Green

Re:char – One Farm’s Trash is Another Farm’s Treasure

Re:char – One Farm’s Trash is Another Farm’s Treasure »

The following post is from the beautifully articulated TBD email by All Day Buffet. Carbon offsets? Cap and trade? As carbon dioxide levels reach a critical tipping point, the human race is scrambling to find solutions...

February 19 2010 / Comments / Read More »
What Nemo Knows About Wind Farms

What Nemo Knows About Wind Farms »

Wind farms are still a relatively new form of sustainable technology. There is still a lot of room for a improvement and a few visionaries over at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena have...

February 18 2010 / Comments / Read More »

Entrepreneurship

Singapore Launches New Youth Social Entrepreneur Program »

Singapore Launches New Youth Social Entrepreneur Program

Singapore International Foundation has been around since 1991 carving out greater community understanding on the western seaboard, but this year marks the first time...

Mar 13 2010 / Comments / Read More »

Have an Awesome Idea? Enter Weekly to Win a $1,000 Grant »

Have an Awesome Idea? Enter Weekly to Win a $1,000 Grant

The following post is from the beautifully articulated TBD email by All Day Buffet. Throughout the decades, one word has lasted to describe the unadulterated...

Mar 10 2010 / Comments / Read More »

What I’ve Learned from the Unreasonable Institute »

What I’ve Learned from the Unreasonable Institute

If you haven’t heard of the Unreasonable Institute, you will. The Unreasonable Institute attracts, incubates, and finances young social entrepreneurs with bold ideas to...

Mar 9 2010 / Comments / Read More »

Your Junk is My Internet »

Your Junk is My Internet

As a follow-up to my last post (an ode to self-reliance), I want to give mad props to Afghan locals and the MIT Bits...

Mar 8 2010 / Comments / Read More »

Microfinance

My Five Pillars of Microfinance »

My Five Pillars of Microfinance

Without fear of calling myself out as a newbie, I’ll admit that this is my first post on Social Earth. However, it’s not my first on microfinance, a topic that I’ve covered in-depth for Main Street Microfinance, ACCION USA’s blog. You should know a couple of...

Mar 5 2010 / Comments / Read More»

Jordan Proves to be the Arab Powerhouse of Microfinance »

Jordan Proves to be the Arab Powerhouse of Microfinance

Jordan might still be coasting on it’s rebirth of economic prosperity brought on by its liberal economic policies – it is now classified as a “lower middle income” country by the World Bank – and it remains a nation that is determined not to leave...

Feb 6 2010 / Comments / Read More»

Global Community Listens to the Voices of Microfinance: Vittana »

Global Community Listens to the Voices of Microfinance: Vittana

Back in August, while I was visiting that Mexican village that is so close to my heart, I spent some time with one of the kids I met when I first went to that place. Adiel was one of the “lucky kids” of the village....

Jan 26 2010 / Comments / Read More»

Edu

Hey High School: Take Your Best Moon Shot »

Hey High School: Take Your Best Moon ShotOne of the greatest challenges of being a teacher is trying to convince your students why they should care about anything that you write on...

Mar 11 2010 / Comments / Read More »
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Africa

The Celebrity Charity Complex

The Celebrity Charity Complex

The Foreign Policy blog recently gave charitable celebrity, Madonna, a chide or two for uprooting villagers in order to build her school in Malawi and I feel obligated to come to her defense....

Feb 22, 2010 / More »

Asia

Singapore Launches New Youth Social Entrepreneur Program

Singapore Launches New Youth Social Entrepreneur Program

Singapore International Foundation has been around since 1991 carving out greater community understanding on the western seaboard, but this year marks the first time they’ve instituted a camp for young, aspiring social entrepreneurs....

Mar 13, 2010 / More »

South America

The Importance of Self-Reliance

The Importance of Self-Reliance

Now we have a problem. On January 12th, 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake rocked the tiny island nation of Haiti. Just a month and a half later, an 8.8 magnitude earthquake ripped through...

Mar 4, 2010 / More »

Europe

The Youth is on Fire

The Youth is on Fire

The United Kingdom has never had the best track record for taking care of its wanes – from public school horror stories to the infamous Green Street Hooligans – they could do better,...

Jan 28, 2010 / More »

Middle East

Your Junk is My Internet

Your Junk is My Internet

As a follow-up to my last post (an ode to self-reliance), I want to give mad props to Afghan locals and the MIT Bits and Atoms lab crew. It took over seven years...

Mar 8, 2010 / More »

North America

Hey High School: Take Your Best Moon Shot

Hey High School: Take Your Best Moon Shot

One of the greatest challenges of being a teacher is trying to convince your students why they should care about anything that you write on the blackboard. You have to bridge the gap...

Mar 11, 2010 / More »

Oceania

Sustainable NYE City #4: Melbourne, Australia

Sustainable NYE City #4: Melbourne, Australia

If you need to stay focused this New Year, Melbourne, Australia is the right place to be to write those edgy resolutions. Why? Because Melbourne has been making some pretty eco-impressive resolutions of...

Dec 28, 2009 / More »

Central America

Sing For Haiti: Global Initiative Calls For Choirs To Join Forces

Sing For Haiti: Global Initiative Calls For Choirs To Join Forces

The zyOzy Foundation announced a global initiative to raise much-needed funds for Haitian relief. Amy C. Wolff, an Indiana University graduate student specializing in non-profit management, zyOzy collegiate advisory partner and song composer, is...

Jan 25, 2010 / More »
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