FYI: Q&A With Environmental Defense's Fred Krupp

"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world." George Washington Carver What is Social Entrepreneurship? 社會企業家的事業 my facebook  &  my twitter & my tumblr --- 2009年10月2日 星期五，Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR) <info@ssireview.org> 寫道﹕ 寄件人: Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR) <info@ssireview.org> 主題: Q&A With Environmental Defense's Fred Krupp 收件人: houghton.wan@must.hk 日期: 2009年10月2日,星期五,上午3:06 Trouble viewing this e-mail? Click here. Q&A: Fred Krupp Fred Krupp has helped accomplish what some thought was impossible—getting businesses to go green voluntarily. By any measure, Fred Krupp's 24-year tenure as president of the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) has been a success. The organization's budget has jumped from $3 million to more than $100 million, the staff has grown from 50 to 400, and membership has expanded from 40,000 to more than 500,000. More important, under Krupp's leadership EDF has become one of the most important power brokers in the environmental arena. Krupp has accomplished all of this by relentlessly focusing on an important insight—that economic incentives can be used to entice businesses to behave in environmentally friendly ways. It's like using the carrot instead of the stick to get people to do what you want them to do. This social innovation has garnered its share of critics, but Krupp is unwavering, and by all indications his approach is gathering momentum. In this interview with Stanford Social Innovation Review Managing Editor Eric Nee ... >>Continue reading this interview New Social Innovation Conversation Siddharth Kara: Inside the Business of Modern Sex Slavery Sex trafficking is the most highly profitable—and exploitative—component of contemporary slavery. In this talk, author and former investment banker Siddharth Kara exposes the mechanisms behind this little-understood industry. 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