Topic: West Africa

Homes on Stilts: The Last Architecture Trend of the Decade

Why stilted? Whatever their actual environmental benefit might be, stilts express a culture-wide desire to tread lightly on the land. They’re also a throwback to the virtuously simple tropical huts and the early days of prefab. READ»

Cadbury Creme Eggs Get A Conscience

By next Easter, your Creme Eggs may be a little less of a guilty pleasure. Cadbury just completed a deal to source fair-trade cocoa from Ghana by the end of summer 2009. The cocoa will come from a cooperative with the delightful ...READ»

Creating a Post-Crisis Economy: Why We Need Economic Dashboards

A significant difference between those of us fortunate to be living above the poverty line and those unfortunate enough to be at the "bottom of the pyramid" is that the 'wealthy' can afford to consume. Being a ...READ»

• Creating a Post-Crisis Economy: Learning to Measure Participation
• Creating a Post-Crisis Economy: Moving Beyond Consumption

Michael Wachs CEOCast

Michael Wachs CEOCastREAD»

Five Ways Obama Could Best Spend His $1.4M in Nobel Cash

The Fast Company staff offers five from-the-hip ideas of organizations that could use Obama's chunk of change to make a massive impact. READ»

Infographic of the Day: Income Inequality Around the World

In the U.S., rising income inequality has been called the greatest threat to our democracy. And for good reason: Studies have shown that in countries where the rich make vastly more than the middle class and poor, support for ...READ»

Africa Technology and Investment Digest 7

Subscribe to Appfrica via E-mail Moving from Prepay to Subscription The majority of people in developed regions of African countries still have no access to credit cards. Of the African banks that do offer credit or debit cards, ...READ»

Colin Johnson

Columbia Business SchoolREAD»

60 Seconds With Jeffrey Sachs

You don't need a PhD to redress humanity's saddest oversights.READ»

Zimbabwe's Diamond Mines Lead to Rape, Murder, and Thievery

Zimbabwe's newfound diamond fields could have helped lift the country from its misery. Instead, they've fueled a cycle of government-sanctioned rape, murder, and thievery -- and pushed the place still closer to collapse.READ»

Socially Responsible Investing: why it fails and how to fix it.

Socially Responsible Investing: why it fails and how to fix it. The future of Socially Responsible Investing (that is investments made to serve a social purpose instead of a purely financial one) faces a long difficult ...READ»

They Put the Rest of the World on the Web

The "tech cowboys" at Webcast Solutions travel to some of the poorest places in the world -- and uncover rich content for the World Wide Web. Have you tuned in to the radio broadcast from Burkina Faso?READ»

Can Carbon Credits Slow Global Warming?

Legal limits on greenhouse-gas emissions are coming fast, with a $1 trillion carbon market emerging. At the core: A cadre of young, idealistic Yale forestry grads. But will carbon offsets do anything to slow global warming?READ»

• Green Family Tree
• Silicon Valley's Green Angel Investors
• The King of Green Investing

IJango - how to network market Google

ijango, ijango signup, register ijango, cameron sharpe, cameron b sharpeREAD»

Daddy Givebucks: Lessons Learned When Warren Buffett Hands You $1 Billion

Three years ago, Warren Buffett gave each of his kids $1 billion to give away -- suddenly thrusting them into the philanthropic elite. Here's what they learned.READ»

China's New Oil Supplier

When my plane smacks down in Equatorial Guinea -- where if the captain misses the runway, you could end up in Cameroon -- I become the first American journalist to visit this pint-sized republic (population: 550,000) in nearly three ...READ»

A Chocolate Maker is Buffeted By Global Forces Beyond His Control

How long can he stay profitable?READ»

'You Can't Create a Leader in a Classroom.'

Professor Henry Mintzberg is one of the world's most influential teachers of business strategy. Now he's developing a new lesson plan: to change the very essence of business education itself.READ»

Next Stop - The 21st Century

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Deviants, Inc.

Deviance tells the story of every mass market ever created. What starts out weird and dangerous becomes America's next big corporate payday. So are you looking for the next mass-market idea? It's out there ... way out there.READ»