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Rising Ventures: Electrocell – Ready to Launch the Hydrogen Economy in Brazil
A chance meeting in a coffee bar at the University of Sao Paulo led scientists Gehrard Ett and Gilberto Janolio to create what would become the Latin-American leader in fuel cell technology. Today, Electrocell is ready to launch the hydrogen economy in Brazil.The offices of Electrocell are...
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Entrepreneurs Hope to Make it to “The Show”
Ironically enough, I found myself reading this article in the New York Times on an New Jersey Transit express train this morning.? The irony is that I was on my way to a meeting with the Acumen Fund, talking about ways WRI and Acumen might work together. ? Why ironic (cue Alanis...
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Tom Friedman’s Perfect Column: Patient Capital in Africa
I really like Tom Friedman - I have since high school, when a summer program I attended assigned his book, The Lexus and the Olive Tree. I’ve also seen him sitting in DC cafes, running to catch cabs, and even met him in person at WRI’s 25th Anniversary Dinner. Nice guy. Smart, too....
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Rising Ventures: Envirovision Aims to Move Businesses Beyond Greenwashing
This Investor Feature is based on a recent interview with Yeung Hau Man, founder of Envirovision. Hau Man is dedicating his career to creating sound, standardized sustainability reporting at a time when such reporting is frequently ambiguous, unreliable, and extremely easy to manipulate for the...
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Guest Post: Africa’s ICT Wave Reaches San Francisco Bay
Andrew Mack is a former World Bank official and Principal of AMGlobal Consulting. He previously blogged for NextBillion .net about Rwanda’s IT development and leapfrog technologies, in January 2007. By Andrew Mack About three weeks ago, I sat in a conference hall in San Francisco...
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Grassroots Business Initiative Grows Tall
I attended an all-day workshop at the IFC yesterday on their Grassroots Business Initiative (GBI). A half dozen of the Initiative’s enterprises from Africa, Asia, and Latin America, and 30 or so GBI partners also attended, along with their program staff. The meeting was conducted under...
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2007 Socially Responsible Business Plan Awards
Aram Kang is Program Coordinator for the Sustainable Enterprise Program at WRI.? Originally from Seoul, Korea, Aram holds an MEM from the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University. By Aram Kang This past Friday, April 13th, WRI hosted the William James Foundation?s 4th Annual...
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BiD Challenge Enters its 3rd Year
In Uganda, there is a small business whose model is based on manufacturing and selling products made from indigenous tree bark. The bark can be sustainably collected as this particular species of tree has the property of easily regrowing bark after being stripped bare. The material is...
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