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Mar 31 2012
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Good & Gasp, Impact Investing, Justice & Society, Social Enterprise, Sustainability

Good & Gasp #3 – Social Enterprise in Chinese, EcoMind, Common Wealth, Muppetgate, Human Engineering

Good & Gasp #3

Social Enterprise in Chinese, EcoMind, Common Wealth, Muppetgate, Human Engineering

Themes that caught my attention, interest or made my eyes roll while roaming the web world of doing good:

  • Social Enterprise in Chinese – 3 definitions of “social enterprise” in the same (huge) country?
  • EcoMind & Mental Myths – do the “end of growth” pessimists have it all wrong?
  • Common Resource Use Charges – should companies pay for polluting (and should we get some of the proceeds of such “common wealth” charges)?
  • Goldman Sachs’ Muppetgate – why do GS’ “muppet” clients keep coming back for more?
  • Human vs. Climate Engineering – should we consider genetically “making” humans more environmentally friendly?

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Feb 19 2012
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Career, Good & Gasp, Impact Investing, Social Entrepreneurship

Good & Gasp #1 – Encore-Stagers, Toil-o-preneurs, Impact Investing Bubbles

Good & Gasp #1

Encore-Stagers, Toil-o-preneurs, Impact Investing Bubbles

Themes that caught my attention, interest or made my eyes roll while roaming the web world of doing good:

  • Encore Fellowships – how to use the potential of OLDER people, instead of YOUNGER people
  • Toil-o-preneurs – innovations in solving worldwide sanitation problems
  • Civic responsibility – how to get Americans to find public jobs “cool” again (if ever)
  • Impact Investing troubles and bubbles – are we on an impact investing bubble since nobody seems able to find all those financially juicy deals that we’ve been promised?
  • Good (Business) Generation Gaps – discussion on the shift in generations towards doing more social good (btw, this was a “gasp” for me)

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Feb 19 2012
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Announcements, Good & Gasp

Announcement – Introducing Good & Gasp

Dear Good Generation,

We all are busy nowadays clicking on countless tweets, Facebook posts and blog news all over the web, and I would be the first to admit it’s a bit tiring as I’d love to find more summaries of interesting stories like the ones you get on Acumen Fund’s “Seen and Heard” and Echoing Green’s “The Buzz”.

In the spirit of “replicaneurship” (this past Weekly Ponder #5‘s topic), I would like to start something similar. That is, a weekly or periodic list of articles and discussions around the online ether that I found cool, interesting, or where I even left comments myself (“Good”) or that I found, rather uncool, superficial, superfluous, incomplete, or that made me simply angry (“Gasp”). Either way, I figure it’s a win-win for all. Readers (you) get another summary of “must-reads” or “must avoids”, authors get more traffic (for better or worse) and I might get the satisfaction of more people reading my raves and rants outside of this blog.

Oh, that reminds me. If YOU feel like being charitable, please forward me some good or terrible stuff on our favorite “do-good” and “careers” topics that you see on the net. I might check it out and include it on “Good & Gasp”.

For now, all the best roaming and reading for the next interesting story!

Sincerely,

Thien

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