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New blog on social entrepreneurship from College of Wooster

Two researchers (&/or social entrepreneurs) have recently launched a blog on social entrepreneurship which I wanted to introduce to you: "Global Social Entrepreneurship - Assessment Trip". Amyaz Moledina, Director of Social Entreprenuership, and Marianne Sierocinski, a junior Urban St...

July 8: China Cleantech Business Forum

© star5112 2Point6Billion (a blog that looks at economic issues in China and India) has a write up online on the upcoming China Cleantech Business Forum. The July 8th forum will be Asia's first cleantech business conference. Cleantech is a growing industry focus for venture capital and...

Polaris Project: How to attack human slavery challenge?

Two gradute students in Brown university participated in the annual entrepreneurship competition, they knew they would have a tough time: Their idea was establishing a social enterprise which was more difficult to deal with compared with normal ones and also, they had to do their homework anyway. ...

Social Entrepreneurhip at Stanford

As you might know, California has probably the highest unemployment rate in the U.S. now as the result of the economic downturn. The companies in Silicon Valley as an example are scaling back and laying off many people which has created lots of difficulties for students and graduates of universities...

Social Entrepreneurship using Facebook

I don't know how many of you have a personal profile in Facebook (I guess most of you at the website has grown to more than 200 million users) but what I have found out recently is that Facebook is not only a website for sharing photos and contact info. with friends but also a good way of st...

Beer company to contribute to social entrepreneurship movement

Beer companies are also joining social movement; yes that's right: As a part of the 250th anniversary celebrations behind brew master, Arthur Guinness's signing of the 9,000 year lease at St. James Gate in Dublin, Guinness has pledged to raise €2.5 million in start up capital for its Art...

China's today national distribution capabilities

CHaINA web magazine has recently done a Q&A with Jean Pierre Chesse , the founder and CEO of Sinodis, a food importer and cold chain lo-gistics service provider in China. I went through the piece and even though the interview was more around cold chain in China, there were some interesting ...

Social entrepreneurship in China

Kristi Heims of Seattle Times gives nice examples of how some Chinese companies are taking responsibility towards creating a socially responsible business and also the role of the entrepreneurs in this area. One interesting one was the following: In Guangxi Province in southern China , a w...

A piece based on the social activites by Infosys

When Infosys' founder Narayana Murthy pledged part of his personal wealth to help "wonderful people" working to spread education and health across India, I believe he became one of the new pioneers of a movement in combining business sense an strategy with social contribution. A ...

Transforming social housing in Africa

One of the people who recently got featured by INSEAD Business School in France as a transforming factor in social enterprises is Taffy Adler. Taffy become the CEO of the Johannesburg Housing Company (JHC) in 1996. According to INSEAD, the company is an urban regeneration agency that operates ...

The best entrepreneurs of the year?

Teaching slum dwellers in Guatemala to sell worm byproducts as fertilizer or helping disabled Nigerians become business owners rather than beggars: These might seem very controversial ideas in the first sight; well actually these are some of the noble ventures being undertaken by the 20 "so...

A cool example of sustainable development in Africa

This is a cool example I found recently on how Dubai is helping Rwanda with developing tourism capabilities and improve its level of welfare. In this article (link here ) in Fast Company, the authors highlight how different institutions and countries like UAE are helping Rwanda's tourism&...

The story of the Kiva from its founder

Jessica Jackley Flannery, an MBA graduate who founded Kiva, the micro lending website has written the story of she came up with the idea of her company in Stanford Social Innovation Review (It's a bit old, from Sep. 2008, but interesting...the link is here ). She got obsessed by the idea ...

Ideas for social entrepreneurship in crisis times

In today's tough environment, when lots of middle and low class people lose their jobs, and when there is lower support for developing countries, social entrepreneurship become even more important. However, the ideas and business models should be adapted to the current economic situation (an...

New book: The power of unreasonable people...

George Bernard Shaw once said: "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all the progress depends on the unreasonable man". This is the main theme of the book "The Power of Unreasonable People...

E+Co receives award for the development in energy

The Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) at Duke University launched a new award called the "Enterprising Social Innovation Award" as part of its ongoing efforts to promote the entrepreneurial pursuit of social impact. They hope to recognize outstanding individu...

Success story: God's Love We Deliver...

Ganga Stone joined forces with Jane Best and Restaurant Claire in 1986 to help patients with HIV and other serious problems get food delivery service for free. Restaurant Claire prepared meals that Ganga and volunteers delivered to people living with HIV/AIDS in Manhattan. They started delivering ab...

Social media and social entrepreneurship

First of all, a note on the previous blog: Jill Finlayson kindly provided more links to the Bill Drayton's presentations/lectures which are pretty cool (check the comments for previous blog to watch them). As the time passes by, I am coming to the conclusion that technology is a good think...

What are three big things in social entrepreneurship in 2009?

As we are in the beginning of the year 2009, I wanted to ask you a futuristics! question: What are the top trends in the year 2009 in area of social entrepreneurship? I personally think there are 3 movements which have already started and will continue in 2009 as well: The first one is cre...

Social (business) plan: Do we really need it?

Many people ask: When we want to establish a social start-up, is it really important to write a business (or let's say social) plan? The answer is yes: It doesn't matter if you're talking about a business idea or a social idea, in any case, you need to raise funds from companies, ban...

2008 Resolutions: Have a Green New Year's Party

Green Living Online has a wonderful list tips for a green new year's party . I will certainly keep this handy as a checklist for the party just to make sure I don't forget anything. There was one thing in particular that was news to me though: "If you do need to go disposable then...

2008 Resolutions: Forming Eco-Friendly and Green Habits

More often than not, no matter all your best intentions, your New Year's resolutions still fail. You probably can't even remember your 2007 resolution, can you? Although, I'm certainly one to talk - I can't remember mine either! However, now more than ever, it is absolutely imper...

Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidays to you and yours! In an effort to not be a Scrooge, all I'm going to say is I hope you didn't get wrapped up in negligent consumerism and all the typical political correction of Christmas. I mean, come on - Santa is too fat ? Trust me, the gluttony of old Saint Nick ...

Audeamus is a Top Pick: Linking Up

...u all, so very much - I'm totally flattered! The School for social entrepreneurs lists Audeamus as one of their picks for the "most influential / readable / interesting / relevant b...

Following Up: Tesla Electric Car, Safety of Cloned Livestock, and Chinese Food

Tesla's high performance electric car featured in Pure Electric (Horse)Power has asked for another $40 million to get the tech right, according to Earth2Tech (via TechCrunch ). Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) has urged the FDA to release a final assessment on the s...

Energy in the Spotlight: Week in Review

A little known fact about the energy bill (President) Bush signed on December 19 - you will be required to buy and use more efficient - and more expensive - light bulbs . While this could be considered a good thing, I don't like government regulating what should and should not be done....

Federal Food Regulation is a Failed State, Time to Abolish FDA and Similar

The FDA and several of the food regulating bodies around the world are failing. The time has come for their final demise, and for responsible consumerism to reign supreme. However, because of the totalitarian dictatorship most regulating agencies have had over the food industry, the market is n...

Losing My Appetite for Food Regulation, Part 2

Chang W. Lee/The New York Times What's wrong with China? Well... "For 50 years," said Wang Wu, a professor at Shanghai Fisheries University, "we've blindly emphasized economic growth. The only pursuit has been G.D.P., and now we can see that the water turns dirty and the...

Losing My Appetite for Food Regulation, Part 1

Due to the total lack of food manufacturer transparency, the only real way to track what goes into your mouth is by watching what the food regulation agencies are talking about. In my reading of the recent news from miscellaneous agencies around the world, I couldn't help this prevailing thou...

The Long Arm of Corporate Social Responsibility

Sustainability Blog , like many others, seem to think the practices of corporations, socially responsible or otherwise, are like the news on TV - we just watch it happen. There is another popular opinion that CSR is just a bunch of propaganda and marketing. I don't entirely agree with eith...

One World Trust's Grudge Against Google: Consumer Cautions

Google didn't cooperate with OWT - and so they struck back in their 2007 accountability report . They even managed to give a completely false assessment on Google [pdf] "based on publicly available information." I am not going to consider OWT a good resource after this, and y...

Pure Electric (Horse)Power: Today's Future Solutions

I don't know about you, but I've wanted a Shelby Cobra for as long as I can remember - and now I don't have to feel guilty about getting one. That particular Shelby pictured above (photo by Dave Bullock ) is a brand spanking new kit car from HST Automotive converted to use K2 batt...

GiggleFish Green Gifting: Blips on the "Green"dar

If you don't have all your Christmas, Hanukkah, or Yule (etc) shopping done yet (I certainly don't!), then go green this holiday season and shop at GiggleFish . They have a little bit of everything, and unlike some green and organic gift shops I have seen, some of their stuff is a...

Modern Human Slavery, Socially Responsible Activism: Week in Review

This week in the news: It is all too comfortable to think of " slavery " as a thing of the past. Well here's a news flash - Modern Human Trafficking and Slavery . The President of Brazil is calling for better social responsibility in lawmaking. Corporations seem to be f...

Australia Will Be Strong, Despite Election: Today's Future Solutions

The New Aussie Leader Quick profile on Kevin Rudd Australian Voters Reject Howard, Elects Rudd Rudd Reminiscent of Depression-era Prime Minister Scullin Kevin Rudd: Pro and Anti China? Alright global economy, start taking notes. Australia is definitely doing something right . Fo...

Audeamus Makes Headlines: Linking Up

...make it a point to make posts like these linking back to you. (Read: Shameless linkbaiting!) Wow! Audeamus Made Headlines My post on the ADA, " A Recipe for Disaster ", was featured on ...

Recycling Innovation with Invaluable Benefits: Blips on the "Green"dar

Wauwatosa, Wisconsin is the next city to get rid of all those cumbersome bins in favor of a better option . They realized, like many recycling enthusiasts, sorting recyclables has far too many problems. What if you need two bins for bottles? What about the stuff that's just too big? So th...

Fixing Transparency will Fix Everything: Consumer Cautions

CSR activists are playing hardball, impatient to let free-market Darwinism decide the fate of business. Fighting for a personal platform, they do not see the damage they cause. Breaking Ethics News This Thursday at Dixie State College, Utah , their bi-monthly Business and Ethics Foru...

Virgin Founder With Eyes on the Sky: Social Spotlight

(Image via Turkish Daily News) A man after my own heart, Sir Richard Branson, spoke at a leadership conference in Istanbul this past Saturday on his very high hopes and socially responsible plans for Virgin in Turkey. He has had his hands in anything and everything ever since his teens,...

The Stuff They Won't Tell You: This Week's Picks

This week's book picks come from Publisher's Weekly April 16 non-fiction reviews and are heavily abridged to fit your schedule. My Favorite: Never Shower in a Thunderstorm: Surprising Facts and Misleading Myths About Our Health and the World We Live In Anahad O'Connor. Times, ...

A Change in Format: Requesting Your Two Cents

I just recently started working at MasterNewMedia.org , and a few tricks of the trade I am picking up over there will start migrating to what I do here. If you have any questions or problems with the changes listed below, please don't hesitate to let me know! What This Means for You In...

How to Avoid Giving to Thin Air

There are many ways for a charity to mis-use your money, but don't let that deter you from giving. Much like everything else in life, being well-informed is essential to ensuring your next step isn't into a deep, water filled, pot hole. Of course, you don't have to give just money ei...

A Thankful Time of Year

... this time of year that one way to show our thanks is to give to others. Creative Weblogging's Audeamus weblog is always socially aware and thus reminds us some important ways we can give thanks...

An Innovative Lease on Green Gifting

Imagine this. It's that time you've been waiting for - the moment you get to find out what is beneath all that wrapping paper and mystery. After holding out for so long, you finally tear away the paper, pop open the box, and find ... half a dozen apples. Okay, so that's not terribly ...

Little Things Count The Most

The simplest and smallest little Things always seem to make the biggest impact. Little gifts to your loved one, calling mom and dad to tell them you're okay - and charitable donations from mid and low income sources. When comparing people ages 35 and under, the NewTithing Group found th...

Giving thanks with "Thanks" and giving

The holiday season is upon us, with Black Friday less than a week away. Of course, you probably already knew that given all the Christmas decorations lining store shelves well before Halloween. Ah, but if only the Spirit of Christmas Future could see us now... For some, it is a grim reminder. Ho...

Greener Alternatives: Entertainment

I don't know about you, but I hate going to a store to rent movies. For one, all you're going to find is mainstream drivel, and even if you like mainstream drivel it's just about impossible to find something interesting if you didn't go there for a specific title. Not to mentio...

Audeamus Gets Press

Creative Weblogging's Audeaumus.com has recently been included in a post concerning the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Is the act doing what it was designed to do? Is it really necessary or is it causing more harm than good? These issues are discussed and by The Issue : Detractor...

Supposedly all Hispanics like Baseball

In a rather bold move, Bank of America has decided to offer Spanish language services and statements for its MLB branded credit cards. I say bold for two reasons. Granted we don't have an Official language in the USA, but there is a very large population of people who disagree with ...

Peat rich in complaint

The Canadian Sphagnum Peat Moss Association, Premier Horticulture, Inc. and Sun Gro Horticulture Distribution have filed a complaint [pdf] against Organix, Inc for the company's use of "RePeat" as the name for their renewable substitute for peat moss. Peat moss is also technica...

Natural Remedies

Sometimes an enterprise can have relatively questionable tactics, but otherwise offer something quite positive to the consumer. Kevin Trudeau and his slew of books on natural cures is one such enterprise. One of his books, Natural Cures " They" Don't Want You to Know About , has ...

Modern day American slavery

John Bowe was recently on a book tour for his newest publication Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy about - as you might have guessed - modern day slavery in the United States. In an audio recording of said book tour , he mentions some se...

Hypothetical Question

So here's a hypothetical question for you. What would you do with a pen, 10 minutes, and 1 vote? Don't answer! This is a hypothetical question. Just do it! And may I recommend Ron Paul? You probably haven't heard of him though, since News Corp has been so focused on obama (an...

Handy tool for responsible consumerism

Of all the things you use and have in your home, the last thing you have is time to see if every last item was produced in a socially responsible way. And since you can't expect pure honesty from the corporate website, it would take hours of research just to find out. Fortunately, with a spe...

Responsible Employment

There are many ways to support the operations of an enterprise. You can buy their products, buy their stock, recommend the company to others, and you can work for them. I believe that if you work for a company that you know is being less than vigilant on social issues, you are responsible for the...

Responsible Consumerism Part 2

One thing so many people seemed to have lost is a sense of value for money. In the spirit of perhaps changing that, here's a poem I wrote some time ago on the matter, previously posted in an older blog of mine, Mayo Brains . Live FOR Living Now I look around and see deception abou...

Responsible Consumerism Part 1

...in order to keep getting paychecks. In the spirit of transparency... Yes I do get paid to write Audeamus. However, as evidenced by the Get Paid to Blog page from the Creative Weblogging main blo...

Where do I get my leads?

I was asked some time ago how I have the time to read all of this, and where I find my information. It took me a while to think about how to answer that some way besides "that's just who I am," but I think I have an answer for you now. The simple answer is, this is my life. I use a...

Don't have a cow, but that milk isn't organic

I've said it before, and I'll say it again - in business, it's all about the money eventually. Time warp to 2003, Aurora Dairy gets a big $18 million investment to help finalize the company's transition from conventional milk to organic milk production (why chemical infested ...

Don't Diet

Hypothetically, let's say you had a product and the power to coerce the entire world to want your product, completely unbeknownst to them. Would you do it? Now you might think I'm some crazy conspiracy theorist, but hear me out. I think some food and medicine companies are playing a nast...

Al Gore Nobel Winner

As I'm sure you know by now, Al Gore is one of the winners of the Nobel Peace Prize , due to his campaign against global warming. Here are a few updates from around the web, some pro some con. First, from Telegraph , who focus on the idea that he might run for office: Supporters of M...

Lama Laughter

While there are a lot of serious issues in the world today, sometimes we have to stop and giggle, which is something the dalai lama loves to do, and rightly so! CNN.com has a laugh or two with him and a few other well-known world leaders in a silly video they put together , which is worth ...

Global Warming, Water Crisis: Reality Now

Kashmir's rivers and streams have decreased by two-thirds , and many glaciers have completely disappeared over the last four decades. Average temperatures have risen between 2.6 and 4.2 degrees Fahrenheit in the last two decades, depending on where you are - putting the state's wa...

Responsible Reporting

Columnist Jenni Carlson in Saturday's Oklahoman attacked Oaklahoma State backup QB Bobby Reid, essentially stating that he just didn't care about the game. Coach Gundy didn't like it. No, not in the least . And while most bloggers are calling it a meltdown, I'm with Peter Sch...

Resources for North Carolina

I just recently moved to North Carolina (yesterday), and happened upon a couple excellent publications. One of them is Indy , a free weekly publication that focuses on social activism and human rights in general. Another great resource for healthy living is Innerchange magazine , which I belie...

Socially responsible investing

Darron Stover of www.invest4change.com wrote in this month's Innerchange magazine about investing in energy. Although somewhat vague and obvious, he does offer some good tips for those that wish to invest in better energy alternatives. One of the key worries for socially responsible inve...

Study finds true cause of most breast cancer

Isn't it sad that we need non-profit third parties to figure out what pesticides, cosmetics, dyes, prescription drugs, and gasoline does to us? The manufacturers should do the studies and be honest about the potential side effects of their products, but they are not. We in the USA have to wa...

Vesting in social change

If you're interested in buying stocks of socially responsible companies, there is an index of Dow Jones traded companies called FTSE4Good which is regularly maintained by a committee to ensure they are indeed socially responsible. Even if you don't have the cash to invest, the FTSE4Good i...

Oh Noes!!1!

I'm not sure if you have heard about the LOL Catz fad (how ever they want to spell that), but I'm having a hard time deciding whether it's cute or annoying. To an extent it seems to encourage poor spelling and perhaps even helps dumbing down beauty competition entrants , as this ...

The Press's Inherent Bias

BuzzMachine has a very interesting viewpoint on the so-called impartiality of journalists . Albeit technical and rather thickly written, it definitely poses a very good point. "There I think we see the corner into which the impartial journalist paints himself. He is looking for cover f...