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Friday Roundup ? 4/22/11: Adapting to Climate Change
In the next 30 years, 60% of global population growth will be concentrated in Asian cities. A new report by Intellecap, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network identifies key opportunities for building profitable enterprises that also help citizens adapt to the symptoms of global warming.
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On Earth Day: From Ecuador, Portrait of a Green Enterprise
Decades of oil drilling in Ecuador has devastated huge swaths of the Amazon rainforest and its wildlife, threatening to destroy the ancestral homes of native tribes and their culture. But some of these indigenous people are finding a way to balance development and conservation, while building an ecologolically friendly business enterprise.
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Notes from the Vision Summit in Germany
"People who have a vision should go see a doctor." - Former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. Around 1,000 of his fellow countrymen and several social visionaries from abroad duly ignored this recommendation, once formulated by the pragmatist leader as the German social entrepreneurship community gathered for the fourth Vision Summit.
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