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  The Green Envelope Please: The 2012 FT/IFC Sustainable Finance Awards

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  Sustainable Finance: "These awards recognize the key role that sustainable finance can play in creating jobs, fighting climate change, and improving access to finance." -

  

  Reynard Loki • December 19 • 0

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  Partners in Clime: Public Sector Support for Private Equity and Venture Capital Climate Solutions in Emerging Markets

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  Sustainable Finance: "Leaders of emerging economies must ensure that they are able to attract high-quality, sustainable investment." -- Tony Blair, November 28, 2011[1]

  

  Reynard Loki • December 16 • 0

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  Just Do It, Sustainably: Nike Gets Greener with Sustainable Venture Capital Initiative

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  Sustainable Finance: "It took us a while, but we finally figured out that we could apply these two core competencies -- design and innovation -- to bring about environmen

  

  Reynard Loki • October 10 • 0

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  The Almighty Peso: Sustainable Investing in Mexico

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  Sustainable Finance: "Companies are looking for the best place to invest. It's obvious that Mexico has been that place for North America." -- Bruno Ferrari, Mexico Minist

  

  Reynard Loki • August 28 • 1

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  Firing Humans, Hiring Machines: Jobs Cut As Global Robotics Market Surges

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  Corporate Social Responsibility: "Having billions of dollars of crops...impacted by chronic labor issues has clearly become unsustainable." -- Charles Grinnell, CEO, Harvest Automati

  

  Reynard Loki • August 21 • 3

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  Veloxrotaphobia: What the Economic Roller Coaster Means for Venture Capital

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  Sustainable Finance: "How do you get out of this roller coaster of the relentless onslaught of bad news?" -- Bruce McCain, chief investment strategist, Key Private Bank[1

  

  Reynard Loki • August 05 • 1

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  Google Goes Green With Biofuel Investment

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  Sustainable Finance: The folks at Google Ventures have been very active in the green venture capital space lately. Following a $42 million investment in the extreme weat

  

  Louis Berger • March 18 • 0

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  Farmer's Almanac 2.0: Google To Insure Against Extreme Weather

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  Sustainable Finance: Google is getting into the insurance business. Earlier this week, it was announced that Google, through their Google Ventures division, is joining a

  

  Louis Berger • March 03 • 0

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  A New Microfinance Concept for Entrepreneurs

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  Sustainable Finance: Many people dream of entrepreneurship. But the chance to own ones own business remains a dream for those who cant find investors or financing through

  

  Jeremy Bradley • February 16 • 2

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  Starting Their Own Firms: Asian Executives Defect from American Companies

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  Sustainable Finance: Bureaucracy and red tape have always, it seems, been a part of the American way of business. But in Eastern countries, such as China, these processes

  

  Jeremy Bradley • February 10 • 0

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  VCs: Dead or Alive?

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  Social Enterprise: Should we start putting venture capitalists on the endangered species list? Judging by some of the talk on conference panels held this week at Stanfo

  

  Marcia Stepanek • July 31 • 5

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  Six New Rules for Social Enterprise Start-ups

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  Social Enterprise: Start-up CEOs featured at this week's Stanford Summit in Silicon Valley say it's cheaper than ever to launch a social enterprise. Here are their Top

  

  Marcia Stepanek • July 29 • 2

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  LeBron & Co. Add Dangerous New Twist to Old Ploy

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  Sustainable Finance: "Superstar buddies work together to change the face of the game". That was the headline last week as LeBron James and Chris Bosh joined Dwyane Wade i

  

  Michael Hassett • July 14 • 2

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  Echoing Green Announces Social Entrepreneurs Selected as 2010 Fellows Part 3 of 3

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  Social Enterprise: In addressing social issues, services are as crucial as technologies and products in promoting community-wide development, sustainability and well-be

  

  Barbara Zaha • July 09 • 0

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  Echoing Green Announces Social Entrepreneurs Selected as 2010 Fellows Part 1 of 3

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  Social Enterprise: Late June, venture capital firms Echoing Green announced their 2010 Fellows, sixteen of the world's preeminent emerging social entrepreneurs. Among t

  

  Barbara Zaha • July 07 • 0

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  Fat v. Lean Startups: Which are Better?

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  Social Enterprise: The uber-venture capitalist Fred Wilson, of Union Square Ventures in Manhattan, told a group of tech entrepreneurs last month that "arguing for lean

  

  Marcia Stepanek • June 23 • 2

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  Social Enterprise: 'Diaspora' Crowdsources $200,000

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  Social Enterprise: Diaspora, the pro-privacy social network and social enterprise being built as an alternative to Facebook by four NYU classmates, announced today that

  

  Marcia Stepanek • June 02 • 0

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  Twitter Creator Gives Advice to New Entrepreneurs

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  Social Enterprise: Twitter creator Jack Dorsey, speaking at today's TechCrunch Disrupt gathering in New York, gave three bits of advice to new entrepreneurs looking to

  

  Marcia Stepanek • May 26 • 0

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  For Long Run Performance Bet on Google TV

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  Sustainable Finance: Maybe Steve Job's performance at a product introduction is more dramatic than Eric Schmidt's. Maybe there's a lot of hurdles for tv that is truly int

  

  Michael Hassett • May 24 • 0

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  Rating Agency Frankenstein or Performance Solution??

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  Sustainable Finance: On a scale of 10 (best) to 1, the performance of the major credit rating agencies in the years leading up to the bursting mortgage security bubble ea

  

  Michael Hassett • May 20 • 1

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