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Waste Not, Want Not: Eco-Fuel Africa
Sanga Moses, is the founder of Eco-Fuel Moses recently applied for the WWF Switzerland Tropical Forest Challenge – a challenge that is working to identify the best for-profit solutions having a positive impact on tropical forest biodiversity in any of the 75 tropical forest-rich countries around the world.
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- Energy, Environment, Technology
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Achieving Sustainable Energy for All Hinges on International Cooperation and Leadership
This year was designated the International Year of Sustainable Energy for All by the UN General Assembly to raise awareness and promote the three objectives: clean energy access, energy efficiency, and renewable energy. 2012 is also the year of the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development, to be held in late June. The moment is ripe for action, and lofty goals have been set, but where to begin?
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- Energy, Environment
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A Wish for Sharing: Why Social Entrepreneurs Don’t Need A Bottled Genie to Gain
More often than not, entrepreneurs who share the same mission – ending energy poverty, hesitate to share resources, even if we all benefit. What are we afraid of? Is it the fear that all our hard work simply paved the way for someone else to get credit for lifting a billion villagers out of energy poverty? Or maybe it’s the bucks we were planning to make while perusing our lofty goal?
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- Energy, Social Enterprise
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Serving the Trillion Dollar BoP Energy Market
Not everyone wants to spend their weekend in a conference room discussing challenges like benchmarking low-cost solar home lighting systems, finding the right business model, and raising the seed capital. But for the 11 social entrepreneurs gathered with experts and the CSTS Clean Energy Sector team, there’s no place else we would have rather been.
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Opening a New Energy Map, Featuring Top Trends from 42 Social Enterprises
On Tuesday, Ayllu and the Center for Science, Technology and Society in (CSTS) at Santa Clara University launched the Energy Map, an interactive tool for navigating market solutions to energy poverty. Although the map is focused on energy, it is relevant to any social enterprise operating in BoP markets.
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- Energy, Social Enterprise
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- renewable energy, solar
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19 Days, 6,600 km: ’Ride for Light’ Motorcycle Journey to Illuminate the Philippines
Solar technology-focused social enterprises in Africa and Asia have used many creative marketing/PR strategies to share their products with light deprived communities. Kicking off on April 16, "Ride for Light" riders will travel thousands of miles across the Philippines archipelago on motorcycle to spread the word about the power of solar.
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- Energy, Social Enterprise
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- rural development, solar
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MicroEnergy Credits Corporation: Catalyzing Clean Energy for the BoP
It is impossible to argue against the need for reliable energy at the BoP. Energy drives every facet of society, from nourishment to communication. According to the UNDP, at least 1.2 billion people suffer from energy poverty, which has profound impact on health, education, and livelihoods. ...
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- Energy
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Healthcare Delivery: Consumer Products for Disease Prevention ? Part I
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. The old adage is particularly applicable to healthcare in developing countries, where millions of people die or get sick each year from illnesses that are easily preventable. The financial costs of these illnesses far outweigh the minimal...
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- Energy, Health Care
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