LAUNCH

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Who’s your money on?
Whose wallet is it?

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Short & sweet
Market place for social investments; Solar power for Ghana; Training project in Afghanistan

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Child’s play
Pupils plant trees to ward off climate collapse

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The question of all questions
Can capitalism ever be fair? This time: street artist Slinkachu

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Questions at the Bundestag
Interview with Valerie Wilms of Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, member of the Bundestag Sustainability Committee

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Column: Fred’s Grimm
The hour of the poets

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Business on credit
Microloans have long been seen as the ideal way of combating poverty. However, they are no panacea. The new approach is microsavings. Plus info graphics: The worldwide money flows of microloans

FINANCE

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Ethical investments
A new fund finances social businesses

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“If you are successful, you should share”
Asset researcher Thomas Druyen on true wealth and the power of compassion

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Essay
Swiss private banker Eric G. Sarasin argues the case for the society of values as economic factor

POLITICS

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The roaring ride of Evil Niebel
Federal minister Dirk Niebel is attempting a mammoth project: the merger of the major German aid organisations

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*Charity begins at home? *
Bosses with Maseratis or two salaries – the charitable organisations are coming in for criticism. But still not being controlled

SOCIAL

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Human resources
How much money is a human life worth? Author Jörn Klare has found out – and come up against numerous ethical questions

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The good youngsters
At the urging of the students: The theme of ethics is beginning to permeate the business courses of German universities

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Yoghurt for the world
The Hartmann interview: Prestige project or a genuine concern? Danone Managing Director Ramin Khabirpour on the social yoghurt factory that his company runs in Bangladesh

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Films of hope
A German director is rebuilding a cinema in Palestine. The aim: jobs, peace and a touch of glamourns

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Rear window
New mobile apps as shopping aid for conscientious consumers

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Operations to help children
An association is operating on children with disfigurements in Africa

ECOLOGY

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Comparison
A fortnight on Mallorca, all inclusive: how travellers are damaging the climate

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A city as an open-air laboratory
The Morgenwelt company wants to convert the city of Elmshorn over to renewable forms of energy

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The knack
Current study: how environmentally aware and social are the car manufacturers?

COUNTRY REPORT

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Austria on the brink of change
Austria’s organic farming is becoming ever more popular, the social business scene is becoming increasingly active. In the field of CSR, however, the country has some catching up to do. And yet the Alpine republic was once a pioneer, until a lack of political will and perseverance took hold. This is now set to change

SERVICE

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Money
Sustainable funds – not all are ethically correct; US funds speculate with death; Wind energy, the better investment

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This is what can happen
The Stadthaushotel in Hamburg demonstrates how the disabled can be integrated into everyday working situations. Now it is expanding

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Benefactors
Portrait of Jens Mittelsten Scheid, winner of the Deutscher Stifterpreis 2010; PR prize for a children’s foundation; Facts & figures

LIFE

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Freedom is an eight-hour day
A desk, contacts and a regulated working day: coworking is a job model for the future

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Madame Troublemaker
Mariella Berthéas advises France’s economics minister. She brings a dose of real life to the world of politics, with humour and good ideas