Here’s your Daily Brief for November 23rd:

TerraCycle // Outsmarting Waste – This is a very cool up-and-coming venture that is taking trash collected by members of their site and turning it into eco-friendly products for sale. They currently sell over 50 products available at retailers including Walmart, Target, Home Depot, OfficeMax, Petco, and Whole Foods! HT Brooke Estin

Liberate Iraq’s Economy (via NYT) – While Iraqi security seems to be calming, a quiet storm may be growing in the economy — a rising unemployment rate driven by a shortage of jobs and a growing number of job-seekers. The first and most immediate step that must be taken in a change in the current hostile government regulation of the private sector. The potential for economic growth in Iraq is great, but it must be unleashed! Peace will not be sustained if there are no jobs.

Weekend Entrepreneur Links (via Change.org) – Nathaniel Whittemore put together a good collection of links from the last couple of days — the cream of the crop

The Social Entrepreneurship Standard (via Change.org) – Pamela Hawley, founder and CEO of UniversalGiving, wrote this great guest post over at Change.org about how her organization has succeeded at creating a revenue-generating nonprofit through a cross-subsidization model. It’s a great read to get a feel for how an organization can be structured, and to learn more about what Pamela and UniversalGiving are doing!