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The Next Big Hype Work at Home Industry

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Added by odie on August 23, 2009 at 11:47pm — No Comments

An Indian Corporate Initiative that Seeks to Empower Underprivileged Students

HCL Infosystems Limited and Rama Krishna Mission, a well known charitable institution, have joined hands to open a branch of HCL Career Development Centre (HCL CDC) at Ramakrishna Marg, New Delhi. According to HCL, under this initiative students will gain from deep domain expertise of HCL CDC apart from getting affordable IT training program offered by Ramakrishna Mission. HCL CDC will provide students with course material, practical classes, hands on training, communications skills and guest l… Continue

Added by Adite Banerjie on November 12, 2008 at 4:17am — No Comments

The Financial Crisis and the Problem with Consumption-Driven Growth

I came across this great article written by Sunita Narain of Centre for Science and Environment. Please do post your comments and reactions. Thanks. Adite Earlier this year, I called the Union budget myopic (see Down To Earth, March 31, 2008). Let me reiterate why. The [Indian] Union budget did not take into account the fact the world was beginning to face new challenges, all of which were devastating, and related. One, the rising cost of our food—you will recall subsequently prices did go up a… Continue

Added by Adite Banerjie on November 11, 2008 at 3:58am — No Comments

Community Voice Needed - with Feedback: On Working Title on the Book "Sustianopreneurship - Business with a Cause"

Beyond some milestone making events with seismic power, I am about to embark on a journey, roughly to be described as "Conceptual Campaigning" - in order to make the concept of Sustainopreneurship go viral, globally. What has made this possible is 1. The latest book chapter on Sustainopreneurship and 2. As a result, making it possible to publish and get accepted a new Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainopreneurship… Continue

Added by Anders Abrahamsson on October 24, 2008 at 1:00pm — No Comments

New Cause Widgets to share

I have been playing around with creating widgets and along the way I decided to do a few for other organizations that expressed an interest in having me do one for their cause. Please check them out and consider helping to spread the word. To copy and post into your profile, blogs, etc. simply click the "share" link in the lower right hand corner. Then copy and paste the embed code into our website, blog, etc. Alternately, you can select one of the buttons showing the social network you wish to… Continue

Added by Yvette Dubel on October 22, 2008 at 4:44pm — 3 Comments

Hunger in India

A new Report by the IFPRI has analyzed hunger levels in 17 major states across India and found that the "state hunger index" scores range from serious to extremely alarming. Here's a press release of the report findings. The Challenge of Hunger 2008 October 14, 2008 Released today by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in conjunction with Welthungerhilfe (formerly known as German Agro-Action) and the University of California, Riverside, the India State Hunger Index analyzes… Continue

Added by Adite Banerjie on October 15, 2008 at 4:38am — 3 Comments

Innovative Ways of Fighting Global Poverty

CSR is a much-debated topic. While most CSR activities have mostly remained at the level of generating good PR for the corporates, here is an example of American Express' attempts at funding innovative programs that seek to benefit a constituency other than that of the company's core client base. The Members Project of American Express invited social entrepreneurs to submit their innovative projects. Based on votes of American Express card holders [as well as non-card holders]the deserving proj… Continue

Added by Adite Banerjie on October 15, 2008 at 3:31am — 2 Comments

Art, Politics and Alternatives to Protest Art

I know this is primarily an issue related to the U.S. but as the "elected leader" has an impact on international policy/relations I am sharing this here. This connects directly to the issue of social capital I have mentioned in my conversations with Anders and others so on that basis as well, I feel this may be of some interest to members here. I have long been an advocate for end user led innovation, especially in IT. Currently private vendors and a select group of insiders are the only ones p… Continue

Added by Yvette Dubel on October 5, 2008 at 6:44pm — No Comments

Cultural Fusion: Breathing

The first real world aspect is being developed for Jamaica, while the first virtual 3D counterpart is being developed for Second Life until we develop our own platform to manage our galaxy. The virtual space provides a "testing" or lab space for new ways of collaborating to expand the concept of profit to i… Continue

Added by Yvette Dubel on April 20, 2008 at 8:30pm — 2 Comments

INSE Steps Up to the Challenge

INSE (International Network of Social Entrepreneurs) Steps up to the challenge

INSE Founder & Chairman, Christophe Poizat, recently established a strategic alliance with Yvette Dubel, CEO of WebAntiphon (http://Webantiphon.com).

INSE and WebAntiphon have decided to colla

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Added by Yvette Dubel on February 3, 2008 at 8:32pm — No Comments

US and Canada Laptop Program

I just received something about laptops for two:} T-Mobile and One Laptop per Child are offering an opportunity for the next twelve days-give one get one:} For more information:

http://laptopgiving.org/en/give-one-get-one.php

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Added by April Stoor on November 16, 2007 at 12:52am — No Comments

Thistle & Broom rant on 'leveraged' marketing

Way back (as it seems) in 2002 I told friends upon my return from my first trip to Scotland "mark my words, Scotland is about to become hipper than she has been since Victoria sat on the throne" - they thought I was nuts. Here's Western Europe's poorest nation (according to the OECD stats) and how on Earth was it going to become cool? and marketable? Yet I set forth into unknown territories and created the world's first sustainable luxury brand (sustain the planet, sustain the cultural identity,… Continue

Added by Teresa Fritschi on October 30, 2007 at 7:01pm — No Comments

Conversation Kick-Off! Group discussion about Sustainability vs Sustainable Entrepreneurship

Giving response to a feedback I received when I presented the paper on outlining future research on sustainopreneurship - that in fact challenged the very core element of the new conceptual development - the Cause dimension. There was not enough space, time and room to continue the conversation, since it was in the last slot of the third day, and only gave 15 minutes in general after an equal fifteen minute presentation of the paper. So, now I bring it here as a first issue- and community-orient… Continue

Added by Anders Abrahamsson on October 16, 2007 at 11:43pm — No Comments

Introducing iÆREAS Group - Creating a new dot org committed to Sustainopreneurship

A working name of a new organization was introduced in a paper I presented at www.isdrs.org in Västerås, Sweden, in June, 2007 - Association of Enactive Research, Education and Application for Sustainopreneurship.

Since enough publications in the academic, respected and publically trusted research community in enough diverse contexts now have given approval of the conceptual development and the definition, the time has come to form and formalize a new organization to give… Continue

Added by Anders Abrahamsson on September 25, 2007 at 10:52am — 1 Comment

Small update - conceptualizing, researching, grouping

I see that some members found the community by serendipity. I have updated the "disclaimer textbox" with the fact that I got the Master Thesis together in May, 2007, and directly followed the authoring of a research paper for the conference ISDRS 13th. I will not bother you with details and lots of links (that will appear on my main blog some of the days - this blog post will be updated when it happens), more than the merging of these two publications will be published later:

"Sustainop… Continue

Added by Anders Abrahamsson on June 30, 2007 at 7:37pm — No Comments

Hello world!

So - now we have set up a community for Sustainopreneurs. Or at least, we are sandboxing the Ning Platform (www.ning.com) to see if it fits the purposes and supports us who rises to the challenges formulated by the Sustainability Agenda - and to make great businesses out of the world's biggest problems.

Peace,
Anders
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Added by Anders Abrahamsson on March 21, 2007 at 6:54pm — 1 Comment