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Social Innovation Summit 2013: What's Next?
What happens when 800 social innovators get together to share ideas? I recently attended the 2013 Social Innovation Summit, a two-day conference held in New York at JPMorgan and the General Assembly of the United Nations. This biannual conference launched in 2010 by Landmark Ventures, a New York-based strategic and financial advisory firm, the summit brings together venture capitalists, social entrepreneurs, Fortune 500 executives, government officials and heads of foundations discuss and share innovative solutions to some of today's most challenging social issues, including education, global healthcare, veterans, women and girls, envir...
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Home Sweet Home: The Repair Corps Helps America's Vets
Habitat for Humanity and Home Depot Foundation join forces to help America's veterans by making their homes safer, hea...
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Ten Questions for Cheryl Heller
Catching up with the chair of the Design for Social Innovation MFA program at the School of Visual Arts In December, I...
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Head of the Class: Investing in Female Education Drives Human Development and GDP
HP is the first funder of a scholarship that will help female students around the world get a college degree "If you w...
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Amidst Changing Weather, Zurich Commits to Responsible Investment
The largest foreign insurer in the United States prepares for climate change and signs Principles for Responsible Inves...
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Planes, Trains and Supply Chains: Bombardier's Holistic View of Sustainable Transportation
"I think the internal combustion engine will disappear from the streets of our cities in the next thirty years because...
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Planting the Seeds of Sustainability: The Future of Cotton
"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society." -- Mark Twain Over 7,000 years ago, somew...
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A New Generation of Sustainable Investment, Trade and Development
Sustainability wasn't always a hot theme, particularly in the world of finance. But looking at the new UNCTAD World In...
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Stairway to Sustainability: Defining the New Economy in the Age of Austerity
A recent conference organized by the New Economics Institute asked two questions: What does a sustainable economy look...
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Funding the Global Warming Ceiling: An Urgent Call for Sustainable Finance
Keeping the global 21st-century temperature rise under 2 degrees Celsius will require massive sustainable investments f...
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World's Largest Development Banks to Invest $175 Billion in Sustainable Transport
By 2050, there will be more than 9 billion people on the planet. And most of them will be driving cars. That's not a g...
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The Natural Capital Declaration Highlights Sustainable Finance at Rio+20
The first commitment by financial institutions to place economic value on ecosystem services launches ahead of Rio+20...
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Coming to Casablanca: The United States and the Maghreb Build Economic Partnership
For businesses seeking to access North Africa's emerging market, NAPEO offers a window of opportunity for long-term su...
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Bill Clinton: Collaboration, Sustainability and Innovation Are Key to America's Economic Recovery
Bill Clinton has called for a more innovative and sustainable future for America. So far, the response has been strong...
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New Jersey and RGGI, Perfect Together: Too Bad Governor Christie Doesn't Think So
The New Jersey governor has unilaterally pulled out of the region's cap-and-trade program. Now two environmental group...
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Carbon for Water: A New Sustainable Finance Model Saves Lives and the Environment
An innovative carbon finance scheme tackles several issues at once: climate change, deforestation, poverty, disease and...
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Philippe Cousteau Launches "GIVE," a Unique Sustainable Investment ETF
Jacque Cousteau's grandson sees for-profit mechanisms supporting non-profit causes Building donations into the cost o...
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Goldman Sachs' $40 Billion Clean Energy Investment: Sustainable Finance Awesomeness or Public Relations Ploy?
A ten-year financial commitment to green energy is a good thing. So why all the cynicism? At its annual shareholder me...
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The Connection Between Biodiversity, Finance and Sustainable Prosperity
To combat the so-called "Sixth Extinction," we must put a price tag on healthy ecosystems. The financial sector can hel...
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Japanese Banks Extend Biggest-Ever Loan to Grow Nation's Wind Sector
UK wind turbine company to be bought by Japanese PPP for $874 million Japan produces a lot of energy, ranking third in...
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Facebook, Shmacebook: Make Your Money Work in Africa
African entrepreneurs are struggling to get funding. Impact investors, stop checking your Facebook page and listen up...
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