This Friday I was at the University of Hong Kong, giving a guest lecture in its Environmental Journalism class (graduate-level). I talked about how social media can help environmental journalists and this field of journalism, from finding story ideas to marketing your story. Below is a summary of what I covered in that one hour, combined with the comments from the audience.

One of the major issues will be how to ensure that the money loaned to the poor can be paid back. Yunus’ system in Bangladesh is organizing groups and having the group members meet every week and monitor within themselves. But this model may not be duplicable to China. China is diversified and fragmented in [...]

Jaquiline Novogratz‘s social enterprise is working fine in Africa. Her Acumen Fund, incorporated on April 1, 2001, currently manages more than $30 million in investments in South Asia and East Africa, all focused on delivering affordable healthcare, water, housing and energy to the poor. Novogratz believes that neither charity nor marketplace alone will solve the [...]