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Here's an update on books and resources in the fields of social entrepreneurship and international development. Prior 'Great Reads' can be found here and here. If you have suggestions for other books, please leave your suggestion in the comments section.

Your reads for this week ...

*The fourth edition of The Conscious Consumer: Promoting Economic Justice Through Fair Trade has been published by the Fair Trade Resource Network.

*Fieldstone Alliance has two books coming soon worth a look, the Creative Community Builder's Handbook and the Funder's Guide to Advocacy.

*At the TSO Online Bookshop, The CSR Competency Framework Introductory Pack is available.

*CSR Europe's French National Partners IMS-Entreprendre pour la Cité and ORSE have published a guidebook that summarises a year of discussion in a working group that brought together experts from businesses, NGOs, trade unions and other CSR actors. More information here.

In other random news of note ...

*A reader notified us of this great resource called Origo News. They also have a newsletter available, which I've just subscribed to.

*The Worldwatch Institute, in partnership with the Blue Moon Fund, has launced something called Eye on Earth, an information service highlighting the connections between human activities and the natural world.

*Construction begins on world's largest solar power plant-to-be in Portugal.

*Will Sweden be able to give up oil by 2020?

*BusinessWire and CSRWire team up to provide archived news on Corporate Social Responsibility stories.

*World Cup fever and social enterprise join forces on the streets of London.

*From the University of Birmingham, a paper on The Economic and Social Impact of Drought on the Rural Poor: The Case of Pakistan (in pdf).