We're getting all bookish here at Audeamus. If I do see any new and innovative nonprofits supporting writers and literary ventures I tend to point them out. I received a press release about Dzanc...
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Picture from Old Books) A roundup of books and resources for your Sunday. See back compilations in the Books and Resources section of Audeamus. From the World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group...
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by on September 23, 2006
Sorry for the massive linking lately without much commentary. I'm trying to find a bit more time to devote to this blog and wider coverage of the topics we look at here. One possibility is an...
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by mstandaert on September 22, 2006
(Photo from sd3) The Global Reporting Initiative ... that's the question of the day over at Social Funds, as Canadian SIO lines up for amending the Canada Business Corporations Act to mandate...
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(Photo from Sullivan County) An interesting piece on the plight of Islamic charities after 9/11 in the latest issue of ColorLines, via Newsdesk. I wasn't aware that of the six major Muslim...
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(Photo from CNN) The magazine, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, has a full issue devoted to China's environmental challenges and solutions for anyone interested. All the files are in pdf....
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(Photo from Harvesting Clean Energy) Here's an odd story from Reuters today about objections to the World Bank providing funding for alternative energy. I'm not so versed on the interplay...
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(Photo from Purdue University) From Purdue University: Purdue Research Foundation has licensed a technology to Bio Processing Technology Inc. for the development of a new environmentally friendly...
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by on September 15, 2006
(Picture from Namaste Direct) I haven't done this for a while, mainly since we hardly ever seem to get people voting on the social entrepreneurs highlighted here. The purpose of these...
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(Cartoon from the World Bank) I haven't been able to fully read all the pieces that have been coming out about critics of the World Bank's anti-corruption stances, but thought I'd include...
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(Photo from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs) The Private Sector Development Blog points us today to this story from Microcapital about independent research firm Celent's prediction that the...
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by mstandaert on September 11, 2006
(Cartoon via Mickey vs. Air Pirates) This story comes from The Standard, a business newspaper out of China, about a report released over the weekend by Hong Kong-based Students and Scholars Against...
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A story just in from the Houston Chronicle's South America Bureau by John Otis ... Although the southern jungles of Colombia are ground zero for the war against Marxist guerrillas and cocaine...
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(Picture from Jeff Balin's consulting site) A quick roundup of some social enterprise news for today. I'm still unpacking from my move to Palo Alto, so not as much time for full posting as...
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by on September 09, 2006
You can watch the full day of events or just an hour of your choice of the Dropping Knowledge "Table of Free Voices" event from Berlin today. The event saw 112 influential people from around...
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An interesting story at WorldWatch on China's investment of about $100 million US in developing methane gas hydrate, or "combustible ice" as an energy source. There are concerns about...
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(Cartoon from Arthur's Amphibians) I've been thinking about this question for a while now: Why couldn't China jump straight into new forms of alternative, sustainable energy technology...
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Filed in archive by mstandaert on September 07, 2006
I'm in the process of moving here, so not much time to post. I do keep getting a lot of news coming into the inbox though, so in order to feed the beast, here are a few items of note......
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A Book review of mine about Bjorn Lomborg's How to Spend $50 Billion to Make the World a Better Place is up at In The Fray: While Lomborg's instinct to create order of the chaos makes sense,...
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Innovations in Emerging Markets points out this story from the Economist about bio-fuels becoming more popular in Southeast Asia. The above picture is one I took of a bio-gas generator in rural Sri...
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(From Millennium Development Goals) A story here on how the British government may suspend development work in northwestern Nepal because of Maoist violence there: The British government has said it...
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(From StreetSoccer.org) The Homeless World Cup is right around the corner, kicking off in Capetown, South Africa on September 23rd. The event features teams from 48 countries, aiming to "kick off...
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