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WWF-Canada and Loblaw to Raise Awareness about Climate Change in National Sweater Day
Corporate Social Responsibility: The second annual National Sweater Day - a WWF-Canada campaign, presented by Loblaw Companies Limited (Loblaw) - will take place February 9th and is expected to engage thousands, predominantly through school and workplace activities. The campaign is meant to educate and motivate Canadians on the issue of Climate Change; specifically, how individual actions can help reduce energy use at work, school and home. The message is simple: wear a sweater and lower the thermostat. "If every Canadian turned down their thermostat by two degrees Celsius [35.6 Fahrenheit] each winter, 2.2 mega-tonnes of carbon dioxide could be saved every year - equiv...
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What Would Jesus Do? The Occupy Movement and the Intersection of Greed, Ethics and Faith
Sustainable Finance: "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
Sustainable Finance: "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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An Island Sails Towards Sustainability and Self-Sufficiency
Corporate Social Responsibility: The Isle of Wight stretches across 23 miles by 13 miles off the English south coast. It is home to a population of 142,...
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Youth Social Entrepreneurship Course Included in Curriculum in Pakistan
Social Enterprise: The Youth Entrepreneurship Service (YES) Network, a leading supporter of the involvement of youth in social enterprises...
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What, Me Worry? Denial, Addiction and the Sorry State of Global Finance
Sustainable 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
Sustainable Finance: "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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IBM Helps Rio de Janeiro To Become More Sustainable
Corporate Social Responsibility: SmarterCities Rio, a forum hosted by's IBM's CEO Samuel J. Palmisano earlier this week, examined ways on how government...
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Social Enterprise: United Nations Names 2012 the International Year of Co-operatives
Social Enterprise: The United Nations (UN) has decided that 2012 is the year to mark international co-operatives, and to recognise the cru...
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Social Enterprise Facilitates Online Micro-loans for Small Entrepreneurs
Social Enterprise: Kiva is a unique social enterprise that enables small entrepreneurs in more than 60 countries to receive microfinancing...
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Australia Passes Legislation To Make Its Economy More Sustainable
Corporate Social Responsibility: The Australian Senate yesterday passed a landmark law which makes it the first major economy to put a tax on carbon. Th...
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Social Innovation: All Women Should Have Access to Contraception Globally
Social Enterprise: In our world today, low-income countries are affected by the lack of social innovation and access to modern family plan...
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LinkedIn Connects Chilean Social Entrepreneur with Kenya
Social Enterprise: Sebastian Salinas Claro, a young social entrepreneur from Chile is headed to Kenya to help launch a social entrepreneur...
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Alaska Airlines Takes Off With Sustainable Fuel
Corporate Social Responsibility: The aviation industry is often singled out as one of the major sources of carbon emissions. In order to mitigate its im...
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India Being Socially Innovative for a New Type of Nuclear Power Plant
Social Enterprise: India is harnessing social innovation by announcing plans for a new type of nuclear power plant that uses a safer fuel....
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Old Brain vs. New Brain: The Impact of Impulse on Financial Decision-Making
Sustainable Finance: Could mood-based impulses inherited from our early human ancestors threaten not only our stock portfolios but the futur...
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Social Innovation: Can Apple become a Solar Game Changer?
Social Enterprise: There are rumours that Apple wants to embrace social innovation and build a big solar farm to power its newly built, $1...
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B-School for Global Social Enterprise
Social Enterprise: Stanford's Graduate School of Business has received an unprecedented gift of $150 million to create a new institute to...
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UNAIDS Uses Social Media For Socially Responsible HIV Education Initiative
Corporate Social Responsibility: Crowdsourcing, or engaging group of people or community through an open call to collectively develop ideas and concepts...
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Dr. John Wiebe: An Exclusive Justmeans Q&A
Sustainable Finance: Leading up to the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD), aka Rio+20, which plans to set the glob...
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Accenture Funds Training Programs in South Asia
Social Enterprise: The leading global consultancy company, Accenture, has recently provided an additional grant of more than $2 million to...
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