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Standard & Poor’s launched its S&P U.S. Carbon Efficient Index, designed to measure the performance of large cap U.S. companies operating with a low carbon emissions footprint. The index, which currently has 362 companies gleaned from the S&P 500, are selected using calculations from Trucost Plc, an environmental data gathering organization. Link

A video from Nuru International– a 501(c)(3) organization with the mission of implementing innovative and collaborative solutions to end extreme poverty in rural communities throughout the world.

via Economist’s View: Today’s world hunger crisis is unprecedentedly severe and requires urgent measures. Nearly one billion people are trapped in chronic hunger – perhaps 100 million more than two years ago. Spain is taking global leadership in combating hunger by inviting world leaders to Madrid in late January to move beyond words to action.… Continue reading Jeff Sachs On A Breakthrough Against Hunger

According to The Chronicle, S.F.O. has partnered with 3Degrees, a San Francisco-based offsets firm that invests in clean-energy and carbon-reduction projects. The airport is supplying the kiosks and putting $163,000 into the program — and while the prices from are yet to be determined, a 3Degrees official told The Chronicle that offsetting a trip to… Continue reading San Francisco International Airport offering carbon offsets for those who wish to counter the greenhouse-gas emissions from their trip

From reader Sarah: Please join this effort by sharing this StopPovertyNow.org movement with your readers. Consider: â–º One billion people live on less than $1 a day â–º One-in-five people live without adequate water or food â–º 26,000 children die each day from preventable causes You will join a worldwide movement to Stop Poverty Now.… Continue reading StopPovertyNow.org , a Grameen Foundation initiative to spread awareness of global poverty and bring and end to this global epidemic

Insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) are a simple, cost-effective way to fight malaria and are distributed to pregnant women and children in Kenya, often for free. But when Noboru Minakawa of the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Nagasaki, Japan, and colleagues surveyed villages along Lake Victoria, they found people were using the nets for fishing or drying… Continue reading Unintended Consequences: Malaria Nets Used For Fishing

A guest post from Rishabh Kaul at Source Pilani: Inside Goenka Public School, which is situated in the bustling centre of Pilani village, is housed one of India’s fastest growing rural BPO’s. Welcome to the world of Source Pilani. A brainchild of L K MaheswarI (the current Vice Chancellor of BITS Pilani), who convinced the… Continue reading To create socio-economic value for rural and corporate worlds through empowered outsourcing

Otherwise known as “charitable checking,” or “giving while living,” donor-advised funds are quickly becoming the most popular way to invest social capital. Link

Congrats to the Lewis Center for Social Entrepreneurship at Babson! Babson College has received a $10.8 million gift from the Lewis Charitable Foundation for the establishment of an institute to support teaching, research, and outreach in social entrepreneurship. The Lewis Institute at Babson College will develop leaders, create knowledge, and grow new enterprises to solve… Continue reading Lewis Center for Social Entrepreneurship at Babson