The Weekend Entrepreneur: DARPA and Socially Responsible Shopping

by Nathaniel Whittemore · 2009-07-26 23:57:00 UTC
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Can the Military Find the Answer to Alternative Energy?: A really interesting post from BusinessWeek about the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (who gave us the internet) and their new goal of alternative fuels.

HOW TO: Use the Web for Socially Responsible Shopping: Mashable puts together one of it's cool lists for socially-conscious shopping, featuring some of my favs like Knowmore.org and Good Guide.

To profit or not to profit: resources from the field: REDF's Carla Javits point social entrepreneurs trying to answer the for profit vs. nonprofit question to some good resources.

Nathaniel Whittemore is the founder of Assetmap. Previously he was the founding director of the Northwestern University Center for Global Engagement.
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