Social Issues

Magazine articles on social issues such as crime, the environment, abortion, wealth distribution, drugs, etc.

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Fast Company December 2008	High Point: Recreating Nature With A Natural-Water Channel At High Point in Seattle -- a green community -- market rate condos and townhouses mix with affordable housing funding largely by Enterprise.
Fast Company December 2008 Jennifer Vilaga	Mercy Corps: The Bank of Banks The Oregon-based antipoverty group Mercy Corps bought a struggling Balinese bank and reopened it as a wholesale outfit exclusively serving microfinance institutions.
Fast Company December 2008 Jennifer Vilaga	The Institute for OneWorld Health: Not-for-profit Drugmaking The Institute for OneWorld Health is on the verge of proving that its no-profit/no-loss model can work.
Fast Company December 2008 Sara D. Anderson	Husk Power Systems: Rice-Fired Electricity University of Virginia business students Chip Ransler and Manoj Sinha recently devised a way to give people in India their own form of energy independence by turning rice husks into biogas, which fuels mini power plants.
Inc. December 2008 Tess Taylor	Going Carbon Neutral These companies all fund projects certified by the Voluntary Carbon Standard or the Gold Standard.
U.S. Banker December 2008 Michael Dumiak	Climate Change Prompts Strategic Thinking Even given the daily fluctuations of ongoing and systemic world financial woes, climate change remains a front-burner issue -- and a new political administration means that Washington's stance toward that issue will change, too.
InternetNews November 25, 2008 David Needle	Merrill Lynch Goes Ga Ga for Green Will "clean tech" displace IT as the darling of the next technology revolution?
Information Today November 24, 2008	MODERRO Introduces Turnkey "Cloud" Computer The Xpack Internet Computer is an integrated (hardware, operating system, and web management) green solution for the cloud desktop in libraries.
InternetNews November 21, 2008 Andy Patrizio	Dell Finds Small Tweaks Bring Gigantic Savings A little change here, a little there, and suddenly, Dell has spared its customers a collective $3 billion.
Entrepreneur December 2008 Lindsay Holloway	Meeting the Demand for Green Earth-conscious franchises attract like-minded entrepreneurs.
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