<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Recent News Features</title><link>http://www.scu.edu/blogs?b=448</link><description>Below are recent articles featuring CSTS or written by CSTS staff members.</description><category>news</category><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:16:35 PST</pubDate><managingEditor>Eberkenmeier@scu.edu (Center for Science, Technology, and Society)</managingEditor><item><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST</pubDate><title>The Guardian: &apos;Best of the web: We Round up Some of the Most Useful and Interesting Social Enterprise Links from Around the Web&apos;</title><link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/social-enterprise-network/2012/jan/05/best-social-enterprise-links-5-january</link><description>We Round up Some of the Most Useful and Interesting Social Enterprise Links from Around the Web</description><author>EBerkenmeier@scu.edu (Gines Haro Pastor)</author><comments>http://www.scu.edu/blogs?b=448?c=12086</comments><category>2012</category><guid>http://www.scu.edu/blogs?b=448?c=12086</guid></item><item><pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 00:00:00 PST</pubDate><title>The Mercury News: &apos;Social Entrepreneurs, Not Charities, Will Help the Next Billion Out of Poverty&apos;</title><link>http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_19249437</link><description>This week the world hits 7 billion in population, just 12 years after we reached 6 billion.

Virtually all of these new billion live at the so-called Base of the Pyramid -- that segment of humanity that, by virtue of economic and political circumstance, struggles to meet basic food, water and energy needs on incomes of around $2 a day.</description><author>ALieberman@scu.edu (Andy Lieberman)</author><comments>http://www.scu.edu/blogs?b=448?c=12079</comments><category>2011</category><guid>http://www.scu.edu/blogs?b=448?c=12079</guid></item><item><pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 00:00:00 PST</pubDate><title>Xconomy: &apos;Thane Kreiner, the Biotech-Entrepreneur-Turned-Educator With 1 Billion People on His Mind&apos;</title><link>http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2011/08/25/thane-kreiner-the-biotech-entrepreneur-turned-educator-with-1-billion-people-on-his-mind/</link><description>Thane Kreiner, in the prime of his professional life at 50, could be doing pretty much whatever he wants in Silicon Valley?s biotech industry. But about a year ago, he took a job that offered him a big cut in salary, no stock options, and no performance bonuses.

The lure? The chance to help build businesses in the developing world with the potential to make a difference for 1 billion people.</description><author>ltimmerman@xconomy.com (Luke Timmerman)</author><comments>http://www.scu.edu/blogs?b=448?c=12084</comments><category>2011</category><guid>http://www.scu.edu/blogs?b=448?c=12084</guid></item></channel></rss>
