There’s a good story in Time Magazine about growing consumer awareness around how consumption choices impact the environment, workers and other social issues.   “We are again entering a period of social change as Americans are recalibrating our sense of what it means to be a citizen, not just through voting or volunteering but also through [...]

Outlook Business, an Indian business magazine, has focused its current issue on social entrepreneurs, identifying 50 innovators driving social change in India and beyond.  The work of Amitabha Sadangi, a 2005 Skoll social entrepreneur who runs IDE-India, and Bunker Roy, a 2005 Skoll social entrepreneur who runs Barefoot College, is profiled respectively here and here.  [...]

BusinessWeek online recently published a special report on social entrepreneurs. The lead story, which quotes Sally Osberg of the Skoll Foundation, is here.  As part of the report, BusinessWeek solicited reader input to identify the top social entrepreneurs in the U.S.  They chose to look only at for-profit ventures, leaving out many individuals we at [...]

Sam Goldman, the founder of d.light design and a blogger on Social Edge, has just landed $6 million in investment funding for his initiative to deliver solar powered LED lights to replace kerosene lanterns in developing countries.  d.light design has an ambitious goal:  to be the leading player in off-grid [...]