In December, Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper announced that Denver is the first North American city and second city globally to be chosen by Ashoka as a “Change Your City” location.  This project, first created in Dublin, Ireland, works to raise awareness and get people involved in change-making. The video below, created by our friends at [...]

The second meetup in our series on Sustainable Enterprise Models was designed in response to questions coming out of the first one, namely:

Why are we getting together to create another meetup?
What are we going to try to accomplish together?
What is the language of sustainable enterprise, and how can we ensure we have a similar frame [...]

An in-depth report on research into sustainable economic development just got posted at nuPOLIS.  The rigor and cutting edge research that is the hallmark of this network is evident on this seminal work.
Here’s the summary:

In a new report, Sustainable Economic Development, nuPOLIS partner James Nixon details the comprehensive approaches that that cities and regions are using [...]

We’ve been party to lots of discussion about “who owns what” in the social enterprise space, from metrics to concepts, and from online profiles to the intellectual property within the discussions.  And frankly, they have all been a little bit depressing.
Today, “The Ownership of Conversation” came across the tweetstream.  Enjoy these out-takes:
So, if you think [...]

Reminder: Join the meetup tonight.
Here’s a summary of what to expect, straight from the Meetup description:

Check out #SoCapCO on twitter to track the discussion of all things related to social enterprise in Colorado.  The hashtag’s origin starts at the SoCap conference, but also implies lots of aspects we like about the social enterprise movement, with the multiple meanings for social capital, and the “co” representing Colorado, collaboration, collective and lots [...]

Topping a ten-day period of sustainability-inspired thinking pervading economic reporting in the gray-flannel-media, the old gray lady reports (PW req’d) that French President Nicolas Sarkozy initiated a shift in how the French government reports economic activity (story tip to three of favorite tweeters: @NurtureGirl, @kevindoylejones and @byrnegreen).
President Nicolas Sarkozy told the French national statistics agency [...]

When The Wall St. Journal Online covers the growing complementary currency movement in the same week that The Economist talks about triple-bottom-line values encroaching on traditional investing, it appears that maybe, just maybe, the consciousness around money is finally changing.
In the most recent installment, WSJ’s video report covers a wide range of popular currency initiatives, [...]

There were many great discussions at the three-day Social Capital Markets (SoCap) conference this week at Fort Mason in San Francisco.  We’ll keep reporting and referring to these in the days, weeks and months to come.  Among their many accomplishments was a mastery of social media, including a dense twitter feed, viewable at #socap09, as [...]

August was another fascinating month over at nuPOLIS.  A quick survey around the network reveals a peek from behind the scenes of the Chicago climate change planning process, a redux of a piece on Ethical Travel drawing on the first round of feedback, and a look at why Detroit is a hotbed for school reform.