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Triple Pundit recently teamed up with SoCap10 to explore the opportunity and challenge of impact investing. In partnership with Myoo Create, we put a call out to bloggers asking: What’s Next? How will social enterprise unlock the $120 billion market opportunity for impact investment? Leading up to SoCap10 October 4th-6th, we’re featuring the best answers [...]

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Triple Pundit recently teamed up with SoCap10 to explore the opportunity and challenge of impact investing. In partnership with Myoo Create, we put a call out to bloggers asking: What’s Next? How will social enterprise unlock the $120 billion market opportunity for impact investment? Leading up to SoCap10 October 4th-6th, we’re featuring the best answers [...]

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Triple Pundit recently teamed up with SoCap10 to explore the opportunity and challenge of impact investing. In partnership with Myoo Create, we put a call out to bloggers asking: What’s Next? How will social enterprise unlock the $120 billion market opportunity for impact investment? Leading up to SoCap10 October 4th-6th, we’re featuring the best answers [...]

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By Derrick Mains, CEO of GreenNurture The concept of economics, in general, is about how one action affects another and the idea of tracking the consequences of action and inaction into every aspect of the economy. The challenge is that our economy, and capitalism itself, is changing from a purely financial view to one that takes [...]

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Triple Pundit recently teamed up with SoCap10 to explore the opportunity and challenge of impact investing. In partnership with Myoo Create, we put a call out to bloggers asking: What’s Next? How will social enterprise unlock the $120 billion market opportunity for impact investment? Leading up to SoCap10 October 4th-6th, we’re featuring the best answers [...]

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By Jenny Hoang As two major events, The UN Summit 2010: Millennium Development Goals, 2015 and the Clinton Global Initiative 2010 Annual Meeting, are underway this week, another shorter event occurred the other day, also in New York. Only 95 minutes long, Tedx Change: The Future We Make, organized by the Gates Foundation, was a [...]

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Next week, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will announce the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, a public-private partnership that will improve the quality of lives, boost economic opportunity, and combat climate change. The subject which this Alliance will tackle may appear simple, but it has a huge affect on the health and well-being of millions. A more efficient cooking stove design can go a long way towards saving time, reducing emissions, and cutting fuel waste.

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Whether it is Facebook or Twitter, social media is all the rage.  More and more companies are trying to friend you on Facebook, or get you as a follower on Twitter.  Even this article has social media features such as Facebook “like” and Twitter “retweet.”  A recent study from the Brand Science Institute, a German brand [...]

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Here at Triple Pundit, we talk a lot about the importance of sustainability. Through our articles we strive to highlight the importance of the triple bottom line. One of the three pillars of sustainability is people, typically covered in terms of how the actions of corporate America impact the human element. This story about the [...]

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As part of our partnership with the Social Capital Markets Conference 2010, we are featuring a series of interviews with key conference participants. Don’t forget to get your 30% discount by using the code “3P30″ when you register! I spoke with Nick Ellis, CEO of Job Rooster, as well as his outlook on social enterprise. Job [...]

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On my way into work this morning, I was listening to an NPR interview with Retired Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen. He was speaking with NPR’s Steve Inskeep about the lessons he’s taken from overseeing the government’s response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Allen was also involved in Hurricane’s Katrina and [...]

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Sparkseed is a social venture that supports other social ventures — but does it work?

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Can electronic medical records, or EMRs, contribute to sustainability or the triple-bottom line? Yes–and no. But, they do save lives.

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Médecins Sans Frontières set up an inflatable, plug-and-play hospital in Haiti after the earthquake. But such a hospital is not the first mobile unit.

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It isn’t often you see the words teen pregnancy and urban agriculture in the same sentence. Not only are these two words now being used together, but for one Detroit school, urban farming is a tool to help pregnant women get the nutritional food they need and hopefully turn them into future farmers of America. [...]

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Cohousing is a rapidly growing trend, showing up in both rural and urban areas. According to cohousing.org, “Cohousing is a type of collaborative housing in which residents actively participate in the design and operation of their own neighborhoods. Cohousing residents are consciously committed to living as a community. The physical design encourages both social contact and individual space. Private homes contain all the features of conventional homes, but residents also have access to extensive common facilities such as open space, courtyards, a playground and a common house.” I stopped by the Belfast Ecovillage site, just two miles outside of town, took in its quiet beauty and then checked out the 1500 sq. ft. model home with its impressive passive solar, net zero energy efficient design that the builders, G•O Logic, claim can be comfortably heated on a zero degree Maine winter night, with a single hairdryer.

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By Robert Walker When it comes to rapid population growth, Fred Pearce (who recently authored a guest post on 3p called “Overpopulation is the Wrong Focus“) wants to declare victory in the worst way. And he does. He does it by ignoring all the evidence to the contrary. He says, for example, “that the population [...]

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More articles on the controversy surrounding bottled water can be found here! On a recent walk along New York City’s Union Square Park, I came across a beautiful sight: walking in 95-degree humid heat, I saw fountains and fountains of cold, clean, and free drinking water.  A city employee, wearing a ‘NYC Water’ t-shirt, urged [...]

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In a recent posting on the Harvard Business Review, Auden Schendler argues that rather than waiting for the next big idea, Americans should focus on what can and should be done now. Improving transportation, retrofitting buildings, and adopting current energy technologies like solar cannot wait another generation—they have got to be implemented widely now if mankind is going to survive. But instead, we are preoccupied with sharing ideas, either by social media or at live events, and all this dithering is getting us no where?

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The following is a guest post by our friends at Saybrook University’s Organizational Systems Program (a 3p sponsor) – designed for students who want to understand the nature of organizations, collaborative practices, and transformative change. By Alexander Laszlo  1.  Sustainability is an inside job It seems clear to me that the search for solutions to [...]

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The following is a guest post by our friends at Saybrook University’s Organizational Systems Program (a 3p sponsor) – designed for students who want to understand the nature of organizations, collaborative practices, and transformative change. By Alexander and Kathia Laszlo If there were an easy manual for sustainability, we’d follow it:  western culture loves three [...]

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By: Fred Pearce A green myth is on the march.  It wants to blame the world’s over-breeding poor people for the planet’s peril.  It stinks.  And on World Population Day, I encourage fellow environmentalists not to be seduced. The actor Jeremy Irons has announced that he plans to make an Al-Gore style movie about the [...]

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The UFW has started a campaign, “Take Our Jobs,” aimed at those who complain that undocumented workers are taking Americans’ jobs. Visit the site, and you have an opportunity to enter your name, email, and zip code.

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Innocentive, a company that was founded in 2001 around the idea of pooling the greatest minds in the world into a collective resource was recently in the news because they offered a challenge based on the Gulf Oil spill. Close to a thousand solutions were submitted from their network, of over 200,000 innovators, many of whom have advanced degrees in science and engineering. Unfortunately, BP has shown no interest. Apparently the “Not Invented Here” syndrome that is rampant in so many companies, rules the roost at BP as well.

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The following is a guest post by our friends at Saybrook University’s Organizational Systems Program (a 3p sponsor) – designed for students who want to understand the nature of organizations, collaborative practices, and transformative change. By Dennis T. Jaffe There are plenty of environmental outrages out there: the BP oil spill, the lack of a plan [...]

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I started writing this post from inside one of ING DIRECT’s internet Cafes on the near north side of Chicago. Aside from the heavy branding and ubiquitous Orange color, the place seems like any internet cafe I’ve ever been to – halfway decent food, funky couches, free internet, everything you might need to get a [...]

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By Simon Dunne Ownership drives our economic engine. It’s an easy equation:  you make money to buy things. You make more money, you buy more and better things. You drive your car. You watch your TV. Ownership is a necessity that’s been ingrained in us.  It represents a certain level of achievement, comfort, and status. The more you [...]

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By Robert Mercer-Nairne When, in 1923, Germans were forced to carry their depreciating currency around in hand carts, the world was well on its way to Hell. Could history be repeating itself? Unless we can get a grip on the present situation, it easily could be. A characteristic of violent disruptions in human affairs is [...]

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Summer Rayne Oakes, the woman named “Hottest Eco Model, OK Only Eco Model” by Grist in 2006 is nothing if not conversation worthy. Which is why, when she walked onto the stage at Sustainable Brands 2010 , I opened my email. However, I quickly closed it and started taking notes when I realized that the 5’11 [...]

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By Leslie Back In summer 2009, my small church started a Green Team. We felt a pioneering spirit as non-conforming liberals accepting responsibility for our modern environmental crisis. We were, as corporations and other NGOs have similarly done, positioning ourselves as problem solvers, eager to take on our collective environmental mess. But this venture, new [...]

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