Happy Earth Day everyone, here are 10 great documentaries that you can watch for free. Enjoy.
I highly recommend listening to this interview with one of the founders of Kiva, Premal Shah. Just launch is his advice for entrepreneurs wanting to start a company. Check it out here at Mixergy.com, this site has loads of great interviews with entrepreneurs all for FREE.
“No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.”
- Winston Churchill, 1947 A.D.
On Tuesday I went to a great seminar on Corporate Social Responsibility and Social Entrepreneurship. I will provide a more comprehensive write up as soon as I receive the slides for the day but one thing I noticed was that the logos on the Slides and websites of both Swedfund (a government run Swedish risk capital fund concentrating on ethical investments in the developing world) and Diferencia (a consultancy and training firm specialising in sustainable development) had flipped the world map upside down. This made me think a lot about our perspective on the world. Below is the 273 Map flipped, you can see our investors in red and the entrepreneurs in green. To me this view of the world presents a great opportunity, what do you think?
This also reminded me of a video, that I have posted before on a different blog about turning problems upside down to find opportunities, I think it is worth posting again - enjoy.
This is a such a simple idea, which is why I love it! Hoongle is a search engine powered by Google (this means if you use it, you will get the exact same results as you would using Google) that will donate 20 grains of rice to schools in the developing world though the UN Food Program ‘Fill the Cup‘ for every search you make with them. If you want to find out a little more, check out the New York Times Article.
So 273sters let’s help them out, I encourage all of you to use them as your default search engine. If you are using the Firefox Browser follow this link and install it as your search box, if you are using Google Chrome simply go to settings ->options and make http://www3.hoongle.com your default search engine, if your using Internet Explorer - change to Firefox or Chrome :-). Also, to go to the Hoongle home page, you can follow the link from the very top bar of 273.
