Blog Profile / Dowser
| URL : | http://dowser.org/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Society & Culture | |
| Posts on Regator: | 339 | |
| Posts / Week: | 3.1 | |
| Archived Since: | May 26, 2011 | |
Blog Post Archive
The Millennial Version of "Mad Men": Office Kuki Offers Sustainability Brand Consulting
Back in the days of “Mad Men,” companies would spend big bucks on advertising in magazines and billboards. That still happens, but small start-ups can’t afford to shell out for major ad campaigns, nor are they usually looking to scale up so quickly....
The Unreasonable Institute At Sea: A Mobile Incubator
The Unreasonable Institute, an incubator for social enterprise start-ups from around the world, has teamed up with Stanford’s d.school and the study abroad program Semester At Sea to offer a unique business development experience for technology-focused social entrepreneurs: the Unreasonable Institute at Sea....
Drink Water? 999Bottle Lets You Measure How Much Plastic You Don't Use
If you've started to feel like plastic has taken over the world, it has -- from the Tupperware in our kitchens to children's toys to the remote patches of ocean it has polluted. And the increase in reusable water bottles may seem like...
Are Too Many Social Enterprises Adding To Our Problems?
If you want to change the world—whether locally or globally, big or small—you’ve probably thought about starting up your own social enterprise or nonprofit. Think again. Author and Columbia University instructor Brian Reich says that too many organizations impede progress toward solving the...
Ethikus Leverages the Power of the Ethical Consumer
The idea that change starts small isn’t new. But in an age when large corporations seem increasingly ubiquitous and powerful, small businesses have become an important locus of sustainable economic movements. # From May 3-10, hundreds of New Yorkers will participate in the...
Weekly Roundup: Malaria Making Progess?
This week the global health and development community marked World Malaria Day (April 25), highlighting new initiatives to fight malaria: the Partnership for Transforming Health Systems in tandem with the Clinton Health Access Initiative; the African Development Bank's $30 million grant for malaria;...
Journalist Kevin Fagan on the Link Between Reporting on Solutions and Creating Them
Journalist Kevin Fagan spent months immersed in the homeless community in San Francisco for his “Shame of the City” series, which ran in the San Francisco Chronicle in 2003. The series not only documents the daily lives and personal struggles of homeless people...
Newberg: How Real is the Impact Economy?
Mark Newberg is a one-man balancing act who has taken on three positions with a common thread: impact. Previously, he was the Senior Policy Advisor to the Office of US Small Business Administration. Now, he dons three different roles while pushing for business...
Weekly Roundup: Will Global Governance Ever Be Global?
A few weeks back, there was a lot of chatter as to who would don the hat of president of the World Bank. As the NYTimes reported, having more than one candidate for the top seat was a first for the bank. ...
David Brooks, Politics and Social Entrepreneurs
# In a recent New York Times column, David Brooks takes note of the increasing popularity of social entrepreneurship – but unfortunately frames it as a kind of naïve idealism, a path by which young people will avoid political participation and fail to...
Are Social Entrepreneurs Too Idealistic?
Are social entrepreneurs too idealistic? David Brooks thinks so. In his recent Times column, he wrote that “young idealists” are, while “refreshingly uncynical,” also too naïve, and unaware about national and regional politics. # Social entrepreneurs, he writes, “have little faith in the...
An Uphill Battle For Medical Marijuana
Earlier this month in Oakland, the Federal government raided a center for training in marijuana cultivation. At least half a million people in California use marijuana as a form of treatment for medical conditions, including glaucoma, multiple sclerosis, chronic migraines, AIDS, and chemotherapy-related...
Weekly Roundup: Facing the Drought and Hunger Again
Sahel: A Familiar Tale of Drought, Hunger, and Famine Last year, the Horn of Africa suffered from drought and famine. Now, there’s news again that famine and drought are hitting the African continent, this time in the Sahel region. Ten million are facing...
Small Business Strife in Emerging Markets: ANDE
The Aspen Network of Development Experts, or commonly referred to as ANDE, targets a missed market of small businesses in emerging markets. By working through intermediary organizations, such as Ashoka, Skoll, Endeavor, Accion, Inveneo, and more, ANDE hopes that more investors, multinationals, and...
Organizing for Resilience: The Transition Towns Network
A while back, Dowser wrote about Bellingham, Washington, a town that is consciously developing its local economy in order to withstand the global recession. Across the world, communities are forming around principles of sustainable, locally-based living, with awareness that natural resources—like oil—are finite,...
Weekly Roundup: Burma Emerges
Burma: On the Threshold of Democracy? Civil society showed its force this week in Burma. The people’s call for a more democratic nation finally came through when Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy won 43 of the 45 seats available for...
Live Webcast Today: TedxChange-The Big Picture
# Beginning at 11:30 a.m. EST today (5:30 p.m. Central European Time), TedxChange will be Webcast live from Berlin, Germany. # TEDxChange is a partnership between TED.com and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The theme of the two hour event is "The...
Steve Rothschild On How Non-profits Can Learn From Market-Driven Organizations
Steve Rothschild’s recent book, The Non-Nonprofit, argues that issue-focused non-profits would do well to take some cues from corporate, market-driven approaches. After an extensive career in the corporate world, Rothschild managed several non-profits--including Twin Cities Rise, which focuses on training men from underemployed...
Beverly Schwartz: Social Entrepreneurship Flourishing
Beverly Schwartz, the author of Rippling: How Social Entrepreneurs Spread Innovation throughout the World, serves as Vice President of Social Marketing at Ashoka. We caught up with her just before the launch of her new book. # Dowser: In a nutshell, what is...
Weekly Roundup: BRICS, Banks, and Baggage
Do We Need Another Bank? This week the BRICS (China, India, South Africa, Brazil, and Russia) met in Delhi to discuss the possibility of a BRIC bank; One that would rival the World Bank and the IMF, which have long been described as...