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Wokai brings microfinance to China

By Erica Schlaikjer ⋅ June 4, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

We’ve mentioned them before (thanks, Mark) in our post about social entrepreneurship in Sichaun, but in case you didn’t hear the first time around, Wokai.org is raising loan capital for microfinance institutions in China.
A big thank you to co-founders Courtney McColgan and Casey Wilson for referring to ResponsibleChina in their recent blog post at Wokai [...]

Bambu hatches idea for NEST collective

By Erica Schlaikjer ⋅ May 30, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Check out my recent post on WorldChanging.com about the NEST collective, co-founded by Jeff Delkin and Rachel Speth of bambu, a renewable bamboo kitchenware and utensils company based in Shanghai. Stay tuned for an upcoming ResponsibleChina podcast about bambu’s vision of “responsible manufacturing.”
Proudly Made in China: NEST collective
WorldChanging Team
May 27, 2008
A group of foreigners doing [...]

Whoa, baby, organic clothes in China!

By Sophia Mendelsohn ⋅ May 9, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

(Image via BlogGreen)
Chinese products have been called “toxic” and created mass consumer unease recently, so China is not the obvious place to start looking for organic baby clothes. Still, with the population’s buying power and manufacturing capacity, baby clothes could be one of the most important markets for China’s economy. Sherry Poon, founder and owner [...]

The Library Project: Winter newsletter

By Erica Schlaikjer ⋅ March 17, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

(Photo courtesy of The Library Project)
A letter from Tom Stader of The Library Project, an initiative that has helped establish 20 libraries in rural elementary schools throughout China.
“Over the past three months The Library Project created twenty libraries in rural elementary schools throughout China. More than thirty thousand books were donated with each school receiving [...]

Social entrepreneurship in Sichuan: Interview with Meg Young of Ecologia, a sustainable development program

By Mark Hiew ⋅ January 29, 2008 ⋅ 3 comments

This post is part of an occasional series of interviews with those working on development and sustainability issues in China, particularly southwestern Sichuan province.
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Contributing blogger Mark Hiew brings you an interview with Meg Young from Ecologia, an example of social entrepreneurship through rabbit farming in Sichuan. Here, Young explains some of her successes and development [...]