Tag Archives | Sustainability

Mining Gold in E-Waste and Ex-Cons

By on April 2, 2013 in Building a Social Venture, Social Entrepreneurship, Stories of Impact

Kabira Stokes is YOXI’s newest Social Innovation Rockstar (SIR) — Yoxi’s term for entrepreneurs who are rocking the social innovation Casbah.  We were inspired by Kabira’s unique ability to realize how seemingly unrelated problems can be linked together to form a systemic solution. Stokes’ triple-bottom-line social enterprise was built on the realization that hundreds of [...]

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Attempting Sustainability

By on February 22, 2013 in Community Building, Impact Assessment, Social Entrepreneurship, Stories of Impact

You’ve heard the term “sustainability,” but have you thought about it outside of the environmental context? There are many ways in which social change programs can be unsustainable. Programs can be designed without a community’s real capacity, interest, or needs in mind. They can provide expensive and unfamiliar tools that community members don’t know how [...]

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If It’s Not Core to Your Business, Don’t Bother with CSR

By on February 8, 2013 in Community Building, Energy / Enviornment, Featured, Social Intrapreneurship, Stories of Impact

What is the state of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) today? For the most part, we hear stories of companies touting minor, internal achievements that are far removed from the core of their businesses. While any step forward is a win, should switching to recycled paper, turning off lights on weekends or setting up a cosmetic [...]

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Seattle has Invented the Future

By on December 17, 2012 in Social Entrepreneurship, Starting the Journey, Stories of Impact

Fifty years ago, at the 1962 World’s Fair, Seattle invented the future.  Like the other world fairs of its time, the event showcased a bright, utopian future, where technology solved all the world’s problems. Unfortunately, fifty years later, the world still has problems.  In those five decades, the global population has doubled, and the average [...]

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Defining “Social Entrepreneurship”

By on December 7, 2012 in Featured, Social Entrepreneurship

“Business must be run at a profit, else it will die. But when anyone tries to run a business solely for profit … then the business must die as well, for it no longer has a reason for existence.”  — Henry Ford, founder of Ford Motor Company (1863 – 1947) One of my co-contributors, Matthew [...]

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You Are Now Leaving Your Comfort Zone

By on September 7, 2012 in Social Entrepreneurship, Stories of Impact

They say that the top ten jobs of 2015 don’t exist yet. I have a feeling that this is true for the career I’m personally pursuing right now. It all sounds great and yes, I love being an entrepreneur in the emerging field of sustainability. But when I look at my pregnant wife and feel [...]

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