Category Archives: Conference coverage

Video blog series leading up to SoCap: What’s Next in Social Enterprise?

By Amie Vaccaro | Published: November 28, 2010

For this year’s SoCap conference, I created a series of video interviews and posted them with commentary to TriplePundit. I thought I’d post the videos here. Rachael Chong, Founder & CEO of Catchafire Tim O’Shea, CEO of CleanFish Nigel Waller, CEO of Movirtu

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XS Project is creating products from waste and creating jobs in Indonesia

By ecofrenzy | Published: August 17, 2009

More than 500,000 people in Indonesia attempt to make a living collecting and reselling garbage.  Artist Ann Wizer lived above a colony of these trashpickers and inquired about what waste they could not sell: plastic drink pouches and other non-biodegradable plastics.   Wizer began purchasing these scraps from the trashpickers and using them to create bags, [...]

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Greener By Design: A Metrics Driven Approach to Sustainable Business

By ecofrenzy | Published: May 24, 2009

Sustainability is losing its meaning to me these days, as I hear it everywhere. At today’s Greener By Design conference, leaders from Wal-Mart, Sustainable Minds and Clear Standards discuss how they are translating the concept of “sustainability” into success metrics and tools that drive sustainable packaging, design and environmental impact reporting.

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Greener By Design: What’s Driving Green Design?

By ecofrenzy | Published: May 24, 2009

When does green design become more than just a “nice to have?” What is driving the many advancements in environmentally friendly product design? A panel discussion at today’s Greener By Design conference brought together experts on carbon regulation, product toxicity, and sustainable product certification to discuss.

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Greener by Design: Rethinking Waste with Plastiki, the Plastic Boat

By ecofrenzy | Published: May 24, 2009

“Nobody is as smart as everybody. We have all the solutions we need. Yes our problems are big. But if we’re all working together, now that becomes a movement,” David de Rothschild explained at today’s Greener by Design conference. De Rothschild is the founder of Adventure Ecology and his latest adventure is inspired by the [...]

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How Wal-Mart Measures and Manages Its Social and Environmental Impact

By ecofrenzy | Published: May 11, 2009

If you are trying to do good in the world (as opposed to just making money), how do you know if you’re having an impact? How do you measure and manage that good? The recent Global Social Venture Competition culminated with a full-day symposium on Social Entrepreneurship. Sara Olsen, founding partner of SVT Group and [...]

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The White Dog Cafe: A Study of Social Business and Mission-Aligned Exit

By ecofrenzy | Published: April 24, 2009

How can social businesses be scaled so that they maintain and enhance their mission after an IPO, acquisition, or any other transition? Judy Wicks, founder of White Dog Cafe, told her inspiring story during the final conversation at the Investors’s Circle conference this week: The White Dog started as a coffee and muffin take-out shop [...]

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How Can We Make Impact Investing Mainstream?

By ecofrenzy | Published: April 23, 2009

Impact investing, or investing for social and/or environmental impact as well as financial return, has become more and more popular, and will hopefully become the norm rather than the exception. At the Investors’ Circle conference, a panel of experts discussed impact investing. Amit Bouri, of the Monitor Institute, explained the findings of a recent report, [...]

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Live from Investors' Circle: The Prospects for Social Enterprise

By ecofrenzy | Published: April 22, 2009

Tuesday’s Investors’ Circle conference in San Francisco kicked off with a panel discussion on the prospects for social enterprise, bringing in voices from policy, academia, journalism and socially responsible investing (SRI). Jerry Engel from Berkeley’s entrepreneurship program, who served as moderator, voiced the opinion that social investing is mainstream and all ventures are social ventures. [...]

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Investing and Entrepreneurship in Water at Investors' Circle

By ecofrenzy | Published: April 21, 2009

Water is fast becoming top of mind, joining oil as a precious resource, and carbon as something companies ought to pay attention to. A panel of water investors and experts discussed opportunities in water at the Investors’ Circle conference. My takeaway from the conversation is that water is a difficult (read: fragmented, inefficient, and complex) [...]

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