Or so says former president Lee Teng-hui in an essay at the Taipei Times: Taiwan, not China, should be the strategic focus of the nation's sustainable development. We should build a new strategy...
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(From WorldChanging) A great article and some innovative ideas posted up at World Changing by Jonathan Greenblatt. I wonder if a Social enterprise Corps could be part of an effort to establish a...
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(Picture from the UN) While most everyone in the field of social entrepreneurship and interenational development seems high on the benefits of microfinance, there are other views. I stumbled across...
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by mstandaert on July 29, 2006
I spy with my little eye ... Bono? Blair? Gore? Murdoch? All in my backyard this weekend. They will all be staying at Spanish Bay in the corporate-town, gated-community (you can't drive through...
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(Image from the World Bank) A roundup of clean technology and alternative energy news for late on this Friday ... *World Bank to promote clean brick technologies in India. *EU threatens legal action...
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by on July 28, 2006
(Picture from Duke University) A good article at Fast Company on Pittsburgh's Bill Strickland: Genius at Work. He mastered the art of social entrepreneurship, applying his potter's hands to...
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by on July 27, 2006
(Picture from Media For Development) I've lately been becoming more interested in how journalistic documentary work and multimedia can help tell the stories of international development, advance...
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(Picture from Microfinance Gateway) I've been trying to figure out how to use these microfinance links that I've been saving up, but haven't come up with an adequate solution. So instead...
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by mstandaert on July 26, 2006
Picture from here) The group Sustainable Business has released a list of 20 companies changing the world for the better with over half of them in the renewable energy sector. The list includes:...
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by on July 25, 2006
(From the New Development Experience) Since we only had two votes in the last round I've cast the deciding vote for who goes on from that round to this one. So the winner is Robert Graham of...
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(Picture from the World Bank) Story from Reuters: "The WTO negotiations are suspended," Indian Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath told journalists. When asked how long the suspension...
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(Photo from the CBC) It's not all about bashing the bad guys here at Audeamus. From Zee News, a story about Reliance Industries becoming the first Indian oil and gas company to be recognized by...
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by mstandaert on July 20, 2006
(Photo of Tian Tian from Declan McCullagh) Well I'm back from a mini vacation in Washington, D.C. and am starting to think about how to take Audeamus to the next level as far as coverage of the...
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(Picture from Canada.com) I came across this story here about InsideArt Cooperative, a Canadian social enterprise that is trying to attempt reform of current and former prison inmates by giving them...
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by mstandaert on July 19, 2006
(Pic from Amerinfo) CSR Wire has news that fourteen major investment companies have lanched a report on SRI for the UN's Environment Programme Finance Initiative. The report, entitled "Show...
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Online software demonstrations are a very effective way to show customers how to use a product's features and functionality. futureLab, a Swiss company, discovered the power of online software...
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(Photo from Business Today Eqypt) Cilantro, which is bracing for the launch of Starbucks in Egypt, has already made inroads as a socially conscious social enterprise. Despite his ultra-low profile,...
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by on July 12, 2006
(Photo from The Newspaper Tree) Now this is a mouthful: Duke University Enterprising Leadership Incubator Social Entrepreneurship fellowship. It seems like a great fellowship though. Check in here to...
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(Photo from CNN.com) I'll be away for the next week, so posting will be down to the bare minimum. In the meantime, here are a number of stories to keep you're eyes on: *Germany looks to do an...
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by on July 09, 2006
(Photo from the Schawb Foundation) From One World: The Khemka Foundation, the schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship in collaboration with UNDP seek to recognize and award leading Indian social...
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by mstandaert on July 08, 2006
(Picture from here) Food Navigator Europe had this article yesterday about Friends of the Earth took a strategic shot at Tesco's CSR practices ahead of its annual general meeting. Following months...
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(From the announcement of the Volvo Environment Prize) First thing of note today, Publius Pundit's Robert Mayer is reporting from Honduras and from the post we get some comparisons about...
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