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Death by Disease, Blamed on the Recession
Sustainable Finance: "It is deeply worrisome that inadvertently, the millions of people fighting with deadly diseases are in danger of paying the price for the global financial crisis." -- Michel Kazatchkine, executive director, The Global Fund[1] In 2010, 1.8 million people died from AIDS, 1.4 million from tuberculosis and 655,000 from malaria. The malaria deaths are mostly of African children, although there is a current debate about the total number, which could be actually 1.2 million according to a study in the Lancet that says the smaller figure, an estimate of the World Health Organization, is incorrect.[2][3][4][5] One organization that is combatin...
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Social Innovation: A New Way of Doing Your Laundry With Super Wash Balls
Social Enterprise: The Super Wash Ball is one of the latest social innovation products to help us with our laundry, especially as this...
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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 t...
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Leave the Corn, Take the Algae: Time to Say Buona Notte to Food-Based Biofuels
Sustainable Finance: You have a bushel of corn. You can either produce 2.7 gallons of ethanol or feed 50 people. Which would you choose? On...
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IBM Supports Socially Responsible Internet Initiative
Corporate Social Responsibility: Today is Safer Internet Day 2012 (#SID2012) and the initiative has attracted the support from technology giant IBM. The...
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The Meaning of Responsibility
Corporate Social Responsibility: Part 1 of 13 in Wayne Visser's "Age of Responsibility" Blog Series for 3BL Media. Do you sigh when you hear the word r...
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Social Innovation Launches Solar Ships
Social Enterprise: There has been a lot said and written about social innovation in cars and aeroplanes, but what about the sea vessels...
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Social Enterprise Supports Global Education Efforts
Social Enterprise: Social enterprise is an effective tool to help meet the challenges of global education. This is the finding of a recent...
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Chase Bank: Abusing the Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sustainable Finance: In terms of economic justice, we haven't come very far since Dr. King's famous marches from Selma to Montgomery. Hypo...
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Sustainable Paper Is Part and Parcel of a Green Magazine
Corporate Social Responsibility: When the internet became a mass phenomenon, sometime in the mid-1990s, futurologists on duty started throwing around th...
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Social Enterprise Mera Gao Power Connecting Those Without Power in India
Social Enterprise: A social enterprise electricity and mobile charging service is giving poor farming families living in one of the poo...
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Sustainable Energy Challenge Kicks Off in the UK
Corporate Social Responsibility: The Co-Operative, a pioneer of social responsibility in the UK and in business since1844, has launched a challenge wher...
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Is It Ethical to Invest in Nuclear Power?
Sustainable Finance: "I wish we had found the courage to speak out earlier against nuclear power. -- Masahito Hirose, an 81-year-old survivo...
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India Takes a New Step in Social Innovation with Cheap Tablet PC
Social Enterprise: India has introduced the world's cheapest tablet PC: the "Aakash," priced at $35. The tablet is the result of a collect...
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Empowering Local Communities in Africa through Social Innovation
Social Enterprise: This is the story of TIFIE (Teaching Individuals and Families Independence through Enterprise) a social innovation,...
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Socially Responsible UK Solar Company Announces Launch of US$7.9m Funding Round
Corporate Social Responsibility: Eight19, a company based in Cambridge UK and which is developing printed plastic solar cells as well as IndiGo pay-as-y...
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Public-private Partnerships Must Drive Global Green Growth
Sustainable Finance: "If sustainable development is to become a reality, we need to unleash a wave of public-private partnership on a much b...
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Social Innovation: Digital Health is Our Future
Social Enterprise: Digital health is the hottest growth area in technology and social innovation. According to a study by Pew Research,...
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