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Dec 17, 2012 |
Conscious, Fledglings, Seattle
Two moms have taken on a global problem, trash. Rebecca Rockefeller and Liesl Clark developed and launched a simple-to-use, colorful web app to help us reuse the stuff that is no...
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Dec 17, 2012 |
Conscious, Fledglings, Investment
The Washington Global Health Fund awarded two grants to two Washington-based companies making an impact across the “bottom billion” around the world. $120,000 was...
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Dec 17, 2012 |
Conscious, Fledglings
A big THANK YOU to all the applicants for the Winter 2013 program. It is amazing the breadth of “conscious” ideas that exist around the world. That breadth was...
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Oct 19, 2012 |
Conscious, Demo Day, Fledglings, Impact Hub, Seattle, Startup Ecoystem
The past month in Seattle has seen an incredible surge of efforts around sustainable, conscious, impactful business. Showcased across four events, more than four dozen emerging,...
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Sep 24, 2012 |
Conscious, Demo Day, Fledglings, Seattle
Seven inspiring companies with the potential impact to improve the lives of billions… to save millions of lives… to make it easy to share and reuse the planet’s...
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Sep 12, 2012 |
Conscious, Demo Day, Fledglings, Impact Hub, Seattle, Startup Ecoystem
This month begins a tsunami of social entrepreneurship: #SocEnt Weekend, Fledge “Demo Day“, and Social Innovation Fast Pitch (SIFP)...
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Sep 5, 2012 |
Conscious, Fledglings
The mobility of Americans over the past six decades has led to huge cultural changes, with the norm now for Americans to move every five or so years, and with those moves, to have...
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Sep 5, 2012 |
Conscious, Fledglings
Americans gave nearly $300 billion to charities last year (2011). That is almost $1,000 per person, and surveys show almost 90% of that giving was by individuals, with those...
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Aug 27, 2012 |
Conscious, Fledglings
I want to live in a town with a thriving downtown core, with good restaurants, a great bakery, nice shops, and a comforting grocery store. I want to live in a community which...
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Aug 27, 2012 |
Conscious, Fledglings
Living in our comfortable homes in America, boiling a pot of water is as easy as turning a dial on the stove. We forget that for billions of people around the world, heating water...
