Author Archive:
Mark Campanale
Accelerating the accelerators: SoCap pre-event
SoCap2013 brought together 1,600 of the world’s keenest and most inspirational social entrepreneurs, philanthropists and social investors for a week of ideas sharing and deal making. Founded in San Francisco, SoCap is an exploration of …
Slow Investing: How your money can transform the world
The ten expert authors of Slow Investing: How your money can transform the world may have been consciously writing their treatises on the new uses of money just as the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ movement was …
Carbon Tracker aims to avert carbon bubble risks
As governments convene for their annual climate change talks in Bonn, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is just about to pass the symbolically important 400ppm level for the first time ever [1]. …
How can accelerators help? Reflections from SoCap2012
The opening ceremony at SoCap2012 came alive when five young entrepreneurs stood up and pitched their businesses, Dragon’s Den-style, to over 1,500 conference attendees. The initiatives included the Kytabu Project, a low-cost computer tablet that …
Bring on the social stock exchange
Stagecoach Theatre Arts Schools plc, Parry People Movers, Good Energy plc, Radicle Projects, Eaga plc and Adilli are all social businesses that have chosen to ‘go public’ and be listed on a stock exchange. The …
What about the assets?
In April, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation created a $100 million programme to support research intended to encourage policies aimed at reducing the threat of global warming (see p27). Eric Heitz, president of the Energy …
