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Announcing ClearlySo in Germany

September 10, 2009 |

Since 2007 we have been organising trips to learn from and celebrate the best of social business and enterprise from around the world. Beginnning with the Balkans, we moved to Thailand, Mozambique, Canada and Sri Lanka, among others, to learn from some of the world’s great practitioners and shout about their successes. ClearlySo hopes one day to have full operations in these and other countries but in the meantime our blog series will have to suffice. It is by coincidence that as I sit here in Germany, attending the annual Global Economic Symposium in Ploen, that we have launched ClearlySo in Germany. (YES IT IS A COINCIDENCE!) Produced by one of our outstanding interns, Hans Schmucker, and co-authored by another, Julian Sartorius, it covers a few interesting stories, with more en route, and breaks new ground with video interviews (translated into English) of the CEOs. I hope you enjoy the blog–having met some more interesting social entrepreneurs in Germany (betterplace.org and DESERTEC among them) I am sure more stories will follow. It reinforces the notion as well that far more is happening on the Euopean continent than many realise. I hope readers do enjoy this and the other “ClearlySo in…” blogs. Please contact us with any suggestions.

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amy smithson on July 27, 2010 7:32 am
Great to know Clearly So is in Germany - I’m like a year out here!

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