Introduction
All the continents of the world have been suffering from floods and droughts, fires, lack of water and food, famine, regional conflicts and climatic changes. During the last years, these phenomena have been evoking grave concern in our civilization’s future. The damages caused by water all over the world exceed hundreds of billion EUR annually. According to the prognoses, these damages tend to rise. To this, the coming economic crisis has been added bringing also unemployment with it. Nevertheless, it also brings opportunity to transfer and shift loosen work power to solve the above mentioned problems – just like it was successfully done during the Great Depression in the 30-ties of the 20th century in the USA, in framework of the New Deal program. continue… »

Governments, international organizations and businesses struggle to achieve the MDGs for drinking water and sanitation. Join this vital, solution oriented discussion on how social entrepreneurs can contribute and collaborate in order to meet these goals. What are the most promising innovations? What is the role of non-state actors in global environmental governance and what questions of power and public/private authority do they raise? Finally, what are the ecological presuppositions of sustaining the water-related MDGs in an age of rapid climate change? continue… »

Cette semaine nous sommes allĂŠs de Budapest Ă  Kosice en passant par Bratislava… si vous regardez sur une carte vous verrez que c’est un sacrĂŠ dĂŠtour, mais vraisemblablement depuis la France, c’était le seul trajet proposĂŠ par la SNCF… Nous avions rendez-vous avec Michal Kravcik qui très gentiment est venu nous chercher Ă  la gare et nous a amenĂŠ dans un hĂ´tel qui est situĂŠ sous les gradins du stade de foot de la ville ! Le lendemain nous avons passĂŠ une journĂŠe passionnante aux cĂ´tĂŠs de cet homme qui a fondĂŠ l’ONG PEOPLE & WATER. continue… »

Edited by Rafael Ziegler, Co-ordinates the Social Entrepreneurship Research Group GETIDOS at the University of Greifswald and the Institut fĂźr Ăśkologische Wirtschaftsforschung, Berlin, Germany. He was formerly a lecturer at the European College of Liberal Arts, where he developed a social entrepreneurship education format that gained UNESCO recognition.

Edited by Rafael Ziegler, Co-ordinates the Social Entrepreneurship Research Group GETIDOS at the University of Greifswald and the Institut fĂźr Ăśkologische Wirtschaftsforschung, Berlin, Germany. He was formerly a lecturer at the European College of Liberal Arts, where he developed a social entrepreneurship education format that gained UNESCO recognition. This timely book sets social entrepreneurship in a historical context, from its philanthropic beginnings in the Victorian era to the present day, against the backdrop of contemporary global capitalism. The authors take a multi-disciplinary and cultural approach, drawing on insights from social entrepreneurs and innovators themselves, to describe the workings of social entrepreneurship and to explore its import as a gauge of contemporary social and economic conditions. continue… »

As of recently, the assumed role of carbon dioxide (CO2) as one of the leading causes of global warming has become widely criticized (Gerlich & Tscheuschner, 2007; US Senate, 2008). This insight conflicts with the popular political and public view which explains the cause of global warming as the increase of greenhouse gas emissions. The main evidence supporting this theory is the correlation between atmospheric CO2 and global temperatures. This correlation, however, is not substantiated by scientifically proven methods and can
therefore not verify a clear, causal connection. continue… »