Workplace Safety
What is right for workers
Cutting Out the Middlemen: A Solution to the Dangers of Low-Cost Production

Finance
Financing real estate renovation
THE BIG FIX ... The Real Estate Deal That Could Change the Future of Everything

Sustainable Technology
Growing food
Cure Greenhouse - true green ... greenhouse design that makes sustainability realistic

Peter Burgess Connections ... LinkedIn
Bob Blain
Bob Blain ... Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville ... Greater St. Louis Area ... Higher Education

Peter Burgess Connections ... LinkedIn
Iman Bibars
Iman Bibars ... Global Diaspora Leader at Ashoka ... Egypt ... Civic & Social Organization

Social Investment
The Scarab Funds
The Scarab Funds specialize in social impact investing. They are based in Phildelphia and invest worldwide through several funds.

Social Entrepreneurs
Social Business
From Dr Iman Bibars ... Why the Arab awakening depends on social entrepreneurs ... Social enterprise is naturally democratic and plays an important role in finding solutions to the social upheaval of the Middle East

Peter Burgess Connections ... LinkedIn
Arthur Wood
Arthur Wood ... Founding Partner Total Impact Advisors & Chair World Sanitation Financing Facility ... Geneva Area, Switzerland ... Philanthropy

Initiatives
Economic Policy Institute
Launching of the 'Inequality.is' website and lets fix it initiative

Profit Maximization
Hidden in the payment process
Christopher Elliott ... The dangers of dynamic currency conversion (DCC)

Profit Maximization
Hidden in the payment process
Christopher Elliott ... Is This Travel 'Convenience' or Just Another Scam?

Metrics
Measuring Sustainable Value
Measuring Sustainable Value ... Sustainable Leadership Forum ... Peter Burgess: True Value Metrics ... November 5, 2010

Development
The development process
Does technical assistance need a makeover? by Rebecca Simson ... Guardian Professional, with comment by Peter Burgess

Health ... Malaria
Malaria and Irrigation
Impact of irrigation on malaria in Africa: paddies paradox ... Agriculture's impact on malaria ... Caspar van Vark unpicks the complex link between irrigation systems and mosquitoes in Africa

Management
The Business Model Canvas
The text of the business model canvas and the single sheet pdf

Country ... USA
History
How Would American Indians Teach US History? By Four Arrows and Barbara Mann, Peter Lang Publishers | Book Excerpt

Events
Events in New York
This may be a way to get news of events before they have happened ... run by Miles Rose of SiliconAlley.com

Banking
Mobile Payments
iZettle launches m-payments service in Mexico ... and IZettle gets a big strategic investment from Banco Santander

Peter Burgess Connections ... LinkedIn
Miles Rose
Miles Rose ... out of the box thinker, accountant, dream bigger with Miles ... Greater New York City Area ... Marketing and Advertising

Organizations
Listing of B Corporations
This is a large list of B Corp organizations ... very interesting with many useful links

Initiative
FSG and Collective Impact
FSG ... Leading a Backbone Organization for Collective Impact ... a workshop that took place in

Metrics
FSG and Backbone Effectiveness Indicators
FSG and Greater Cincinnati Foundation ... Backbone Effectiveness: 27 Indicators ... not one of which is capable of meaningful quantification

Initiatives
FSG and Collective Impact
What is Collective Impact?

Initiatives
FSG and Collective Impact
Collective Impact ... Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, yet the social sector remains focused on the isolated intervention of individual organizations.

Initiatives
FSG and Collective Impact
Channeling Change: Making Collective Impact Work ... FSG / Fay Hanleybrown, John Kania and Mark Kramer

Financial Innovation
Mobile Money
Why is the Progress of Mobile Money so Gradual and Patchy?

Peter Burgess Connections ... LinkedIn
Joy Tang
Joy Tang ... Whole system design & collaboration strategist. ICT4D Experimenter ... San Francisco Bay Area ... Information Technology and Services

Peter Burgess Connections ... LinkedIn
Amrote Abdella
Amrote Abdella ... Director, Venture Capital & Start-ups, Microsoft Africa Initiatives ... Kenya ... Venture Capital & Private Equity

Peter Burgess Connections ... LinkedIn
Jacqueline Musiitwa
Jacqueline Musiitwa Lawyer, government relations professional Greater New York City AreaLaw Practice

Sustainability
Handling pushback
PDF ... Handling Objections: A Professional’s Guide to Overcoming Objections to Sustainability Adoption and Implementation

Economic Reform
Capitalism 2.0
Michael Townsend and Brad Zarnett ... The Capitalism 2.0 Project: A Better Model Means a Better Life

Book Publishers
Contact Information
The book publishers and their various imprints ... mainly in New York

Country ... USA
Economy
America: The Next Woolworth's? ... The situation the United States finds itself in today unfortunately is very similar to claims made by Woolworth's executives in the 1960s.

Big Data
Making good use of Big Data
Amy Zalman ... Power doesn’t lie in gathering data but in analysing it

Banking and Finance
Bankers and Gangsters
Matt Taibbi ... Gangster Bankers: Too Big to Jail ... How HSBC hooked up with drug traffickers and terrorists. And got away with it

Corporate Structure
The B Corporation
The Benefit Corporation ... 5 Best Companies for Overall Impact from The B Corp Best for the World miratelinc.com ... a Burgess Comment

Peter Burgess Connections ... LinkedIn
Elyse Vecchiarelli
Elyse Vecchiarelli ... Writer and Social Media Marketing Administrator at Miratel Solutions ... Woodbridge, Ontario, Canada ... Telecommunications

Banking and Finance
The Rating Agencies
Matt Taibbi ... The Last Mystery of the Financial Crisis ... It's long been suspected that ratings agencies like Moody's and Standard & Poor's helped trigger the meltdown. A new trove of embarrassing documents shows how they did it

Banking and Finance
Rigging the System
Matt Taibbi ... Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever ... The Illuminati were amateurs. The second huge financial scandal of the year reveals the real international conspiracy: There's no price the big banks can't fix

Peter Burgess Connections ... LinkedIn
Sandy Tung
Sandy Tung ... Independent Consultant at Global Energy Initiative ... New York, New York ... Renewables & Environment

Metrics
Carbon Footprint
ENERGY & CARBON MANAGEMENT ... Hotel giants join forces to count carbon consistently ... Hotel Carbon Measurement Initiative (HCMI) methodology

Metrics
Carbon Footprint
The Hotel Carbon Measurement Initiative (HCMI)

Economics
Global Outlook
EIU Global Outlook published June 2013

Health ... Malaria
Mapping the Data
IRIN ... New malaria tool to help track insecticide resistance

Metrics
IRIS
Addition to the IRIS methodology ... from the Land Conservation Metrics Working Group ... June 2013

Training
How to create a Kindle Book
About a webinar by Jim Edwards ... Create Your First (or Next) Kindle Book in Just 5 Days With My Personal Help & Coaching ... and how to sell $147 of online consultancy

Technology ... Big Data
IDELT
About GDELT: The Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone

Peter Burgess Connections ... LinkedIn
Ian Brooks
Ian Brooks ... Director of Health Sciences - National Center for Supercomputing Applications ... Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area ... Higher Education

Country ... USA
Technology
Presidential Innovation Fellows Whose LinkedIn Profiles Would Put Yours to Shame

Technology
Computer history
Absolutely amazing progress over the last fifty years.