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Peru’s Vice President Inaugurates a Coffee Processing Plant in Canchaque
Equal Exchange 
December 22nd, 2011
The cooperative, presided over by Artemio Jimenez Huaman, has 233 members and approximately 323 hectares of coffee cultivation which annually produce 2 thousand one-hundred pound sacks of coffee.
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Loading ...The Common Good Enterprise—A New Term for an Emerging Sector
Yobo
December 19th, 2011
A new sector is being born that blurs the lines between for-profit and not-for-profit worlds. Business used to be about jobs and profit. Civil society organizations were the avenues to give back beyond job creation and products.
Read More (+10 rating) Loading ...Urban Agriculture and Factory Conversion, Bangkok, Thailand
City Farmer
December 8th, 2011
Located in a mixed use urban zone in central Bangkok, the Urban Farm Urban Barn aims to return green areas to the booming city.
Read More (+9 rating) Loading ...The Future of Solar Born from a Lifetime of Innovation
Ashoka
December 2nd, 2011
Eden Full always wanted to be a scientist. At the age of nine, she entered a science competition and built her first solar car.
Read More (+10 rating) Loading ...SELCO: A Business, Ongoing Case Study in Solar-Powered Social Impact
Next Billion
November 29th, 2011
SELCO, a social enterprise traditionally focused on providing solar energy to the rural underserved, has launched a new urban model in India.
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Criterion Ventures
December 21st, 2011
The multiplied social and financial returns that result when gender is taken seriously – in investing (and impact investing), in business (and social business) – are inextricably tied.
Read More (+9 rating) Loading ...Getting Better at Going Green
Global Post
December 8th, 2011
What can be done about an intractable problem like the movement of the sun?
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Echoing Green
December 6th, 2011
For all you budding social entrepreneurs out there, you’ll have until January 9, 2012 to submit your social change business plans.
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Dollars & Sense
November 29th, 2011
How thousands of co-ops, worker-owned businesses, land trusts, and municipal enterprises are quietly beginning to democratize the deep substructure of the American economic system.
Read More (+7 rating) Loading ...Jewelers to Broadly Introduce Fairtrade & Fairmined Gold to US Market in 2012
Triple Pundit
November 18th, 2011
A diverse, international group of jewelry, environmental, and mining stakeholders convened in Santa Fe, New Mexico on October 29-30, 2011. They agreed on a common vision of “a world in which jewelry, from mine to market, benefits the environment and everyone that touches it.”
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