Alex Goldmark

The Secret to Cheaper, Greener Local Beer

The Secret to Cheaper, Greener Local Beer

A Minnesota microbrewery has a secret ingredient that makes beer cheaper, cleaner, and more local.

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Groupon Green? How Sustainable Businesses Are Using Daily Deals

Groupon Green? How Sustainable Businesses Are Using Daily Deals

With millions of emails showcasing new products, daily deals could be a boon for green business. But it's not shaping up that way ... yet.

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Pay for Success: How a New Kind of Bond Could Save Taxpayer Money and Improve Social Services

Pay for Success: How a New Kind of Bond Could Save Taxpayer Money and Improve Social Services

The White House has big plans for a new idea to funnel private money into social work.

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With a False Start on Paterno's Death, SEO Journalism Fails Again

With a False Start on Paterno's Death, SEO Journalism Fails Again

How the need for speed in modern media constantly results in huge errors.

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A Haitian Bank Thrives After the Quake by Helping the Poor

A Haitian Bank Thrives After the Quake by Helping the Poor

After the quake, Fonkoze stepped up and took deposits, doling cash out as remittances—all the while keeping the hole in its vault hush-hush.

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Two Years After the Quake, Haiti in Photos

Two Years After the Quake, Haiti in Photos

A visual tour of living and rebuilding in Haiti.

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Reconstruction Zone: Chronicling Haiti's Post-Quake Struggles

Reconstruction Zone: Chronicling Haiti's Post-Quake Struggles

“Nobody faced what we have faced here in Haiti.”

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Twelve California Companies Seize the Moment to Become Benefit Corporations

Twelve California Companies Seize the Moment to Become Benefit Corporations

CEOs rushed to be first in line to become California Benefit Corporations.

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Social(ist) Impact Investing: Why Ecuador Invested $500,000 in a Brooklyn Startup

Social(ist) Impact Investing: Why Ecuador Invested $500,000 in a Brooklyn Startup

The next hip tea drink comes from the Amazon, funded by developing nation socialist venture capitalists.

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One Percent Foundation Unleashes Next Generation of Philanthropists

One Percent Foundation Unleashes Next Generation of Philanthropists

A modern twist on old-fashioned giving circles takes microphilanthropy macro.

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The Un-Daily Deal Site That Wants You to Donate for Discounts

The Un-Daily Deal Site That Wants You to Donate for Discounts

The Mutual is a socially conscious business that mixes self-interest and eco-philanthropy.

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The Year in Social Innovation: Seven Key Trends

The Year in Social Innovation: Seven Key Trends

GOOD Business tracks the seven big social innovation trends in 2011.

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To Perfect Green Manufacturing, Get Your Hands DIRTT-y

To Perfect Green Manufacturing, Get Your Hands DIRTT-y

The candid innovator behind a sustainable interior design business explains how he made "green" so cheap that even Wall Street is buying his goods.

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Call in the Kids: Young Entrepreneurs Bring New Ideas to the United Nations

Call in the Kids: Young Entrepreneurs Bring New Ideas to the United Nations

Can young business leaders shake up the world's biggest international organization?

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T-Shirt Remix: Recycling America's Used Clothes for Social Impact

T-Shirt Remix: Recycling America's Used Clothes for Social Impact

Your old t-shirts got shipped to Africa. Project Repat's local artisans recycle and remix them for resale, creating jobs and social impact.

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Eating Out? Bring a Charity to Dinner

Eating Out? Bring a Charity to Dinner

One company is making philanthropy as easy as, well, ordering a pizza.

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Admitting Failure: Water Groups Stress Metrics to Improve Aid

Admitting Failure: Water Groups Stress Metrics to Improve Aid

The problem isn’t just that water pumps break: Lacking monitoring, they stay broken.

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