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• Innovating by Making the World a Better Place

  
  Better World Movement — Authority: 145
  An interview with Maggie Brenneke, Director, Skoll Social Enterprise Program. When businesses consider their social and environmental bottom lines, they identify new opportunities to innovate. Some of those opportunities can be surprisingly counterintuitive.Innovating by Making the World a Better Place is a post from: ...
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• Are you a new entrepreneur?

  
  FUNKY TO FABULOUS — Authority: 121
  Are you a new entrepreneur? My bet is that you are. Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus is betting that you are. If you doubt that you have the skills or ability to become a small business owner what this video. As Yunus says, "We are all entrepreneurs.....Some lucky ones find out. Human beings are endowed with ...
  5 days ago

• Al Gore Receives Global Humanitarian Award in Silicon Valley

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 669
  Nobel Laureate and former Vice President Al Gore received the 2009 James C. Morgan Global Humanitarian Award this evening for his successful efforts to raise awareness about climate change. The award was inspired by Applied Materials Chairman Emeritus James Morgan’s belief that technology can be a tool to turn ideas ...
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• Authors@Google: Alex Counts

  
  nikkypals.com — Authority: 170
  Alex Counts visits Google’s Cambridge, MA office to discuss his book “Small Loans, Big Dreams: How Nobel Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus and Microfinance are Changing the World.” This event took place on September 30, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series. … Alex Counts Small Loans Big Dreams How Nobel Prize ...
  6 days ago

• Business of Thinking

  
  Job Searching Blog — Authority: 126
  Most management gurus belong to academics not the corporate world, which hardly encourages one to think . ………………….. Do you need brains to run a company? The top-of-mind answer would be “yes”. After all, CEOs get paid very well; someone with intelligence must have organised it that way. Do ...
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• Muslim 500 – A Listing of the 500 Most Influential Muslims in the World

  
  Muslim Media Network — Authority: 480
  By Adil James, MMNS A fascinating new book has just been issued by The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Center (in Jordan) in concert with Georgetown’s Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding. The book lists the 500 most influential people in the Muslim world, breaking the people ...
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• Corporate Social Responsibility and $1 Adidas training shoes

  
  The 3rd world view — Authority: 125
  This is a very welcoming news : Adidas, the German sports giant, is to make €1 trainers for millions of people around the world who cannot afford to buy shoes, with pilot production to begin next year in Bangladesh. This is rather at a conceptual state still as the final price will be slightly higher than this. ...
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• Sophie Théallet Wins 200K; Lindsay Not Doing Jewelry Line [Rag Trade]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 813
  Designer Sophie Théallet has won the $200,000 Vogue /CFDA Fashion Fund Award . "Thank you for making my American dreams come true," said she. [ Style.com ] Skating at an outdoor rink in London, Lily Cole knocked over a small child. [ Daily Mail ] Adriana Lima and Marko Jaric have announced the ...
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• Barack Obama And the Question of “Universal Rights”

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 451
  Barack Obama made a bold move in participating in a “town hall” meeting with Chinese students in Shanghai. However, on the basis of the Al Jazeera English account of this meeting (taken from both wire sources and their own staff), he was even bolder in how he participated: During the question-and-answer ...
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• Futurist Thomas Frey to Headline Mexican CEO Summit with Jack Welch, Mohammad Yunus, and Gary Hamel

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 553
  Speaker lineup for this week’s ExpoManagement 2009 Summit in Mexico CityOn November 19th Futurist Thomas Frey will take the stage with eight other global visionaries to help leading business executives in Mexico think through the challenges that lie ahead as businesses struggle to regain their footing in today’s ...
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• Adidas shoes at one euro for poor people

  
  Tiny News — Authority: 110
  Adidas , the gient in shoe making, normally produces trendy, expensive sportswear for people who want to project a sporty image; going to make one-euro shoes worldwide for the poor people. Addas starting their projet from Bangladesh next year. The man behind Adidas project is the Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad ...
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• Adidas to make 1 euro shoes for world’s poor

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Frankfurt, Nov 15 (DPA) Adidas, the German sports-shoe company, confirmed Sunday plans to make “one-euro shoes” to offer to the poor and barefoot of the world, with pilot production to begin next year in Bangladesh.Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus suggested the “social business” project to the company, ...
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• Yunus-Bek Yevkurov

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 963
  Born: Tarskoe, Russia, 1963, in the disputed Prigorodny region, scene of ethnic clashes between Ingush and North Ossetian militias in the early 1990s.
  2 weeks ago

• Video : Malalai Joya on Democracy Now

  
  Brave New Wave - Children of a Lesser Revolution — Authority: 434
  As stated previously , I do not necessarily agree with much of what Malalai Joya says nor do I agree with her methods, however as also stated previously , Ms. Joya is symbolic of the kind of voices that cannot be silenced if Afghanistan is to ever have a true democracy. Whether this democracy comes organically from ...
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• The Next Nobel Peace Prize Winner

  
  NEWS, VIEWS & SERENDIPITY — Authority: 118
  Bill Strickland.No, he is not a Nobel Laureate. Not yet.But if his job training centre and crafts school model is successfully replicated all over America and the World then it wont be long coming. If microcredit can win Prof. Mohammad Yunus a Nobel Peace Prize than why not Bill Strickland? I am terribly impressed by ...
  3 weeks ago

• Capitalism Isnt A Love Story: Noreena Hertz & The New World Order [Peasants Revolt]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 813
  "We have to tolerate the inequality as a way to achieve greater prosperity and opportunity for all," says Brian Griffiths , Goldman Sachs International Economic Adviser. But when does the inequality end? Noreena Hertz , rogue economist and capitalist reformer, says now . To my amusement, the Fast Company ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Landmark Murder of Maksharip Aushev

  
  The Other Russia — Authority: 497
  Writing for Yezhednevny Zhurnal, journalist Yulia Latynina chronicles the events leading up to Sunday’s murder of Ingush opposition leader Maksharip Aushev . Aushev was on his way to visit family when assailants sprayed his vehicle with machine gun fire. The Ingush President has pledged full support for the ...
  4 weeks ago

• So why did you choose to homeschool?

  
  Homefrontier — Authority: 113
  “So why did you choose to homeschool? Your children are normal….” It is often supposed that unless there was some dire need for keeping a child at home, depriving a child of conventional schooling is unreasonable, and possibly even damaging. Why? Because  no parent could ever be sufficiently equipped or ...
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• Slain Ingushetian Activist Warned of His Own Murder

  
  The Other Russia — Authority: 497
  A prominent Ingushetian human rights activist slain on October 25 had warned that any attempt on his life should be considered the work of government security forces. The assertion comes as materials from the personal archive of the victim, Maksharip Aushev, were made available by colleague Roza Malsagova on Tuesday. ...
  4 weeks ago

• NYT > World: Activist Killing Said to Be Tied to the Police

  
  A Couple Things — Authority: 468
  This is a syndicated post. Original article from NYT > World , available at NYT > World . President Yunus-Bek Yevkurov of Ingushetia said he believed that the police might have killed Maksharip Aushev, an activist.
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