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[http://www.ecowalkthetalk.com/blog/ Eco WALK the Talk] is a social enterprise environmental website with an Asia focus. | [http://www.ecowalkthetalk.com/blog/ Eco WALK the Talk] is a social enterprise environmental website with an Asia focus. | ||
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Popularly known as the "Clothing Man", social entrepreneur [http://www.ashoka.org/node/2523 Anshu Gupta] created a mass movement for recycling and reusing tons of waste material by establishing a culture of sustained donations from urban, wealthy India and its impoverished rural areas. His organization, GOONJ.., has a mechanism for second-hand clothes and goods to pass from the wealthy to the poor, tackling a very basic and often neglected human need while also reducing waste. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m8odGPmvzo Ashoka video intro] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DefLzB46ZfE longer video]. | Popularly known as the "Clothing Man", social entrepreneur [http://www.ashoka.org/node/2523 Anshu Gupta] created a mass movement for recycling and reusing tons of waste material by establishing a culture of sustained donations from urban, wealthy India and its impoverished rural areas. His organization, GOONJ.., has a mechanism for second-hand clothes and goods to pass from the wealthy to the poor, tackling a very basic and often neglected human need while also reducing waste. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m8odGPmvzo Ashoka video intro] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DefLzB46ZfE longer video]. | ||
[http://conferences.ted.com/TEDIndia/ TEDIndia] Ever since founding the first truly effective ambulance service in India, [http://blog.ted.com/2010/10/15/fellows-friday-with-shaffi-mather Shaffi Mather] has been hooked on social enterprises. He's gone on to set up inclusive high-quality schools, support small-scale dairy farming, and is now launching a bribe-fighting business. [http://www.ted.com/talk/shaffi_mather_a_new_way_to_fight_corruption.html video]. | [http://conferences.ted.com/TEDIndia/ TEDIndia] Ever since founding the first truly effective ambulance service in India, [http://blog.ted.com/2010/10/15/fellows-friday-with-shaffi-mather Shaffi Mather] has been hooked on social enterprises. He's gone on to set up inclusive high-quality schools, support small-scale dairy farming, and is now launching a bribe-fighting business. [http://www.ted.com/talk/shaffi_mather_a_new_way_to_fight_corruption.html video]. | ||
Revision as of 18:33, 24 July 2012
This is a new page. Pls send content to pmmckerc@ucsc.edu
Indian Eco-heroes, Amit Jethwa and [http://www.junglees.org/pdmajhi.html P.D. Majhi, killed by poachers are part of a larger and disturbing trend/history.
Eco WALK the Talk is a social enterprise environmental website with an Asia focus.
Popularly known as the "Clothing Man", social entrepreneur Anshu Gupta created a mass movement for recycling and reusing tons of waste material by establishing a culture of sustained donations from urban, wealthy India and its impoverished rural areas. His organization, GOONJ.., has a mechanism for second-hand clothes and goods to pass from the wealthy to the poor, tackling a very basic and often neglected human need while also reducing waste. Ashoka video intro and longer video.
TEDIndia Ever since founding the first truly effective ambulance service in India, Shaffi Mather has been hooked on social enterprises. He's gone on to set up inclusive high-quality schools, support small-scale dairy farming, and is now launching a bribe-fighting business. video.
