Bill Liao

Profiting From Disaster VS Doing Well by Doing Good

Bill Liao | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Philanthropy, Corporate Philanthropy, Bill Liao, Strategic Philanthropy, The Giving Life, Healthy Living News
Bill Liao

Charities that use an old model of either providing direct aid or service often cause far more harm than good. They disrupt economies, putting people out of business by competing with local operations.

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You CAN make a difference!

Ellen Snortland | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Now That She's Gone, Women's Rights, Leadership, Social Justice, Nepal, Bill Liao, Esra'a Al Shafei, Maggie Doyne, Re-Foresting, Lakshmi Venkatesan, Gender Equality, Global Transformation, Stone Soup, Udhr, Sustainability, Rebecca Self, Subhash Ghimire, Esgt, Impact News
Ellen Snortland

The European Summit for Global Transformation started when a group of friends asked, "What if we got together everyone we knew who's up to big things on the planet?" The results have exceeded everyone's expectations.

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COP15 -- What Really Happened

Ellen Snortland | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Permaculture, Bill Liao, Sudan, cop15, Un, Weforestcom, Draft Copenhagen Accord, Reforestation, Green News
Ellen Snortland

Being an official Party in the COP15 meetings, I sat bewildered as all the agreements we were working on got sidelined by a document that a small group of 30 nations, led by the US president, inserted into the agenda.

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A Tree Grows in Copenhagen

Ellen Snortland | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bill Liao, cop15, Neo.org, Kyoto Protocol, WeForest.Com, Climate Change, Un, G77, Green News
Ellen Snortland

Part of being a first timer at the UN COP15 Climate Change conference is learning the ropes. Bill Liao is doing just that, and checks in with a report on all he's learned from Copenhagen.

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