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A Social Entrepreneur Giving Women in India Dignity
Social Enterprise: One Indian social entrepreneur has given women from low income groups in India dignity, by making it possible for them to afford to buy sanitary towels and provide them with an income at the same time. Arunachalam Muruganantham is the person who changed things. From a poor background in the South of India, he created the world's first low-cost machine to produce sanitary towels. According to a report by market research group AC Nielsen, "Sanitary Protection: Every Woman's Health Right", 88% of women in India are driven to use ashes, newspapers, sand husks and dried leaves during their periods. As a result of these unhygienic practices...
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Kilimo Salama: Farmers in Kenya Cash in on a New Microinsurance Program
Sustainable Finance: "Insurance...offers significant capacity and ability to understand, manage, and spread risks associated with weather-re...
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Social Innovation: 60 to 90 percent of the UK's Electricity Could Come from Renewable Energy
Social Enterprise: A new report released by the WWF this month states that the UK could be primarily powered by a safe and stable suppl...
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3BL Partners in Youth Social Entrepreneurship Program in Bahrain
Social Enterprise: The first annual Leadership Bridge Program for aspiring Bahraini social entrepreneurs was organized by Young Arab Leade...
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Offshore Wind Surges: China's Along for the Ride, Will America Join the Party?
Sustainable Finance: "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?
Sustainable Finance: "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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Social Innovation: Building a community spirit Herman Miller style
Social Enterprise: Every now again when writing about social innovation and enterprise you discover something significant and special...I...
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Trade Fair Puts Focus On Sustainable Cities
Corporate Social Responsibility: The challenges and opportunities of urbanization are being discussed at Urbantec, a showcase of "solutions for future l...
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Rube Goldberg Goes to Washington: Wall Street's Regulation Complexification Overtakes Volcker Rule
Sustainable Finance: "Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never a...
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The Unreasonable Institute for Social Entrepreneurs
Social Enterprise: Daniel Epstein is the co-founder of an organization with an unlikely name: The Unreasonable Institute. The institute in...
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Social Enterprise: Jon Bon Jovi's Soul Kitchen
Social Enterprise: Jon Bon Jovi is helping those "living on a prayer" as he opened his latest social enterprise venture this October: a re...
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Social Innovations in the Food System by Food Sol
Social Enterprise: The Babson College in MA has established the Food Solutions Institute (Food Sol) to help develop social innovations and...
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Solar Innovation: Germany Thinking of Harnessing Greece's Sunshine
Social Enterprise: As many of us are getting ready for winter, Germany is thinking about sunshine. It is considering a groundbreaking, soc...
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Socially Responsible Design Show At Atlanta's MODA
Corporate Social Responsibility: With World Aids Day (WAD) fast approaching (December 1st), a date dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic c...
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Social innovation: Lifebuoy Soap On A Global Mission to Save Children's Lives
Social Enterprise: Lifebuoy the world's oldest soap, produced by Unilever, once again celebrated "Global Handwashing Day," its social inno...
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Social Innovation Institute Launched in New Jersey
Social Enterprise: The New Jersey Social Innovation Institute has been launched during the New Jersey Social Enterprise Summit in Newark....
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The Rise of Sustainability On American Campuses
Corporate Social Responsibility: It's hard to think of better places than colleges as hubs of sustainability ideas and their dissemination. These are pl...
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Social Innovation: UK Supermarket's Food Waste Is Another Man's Banquet
Social Enterprise: The biggest source of food waste in the UK is in the home and the British government estimates that 8.3 million tonnes...
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Social Enterprise in New Delhi Launches Mental Health Helpline
Social Enterprise: Vandrevala Foundation, an Indian social enterprise promoted by a construction firm Hirco, has launched its 24x7 Mental...
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Microfinance's Dickensian Moment: Looking for the Age of Wisdom at the Global Microcredit Summit
Sustainable Finance: "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
Sustainable Finance: "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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