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Hard Data Leads to Big Money for Polluted Towns

Source International provides scientists and scientific tools to communities threatened by waste and pollution from natural-resource extraction. With the resulting data, communities been able to press for compensation.

Unreasonable InstituteJuly 18, 2014

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Making Sustainable Living Fun, Convenient, and Safe

One Earth Designs harnesses the sun to bring clean energy to three billion people who lack access to clean fuels. This product saves lives, reduces carbon emissions, saves time for women, and saves money for families.

Unreasonable MediaMarch 4, 2014

Career

How To Make Triple Bottom Line Work In The Real World

This week we felt it was time to get on with some work, and explore the principles that will underpin the business we (and you) are starting. Let's look at how to work toward your triple bottom line (and make it work in the real world).

BenandAndrewMarch 3, 2014

Career

How to Start an (Actual) Social Enterprise

As a social entrepreneur, are you constantly wrestling with pressures and trade-offs of building a company that holds high environmental and social standards? Read this post for 4 ways to create an actual social enterprise.

Nathaniel KolocFebruary 13, 2014

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Watch How This Entrepreneur is Solving the Water Crisis in South Africa

Once upon a time, Paseka was sitting on the toilet and had a “Eureka!” moment. We could be saving 72 Billion Gallons of water per year- the equivalent of 10,000 Olympic swimming pools.

Unreasonable InstituteDecember 31, 2013

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How To Marry Meaning to Profit: Why Doing the Right Thing Matters

Every day you vote with your dollars. Are you voting for the leaders who will shape the kind of future you want to live in?

L. Hunter LovinsOctober 31, 2013

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Sometimes Life Throws You a Curveball (it’s how we react that counts)

Watch how Eduardo chose to react when life threw him a major curveball. It's a story of what is possible, it's a story of how impenetrable the human spirit is, it's a story about resilience in the face of adversity and it's a story about life.

Daniel EpsteinOctober 29, 2013

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Why the Key to Stopping Deforestation Resides in Plastic

Over 80% of Kenya's forests are now gone. Watch this video and see how one entrepreneur is changing the game for her country, and potentially for deforestation across Africa.

Unreasonable InstituteOctober 8, 2013

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How India’s Trash is 1 Woman’s Fortune

Watch this talk to learn the story of how one woman is cleaning up the streets of India while creating hundreds of jobs for the most marginalized people on the sub-continent.

Unreasonable InstituteAugust 15, 2013

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This Company Makes the Impossible Possible — Like Making Toilets Sexy

17 Triggers believes that if marketing can trigger people to buy cigarettes and beer, it can also inspire the masses in Pakistan to buy a toilet, Cambodian farmers to increase their crop yields, and Zambian children to stay in school. Watch this talk to see how.

Unreasonable InstituteAugust 14, 2013

2013 Voyage@SeaEpisodeTechnology

Prakti Puts Their Stoves to the Test in Myanmar (Ep.6)

To gain empathy and insight into Myanmar's market, we follow Prakti Stoves founder, Mouhsine Serrar, as he visits a rural village in Yangoon and lets a local restaurant owner put his stove to the test.

Unreasonable MediaAugust 14, 2013

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Interview with IBM’s Head of Global Opportunities

A 35-year veteran of the IBM Corporation speaks on corporate social responsibility, bends in the road, and turning lectures into trees.

Unreasonable MediaJune 28, 2013

2013 Voyage@SeaEnergyInterview

Head of Global Opportunities at IBM On Corporate Sustainability

Interview with Head of Global Opportunities at IBM shares her view on sustainability from the perspective of a large corporation.

Unreasonable MediaMarch 7, 2013

2013 Voyage@SeaEnergyHealth

Why not become the first company to manufacture a Solar Rechargeable hearing aid?

Why not become the largest employer of hearing Impaired people in the world? Why not manufacture affordable hearing aids? Tendekayi Katsiga of Solar Ear shares his unreasonable journey.

Tendekayi KatsigaJanuary 19, 2013

Energy

Going Solar Is Our Next Big Evolutionary Step

Danny Kennedy is the Founder of Sungevity. In this Unreasonable post he poses why going solar is mankind’s next step forward and why the solar bandwagon is worth jumping on.

Danny KennedyOctober 22, 2012

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Interviewing Hunter Lovins (TIME Magazine Hero)

To really solve big problems, it's got to be your day job. Tweet This Quote…

Unreasonable MediaAugust 31, 2012

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Eradicating Extreme Poverty In Kenya

This entrepreneur is all-too-familiar with the reality of what growing up in poverty in Africa is – now her venture is set out change this reality for the next generation of Kenyans.

Unreasonable InstituteFebruary 19, 2012

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College Grad Struggling To Find Employment? This Venture Can Help You (And The Environment)

Watch this 2012 Unreasonable Institute entrepreneur's capstone talk about how his venture is bridging the gap between what you are taught in school and what employers want by providing real-world opportunities to learn by doing.

Unreasonable InstituteFebruary 19, 2012