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I know from personal experience that to launch and grow a social enterprise – even one as modest as my own micro-business school, Aidha – is no small feat. But to build an organization like the eyecare hospital Aravind Eye, or BRAC, which empowers the poor, or Doi Tung, which has become Thailand’s social “incubator”, fostering new businesses … that’s big. That is to fundamentally change the world. 
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Our core investment strategy mandates that rigorous financial measurement criteria be intimately correlated with social, environmental, cultural, behavioral, as well as ethics, morals, and higher human values. Therefore, we provide the sustainable integration between traditional, profit-oriented, investing criteria and impact investing measurements with its social, environmental, and governance (ESG/UN PRI) metrics.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 6, 2013 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Communications is a seemingly constant state of evolution—but often the focus of change is on external communications, public relations and marketing efforts. Internal communications is being impacted by technology at the same rapid pace.
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A third of UK investors (34%) want their savings and investments to help create a more sustainable economy, according to a YouGov survey conducted for National Ethical Investment Week (NEIW).
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Selling investors on a radically new approach to waste disposal, one that serves impoverished regions where garbage heaps are common, is no easy feat. It’s a messy business, rife with health and environmental risks. Obtaining the necessary resources to transform waste disposal, then, requires the utmost resourcefulness. The currencies of reputation, social outcomes, and credit trading can become partial substitutes for capital, creating a basis for relationships and transactions that launch the new model.
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The Guardian website noted that the promise of business-model innovation has long captivated the sustainability field, generating plenty of hype. But all the talk has yet to yield many real business-model changes.
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Investor sentiment is completely different in 2014 than it was a year earlier, he points out. “Last year everyone was talking about Solyndra [a solar company, backed by the US government, that failed]. This year it is all about Solar City [the solar equipment installer that recently listed on the Nasdaq] and Tesla [the electric carmakerowned by PayPal billionaire Elon Musk]. Media sentiment has changed, too, because the business case has become even clearer and more compelling.”
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Join a panel of experts on Thursday 14 November, 1-2pm GMT for a live chat on mainstreaming alternative business models and creating consumer demand for sustainable fashion (Can't make today's #fashion live chat at 1pm GMT?
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In his talk last July at Open Government Melbourne Meetup, Donnie Maclurcan explains why Not for profits will take over For profits and change the game. To relate to Michel’s notion of ‘For benefit’, and the recent post on cooperative accumulation. These are the highlights of the talk:
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Shareable and the Sustainable Economies Law Center have released a fantastic new report surveying the ways in which cities can adopt policies to promote “sharing” in a range of areas -- food, housing, transportation and jobs. The landmark report, “Policies for Shareable Cities: A Sharing Economy Policy Primer for Urban Leaders,” pulls together “scores of innovative, high impact policies that US city governments have put in place to help citizens share resources, co-produce, and create their own jobs.”
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The artist and renewable energy entrepreneur, Olafur Eliasson, discusses his solar lamp project and the connection between art and sustainabilit
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