Archive for 'Social Enterprise' Category
Making things ten times cheaper
Posted by Sharon 8 May 2010Something to ponder for the social sector (thanks to Clay Shirky):
“Dr. Amy Smith is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, where she runs the Development Lab, or D-Lab, a lab organized around simple and cheap engineering solutions for the developing world.
Among the rules of thumb she offers for […]
Today’s Social Enterprise Ideas
Posted by Sharon 2 February 2010Ideas for this week.
Check out Fast Company’s list of the 5 Social Capitalists for 2010 and their businesses. From a number of sources I am getting the message that mobile phones and the accompanying connectivity are life changing in rural areas, where landlines are non-existent.
Also check out Better World Books which recycles books.
Nurturing social entrepreneurs & enterprises
Posted by Sharon 31 December 2009I’ve just finished a year long Salon for Social Entrepreneurs, in conjunction with Cheryl Kernot from the Centre for Social Impact, Julian Noel from Aware Business and an amazing group of existing and budding social entrepreneurs and supporters. We’ve learned a lot about what’s required to set up and build social enterprises and there’s lots […]
Do we really need abundance?
Posted by Sharon 29 July 2009A good take on the abundance vs sufficiency dilemma from writer and personal life coach Bruce Elkin here.
I agree with a lot of his sentiments and am working to ensure that we reduce our family and company footprint from its current level of 2.4 planets to something approaching 1.
It’s hard to avoid the lure of […]
Vote 1 Earth
Posted by Sharon 26 March 2009I must be one of the many people who haven’t yet met Todd Sampson via the Gruen Transfer, but as of next week I will be an avid viewer. Tonight I listened and watched teary eyed, to his story about the growth of the Earth Hour movement and now I’m all inspired to find other […]
Wisps of Ideas
Posted by Sharon 25 February 2009One summer’s day at Chinamans beach, I watched amazed as tiny wisps of nearly nothing swirled together to become a significant cloud. I’d never noticed a cloud appear from nothing before and marvelled at the process.
This metaphor neatly describes my experience over the past six months. From a wisp of an idea last year, sixteen […]
Spring and passion is in the air
Posted by Sharon 25 September 2008It’s spring, it’s passion month and I’ve just returned from the XL Entrepreneur Business School in Bali. What did I learn - lots!
First, you cannot achieve anything amazing on your own. The entrepreneurs who wanted to “own” all the ideas and way their business was going to run, has much smaller ideas that those who […]