by Jeffrey Hollender | Mar 30, 2012
Guest Blog Post by Jason Aramburu, founder of re:char, based in Western Kenya Earth’s population is growing exponentially towards 9 billion people by 2050. While our carbon emissions increase daily, our ability to grow our own food does not. The FAO estimates that 925...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Mar 27, 2012
Out of the The New York Times unfolds a story that once again highlights the absence of morality and fair play that has come to represent the company we know as Goldman Sachs. Goldman’s own employee’s in Japan workers are unionizing. In the wake of 200,000 financial...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Mar 23, 2012
Over the course of the past decade, the movements focused on corporate social responsibility, sustainability, social innovation, cause-related marketing, micro-lending, buy-local, Fair Trade, impact investing and social entrepreneurship have grown at an astounding...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Mar 20, 2012
GoodGuide’s staff of 25—including chemists, toxicologists, nutritionists, sociologists, lifecycle-assessment experts, computer scientists, and business and marketing experts—have rated more than 120,000 food, personal-care, and household-chemical products, as well as...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Mar 16, 2012
Guess which country I’m describing? This country has: • the highest poverty rate, both generally and for children; • the greatest inequality of incomes; • the lowest social mobility; • the lowest score on the UN’s index of “material well-being of children”; • the...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Mar 13, 2012
Guest Blog Post by Fumi Tosu, Co-President, TABLE FOR TWO USA, New York, NY The global population is projected to surpass 9 billion by the middle of the century. Combined with rising incomes, the world will face unprecedented constraints on basic resources such as...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Mar 9, 2012
Achieving Impact: Responsible Business & Social Entrepreneurship View more presentations from jeffhollender. Notes from the presentation: Slide 1: Social Entrepreneurship and Responsible Business Social entrepreneurship and responsible business will only succeed...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Mar 9, 2012
This blog post was originally posted on the Seventh Generation “7Gen Blog” by “Inkslinger” on February 20, 2012. We’ve all heard about peak oil – when petroleum production hits its all-time high and then declines forever after....
by Jeffrey Hollender | Mar 6, 2012
In one of our few economic and environmental successes last year, global alternative energy deals climbed 40% to $53.5 billion. Reuters recently reported that: “Solar, wind and energy efficiency overtook hydropower as the main deal drivers for the first time. Hydro...
