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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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What Would Jesus Do? The Occupy Movement and the Intersection of Greed, Ethics and Faith
"The church was presented with an opportunity that it probably gets once in a generation...and completely blew it." --...
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A Soldier's Life: The Trials and Tribulations of Military Personnel in the Financial Marketplace
"It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong." -- President Abraham Lincoln By years's...
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What, Me Worry? Denial, Addiction and the Sorry State of Global Finance
"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt." -- Mark Twain As Europe's leaders scramble to prevent an economic meltdown, it...
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A Little Money Goes a Long Way: A Record 137 Million Microloans Issued to the World's Poorest in 2010
"If you are talking about the...poorest segment, the question is, do they really see themselves in the long run? Do the...
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Old Brain vs. New Brain: The Impact of Impulse on Financial Decision-Making
Could mood-based impulses inherited from our early human ancestors threaten not only our stock portfolios but the futur...
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Dr. John Wiebe: An Exclusive Justmeans Q&A
Leading up to the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD), aka Rio+20, which plans to set the glob...
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Visualize That: The Impact of Source Documentation and Data Visualization on CSR Analysis
When it comes to connecting the environmental and business sides of sustainability, ultimately it's a numbers game In...
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Visualize This: Justmeans Insights Uses Data Visualization to Empower Stakeholders and Inspire Transparency
Contextualization, competitive intelligence and the rise of data visualization are changing the way we understand the e...
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Kilimo Salama: Farmers in Kenya Cash in on a New Microinsurance Program
"Insurance...offers significant capacity and ability to understand, manage, and spread risks associated with weather-re...
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Offshore Wind Surges: China's Along for the Ride, Will America Join the Party?
"If passed, this bill would help transition America off fossil fuels, stimulate a new manufacturing sector and put peop...
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If You Had to Choose: Solve the Climate Crisis, Food Crisis or Financial Crisis?
"It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring....
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Rube Goldberg Goes to Washington: Wall Street's Regulation Complexification Overtakes Volcker Rule
"Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never a...
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Microfinance's Dickensian Moment: Looking for the Age of Wisdom at the Global Microcredit Summit
"Never before has there been such inspiring innovation in the field of microfinance, nor such cause for concern." -- Sa...
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A Real People's Bank: Occupy Wall Street's Call for a Public Banking Option
"When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each other and with the...
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Greener Pastures Abroad: The Effect of Free Trade Agreements on Foreign Direct Investment and Sustainability
"American automakers, farmers, ranchers and manufacturers, including many small businesses, will be able to compete and...
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If a Tree Falls in the Forest, How Much Carbon Is Released: UN Issues Warning If Private Sector Fails to Invest in REDD
"Forests are the natural treasure chests of the world, providing a host of ecosystem services that -- and this needs to...
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Tipping Points, Black Swans and Perfect Storms: Kickstarting Sustainable Finance on the Road to Rio+20
"Combining private sector financial flows and smart public policy will be a key to a low carbon, resource efficient 21s...
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Just Do It, Sustainably: Nike Gets Greener with Sustainable Venture Capital Initiative
"It took us a while, but we finally figured out that we could apply these two core competencies -- design and innovatio...
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An Affair with the Wind of the Highlands: Scotland's Transition to a Low Carbon Economy
"Across Scotland we have the opportunity to deliver 130,000 jobs in the low carbon economy by 2020." -- Alex Salmond, F...
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Sugar and Spice and Everything Necessary for Driving Economic Growth: Rural Adolescent Girls
"If you want to change the world, invest in an adolescent girl." -- Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Girls Grow: A Vi...
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