Socially Conscious Investing

Social Impact, Fair Trade, Business in Africa Grows with Liberty and Justice

The only fair trade factory in Africa is saving lives while bringing business to Africa, the new continent for outsourced savings. Chid Liberty, the co-founder with Adam Butlein, of the first fair trade factory in Africa, shares the success of…

Latino Community Benefits by Valoramas Discount Shopping and More.

Push play to hear Alejandra Garza share the evolution of Valoramas.com, an online shopping community that gives back to strategic community organizations serving the Latino Community. Valoramas is a Hispanic culture community where members can shop and enjoy discounts and…

Social Entrepreneurship Brings Sanitation to Urban Slums in Extreme Poverty

David Auerbach from Sanergy, a social enterprise in Kenya that has been identified and supported by Eleos Foundation, has grown into an opportunity for impact investors. Saner.gy builds sustainable sanitation in the urban slums of Nairobi, Kenya, Africa. So you…

What is Renewable Green Energy: The Facts, Fiction Behind Its Success.

Craig Shields discusses green, renewable energy, the facts and fiction behind its success. There are five basic technologies in renewable, clean energy: solar, wind, bio mass, geothermal and hydro-kinetics or hydrology. Craig Shields, co-founder of 2GreenEnergy.com, combines his 30 years…

Fight Extreme Poverty: Outsource Data and IT Enabled Services

Outsourcing data and IT Enabled Services can fight extreme poverty by educating and employing youth from impoverished areas of developing countries. Jeremy Hockenstein of Digital Data Divide (DDD) shares how they have successfully educated and lifted over 1500 youth in…

Solar Renewable Energy Saves Nonprofits, Provides Investment Tax Credit

Megan Birney of Community Environmental Council (CEC) shares the secrets of how to provide nonprofits with the benefits of solar energy and save money while providing investors with Investment Tax Credits (ITC) and tax equity. The Community Environmental Council (CEC)…

MIT Enterprise Forum: Education, Connections to Business Mentors, Incubator, Accelerator

Peter Hartman, director of the MIT Enterprise Forum Central Coast, shares the events and resources available to entrepreneurs and businesses on the Central Coast California. The MIT Enterprise Forum has 28 chapters worldwide. Over $2 trillion and 26,000 companies have…

UN Code REDD: Combat Global Warming, Conserve Wildlife, Build Jobs.

Mike Korchinsky of WildlifeWorks shares how the United Nations’ REDD initiative of carbon credits is helping build jobs, education and conserving wildlife while combating global warming. Wildlife Works‘ mission, Consumer Powered Conservation, is to harness the power of the global…

Vote Today to Address Healthcare and Safe Water for India’s Extreme Poverty.

Jim Villnueava of The Eleos Foundation shares how you can help save the lives of millions in India by voting for Healthpoint’s virtual medical clinics and safe water. Healthpoint is a virtual medical clinic that consists of four economically sustainable…

Smart Phone Birding App Makes Birdwatching/Bird Identification Easy.

Jeff Simeon shares his smart phone bird alerts system and app that will make wild birds identification easy and revolutionize birdwatching. A recent graduate from UCSB’s Bren School, Jeff Simeon earned a Master’s degree in Environmental Science and Management with…

Startup America Spawns Local Successful Entrepreneurship

Startup America shares how local empowerment for small business and entrepreneurs is successful. Startup America got its roots when, in January 2011, President Obama called on both the federal government and the private sector to dramatically increase the prevalence and…

Green Building: Recycled Compressed Straw Board Ranks High with USGBC.

Tim Evans of Stramit USA introduces the newest green building solution providing a negative carbon footprint along with a myriad of other construction and environmental benefits. Stramit USA, a company utilizing Stramit UK technology, has introduced green building construction board…

Global Women for Peace Empower a Better World by Connecting on the Phone.

Linda Higdon of the Global Room for Women shares the incredible women’s movement that connects and empowers women globally. Cultural differences that may involve female genital mutilation (female circumcision), the severe discipline of children, pre-teen motherhood and domestic violence find…

Crowdfunding: A New Twist for Funding Science and Inspiring Change

Crowdfunding is changing the way science communicates and gets funding. Dr. Jai Ranganathan and Dr. Jarrett Byrnes, two conservation scientists and ecologists, share their inspiration for SciFundChallenge, the new crowdfunding website for scientists. Although funding was the initial inspiration, the…

Fight Extreme Poverty: Bring Light on Earth Day with Unite-to-Light

Listen to how Unite-to-Light is fighting extreme poverty with LED solar-powered light. Unite-to-Light, an organization founded through the collaboration of Engineers without Borders and Nobel Prize Laureate at UCSB, manufactures and distributes a small ultra-bright LED solar-powered lamp worldwide to…