This post was originally produced for Forbes.
Social entrepreneurship is growing so fast that from where I sit it appears to be about to overwhelm its traditional borders to redefine the whole of entrepreneurship.
It has always been true that great entrepreneurs are more interested in change than money, but much of the energy has been on technological change that would impact primarily the affluent, making happy people just a bit more blissful.
Increasingly, entrepreneurship is about seeing the opportunities in helping to make the lives of the desperately poor more enjoyable by providing access to electricity, credit, insurance, clean water and a host of consumer goods that we all take for granted. More and more, I see people from across the political spectrum accept that humans have a deep responsibility to heal and restore the environment and are using business as a vehicle for that change.
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