our recent...
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