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Turn a Lack of Resources Into a Strength

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Tim Ferriss, author of The 4-Hour Workweek has some advice for people who are questioning a jump into something new because they question if they have the resources to do it. Granted, he’s talking about starting a business, but I think that his advice can be applied to everyday living as well. He argues that [...]

January 8th, 2008
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Green Companies Will Prosper

There’s an alright post over at CopyBrighter from a little ways back that looks at the growing demand for green companies and how we need to cater to that demand and look towards the future. Essentially green companies will prosper because it’ll be the only option in due time, so why not be green now [...]

August 21st, 2007
Topic: Environment, Good Fact Tags: , , ,

Banking for the Poor

Muhammad Yunus has a vision: to end world poverty. In order to work towards his dream, he founded a bank called Grameen Bank- bank for the poor. As stated on his website:
“Grameen Bank (GB) has reversed conventional banking practice by removing the need for collateral and created a banking system based [...]

December 14th, 2006
Topic: Equality, Good Fact Tags: , , , ,

Corporations and Society

noradawn wrote us to tell us about corporate social responsibility (CSR):
“Are corporate giants waking up? The increase of public demand for more sustainable and socially responsible practices is causing the giants of the business world to reevaluate how they do things and start implementing new practices. In essence, doing what they can to save the [...]

December 5th, 2006
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Salt Lake City to use Waste Power

Salt Lake City is going to start a small pilot project that will use sewage to heat and cool buildings. The idea uses the simple concept of heat transfer to transfer energy from one source to another.
“The system should sufficiently heat and cool Lear’s 8,000-square-foot building about 95 percent of the time. For the [...]

November 9th, 2006
Topic: Energy Tags: , , , , ,

Echoing Green Fellowship

Echoing Green has a fellowship program that gives out up to $100,000 in seed money for a new organization that will make the world a better place.
This is a great idea for people have some fantastic ideas that al they need is some capital in order to start their project. There are tons of great [...]

October 26th, 2006
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