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Social Innovations

Skoll World Forum 2010 Kicks Off in Oxford

The Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship kicks off today in Oxford, United Kingdom. I have been lucky enough to be living in Oxford since September, and now feel even more fortunate to be part of the social media team for this exciting event.

For coverage from past years, check out posts from other SSIR writers from 2007 and 2009.

This year’s theme is “catalysing collaboration for large scale change.” While “collaboration” seems to be a logical operating choice for social entrepreneurs... (continue reading this blog post)

By Grace Augustine | Apr. 14, 2010
 

Global Issues

Sustainable Living: Becoming an Unconsumer

A new buzzword has surfaced thanks to the recession: unconsumption.

Unconsumption describes the now savvy and respectable trend of reducing, reusing, and recycling. It's a conscious consumerist mentality. In other words, it's the opposite of the buy-now-throw-away-tomorrow culture that permeated most of the 90s... (continue reading this blog post)

By Halle Tecco | 3 | Apr. 7, 2010
 

Water

The Water Cycle with a Human Twist

Remember what your middle school science teacher told you about the water cycle? Water evaporates, condensates in clouds, travels across the land, precipitates as it encounters land elevations, run in torrents, penetrates the grounds, sits in undergrounds or surface lakes and eventually flows towards the ocean.

When you hit grad school and you're determined to dig up the story yourself by putting together all the pieces of a very fragmented system, here's what you learn the water cycle really looks like... (continue reading this blog post)

By Ashish Jhina and Bernadette Clavier | Apr. 1, 2010
 

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