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The Tech Awards Honors Five International Innovators With $250,000 for Applying Technology to Benefit Humanity November 19, 2009 /India PRwire/ -- Nobel Laureate and former Vice President Al Gore today received the 2009 James...
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Ironbound Films, creators of the Sundance and PBS sensation The Linguists , announced today that Emmy Award-nominated actor Rainn Wilson, who stars as Dwight Schrute on NBC's comedy...
Social entrepreneurs can turn problems into opportunities. Change in the air: Social entrepreneurship, a business model built to solve a socio-economic problem, has come of age Entrepreneurship was once the road less taken or...
Mumbai: The Economist has described Jacqueline Novogratz as the “patient capitalist”. The 48-year-old founder and chief executive (CEO) of Acumen Fund , a social venture capital fund, does not run out of anecdotes, or patience,...
Social entrepreneurs can turn problems into opportunities. “The number of young people in campus entrepreneurship activities has skyrocketed, from a few hundred only five years ago, to over 70,000 across India today,” says...
From PRI's Living on Earth 14 October, 2009 10:30:00 Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis stand next to their pickup truck farm. (Photo: Jessica Ilyse Smith, Living on Earth) Two documentary filmmakers plant vegetables in the back of a...
Twitter’s “suggested users” list is a Who’s Who of Twitter celebrities, featuring the likes of Al Gore, Lance Armstrong, Ashton Kutcher, John McCain, Martha Stewart, and others with millions of followers. The New York Times...
As the economy reels, enterprising individuals who apply business practices to solving societal problems are gaining support from public and private sectors By Stacy Perman Social entrepreneurs—enterprising individuals who...
Ashley Ahearn reports for PRI's "The World." Driving southwest from Reykjavik, Iceland’s capital, the land looks like crumbled Oreo cookies – miles and miles of them strewn beneath a steel-gray sky. The minerals in the basalt...
Posted on: Tuesday, 22 September 2009, 16:45 CDT NEW YORK, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today at the opening plenary of the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting, Water.org co-founders Matt Damon and Gary White...
