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October 25, 2011, 1 Comment

“Where would you go to learn how to be a farmer?” local author, Patrick Rothfuss asks. “This is where you would go!” He is standing in the middle of an [...]

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TerraCycle Founder On The Up-Cycling Revolution [Video]

October 13, 2011, No comments

I had the chance to interview Albe Zakes, the VP of Media for Terracycle, and a founding member. This is such a great interview as Albe tells how Terr ...

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How Social Entrepreneurs Are Combating HIV

October 10, 2011, 1 Comment

I had the opportunity to interview Elkhair Balla (right), one of the co-founders of BCondoms. On the program we discussed how the idea of BCondoms cam ...

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Project Survival Media: Unleashing solutions for survival

September 23, 2011, No comments

Project Survival Media (PSM) is a global youth journalism network dedicated to broadcasting stories of survival and ingenuity in the face of climate c ...

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    CouchSurfing Becomes a Benefit Corporation
    September 8, 2011, 2 Comments

    After four years of unsuccessfully petitioning for 501c3 non-profit status, co-founder and CEO, Casey Fenton, has announced that the popular online traveler’s community, CouchSurfing, will move to embrace the B [...]

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    Two Must-See Sex Trafficking Specials
    June 27, 2011, No comments

    This month marks the premiere of two very important sex-trafficking documentaries, an issue that consistently struggles to remain in the spotlight. On Sunday, CNN’s Freedom Project aired the special “Nepal’s [...]

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    IDEX Fellowship India
    June 3, 2011, No comments

    Start Some Good is a social venture that connects social entrepreneurs with the financial and intellectual capital they need to transform an idea for improving the world into a reality. [...]

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    The Disengagement Factor
    April 20, 2011, 1 Comment

    I’ve been thinking a lot lately about who I was in college and who I am now, mostly in relation to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and where I stand on [...]

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    The Sex Trafficking Shoe-Down
    April 13, 2011, 2 Comments

    In 2008, we watched Iraqi news correspondent Muntader-al-Zaidi fling his shoes at the then American president, George W. Bush. “This is from the widows, the orphans, and those who were [...]