‘Gourmet carbon’ in Mexico from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Sara Olsen, a founding partner of the Social Venture Technology Group, talks in this 8-minute video interview about social enterprises, with a focus on a project her group backed, Patricia Ruiz Corzo’s Grupo Ecologico Sierra Gorda in Mexico, which conducted an experiment in "gourmet carbon." Listen […]
Archives for October 2008
High-speed Internet: the real deal
Toward a philanthropic Web
Photos of ‘The Conversation’
Here are some photos of The Conversation: The Future of Cinema, Games & Online Video, a two-day conference held Friday and Saturday at the Pacific Film Archive at UC Berkeley. Journalist-author Scott Kirsner organized the program, which was geared toward filmmakers, digital media makers and gamers. Above is a shot of Gregg and Evan Spiridellis, […]
Advancing the social good
Advancing the social good from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Here’s a 4-minute interview I did with Kevin Jones, founder of a new conference called Social Capital Markets. The three-day gathering in San Francisco, with 650 attendees, focused on social enterprises, the blurring line between nonprofits and socially conscious for-profits, and the tidal wave of interest […]