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Student Social Entrepreneurs from India Win the 2012 Intel Global Challenge
With a “jugaad” mindset embedded in the culture, India has no shortage of social innovators cooking up solutions to the world’s ills. As a matter of fact, the Greenway Grameen Infra (GGI) team from India has just been announced as the winners of the 2012 Intel Global Challenge at UC Berkeley, receiving $50,000 from the Intel Foundation on their invention of a biomass-based stove that increases fuel efficiency.
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- Energy, Entrepreneurship
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- South Asia
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Four African Teenagers Create Power From Pee
A group of African girls have made an engine that runs on a truly renewable resource: human urine.
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- Energy, Environment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- renewable energy
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Final Frontier: Firms Flock to Newly Opened Myanmar
YANGON, Myanmar—For Tim Love, a vice chairman of advertising giant Omnicom Group, it was an opportunity too good to pass up: an entire country, off the map for most Western investors for decades, embracing foreign investment in a place with untapped energy resources and 60 million people.
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- Energy
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- South Asia
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Husk Power Systems raises $5 million for expansion
Husk Power Systems, a Bihar-based company that runs micro power plants on agricultural waste, has raised Series A equity financing of $5 million (Rs 27 crore) from co-investors Bamboo Finance, Acumen Fund, and LGT Venture Philanthropy.
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- Energy, Entrepreneurship, Environment
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- South Asia
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- impact investing
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‘Over 60 percent of land projected to become urban by 2030 yet to be built’
Global urbanisation will have significant implications for biodiversity and ecosystems if current trends continue, with knock-on effects for human health and development, observes a new assessment by the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).
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- Energy, Environment, Health Care
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- South Asia
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Uncorking Bottled Light: A Study In Energy Access, Acceptance: A pilot project is testing solar ‘bottle’ lamps to curb illegal energy usage
Traditionally, slum dwellings are dark, one-room structures with no window or passage through which sunlight can enter. As a consequence, slum residents end up using illegal electricity lines to power light bulbs in their homes. In Dhaka, this illegal consumption amounts to approximately 275MW of electricity per year. Sajid Iqbal, a budding entrepreneur and environmental science and management student, sees a market opportunity.
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- Energy, Entrepreneurship
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Off the Grid Solutions in Mobile, Solar Schools: Four mini case studies of business, nonprofit, CSR, models
Beep beep! For some students, hopping on the school bus is hopping into the classroom. Four communities are using solar-powered mobile classrooms to overcome inaccessibility to the power grid.
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- Education, Energy, Impact Assessment
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Weekly Roundup: E+Co’s Slow Burn and What it Means for Impact Investing
E+Co’s effective demise raises questions beyond those of the immediate management, governance, due diligence and investment squabbles. Those factors are relevant of course, but the central point illustrated by the E+Co story is what it means for the impact investing sector writ large.
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- Energy, Entrepreneurship, NextBillion Originals
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