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Hyacinths and Sawdust Used to Combat Cooking Pollution
A brew made from sawdust and water hyacinth flowers may help reduce the millions of lives lost across the developing world from the fumes of ramshackle cooking equipment.
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- Energy, Environment, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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NexThought Monday: A New Checklist for Developing Markets for Underserved Communities
New research highlights the significance of incorporating a more “bottom-up” and participatory approach to market development – a position that contrasts with top-down methods that have dominated academic, policy and practitioner discourse.
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- Education, Energy, Impact Assessment
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INTASAVE Energy: Empowering Half a Million Africans to Improve Their Health, Education and Economy Starts with $1
A global not-for-profit organisation called INTASAVE Energy is fulfilling its vision for every person on the planet to have access to clean power through the launch of its innovative Solar Nano Grids (SONGs) project, which kick-starts in November. The first grid in Africa will be installed in Lemolo B in Kenya, a community of about 250 people, and the project will subsequently expand to over 500 communities across Kenya, South Africa and Mozambique, transforming the lives of 500,000 people within three years.
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- Energy, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- renewable energy, solar
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Crowdfunding May Cut `Not in My Backyard’ Risk for Renewables
If you paid for it, you probably won’t be mad that it’s near your house. That, at least is what the proponents of green energy are saying.
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Power for All Receives UK Support to Help Africa’s Poor Achieve Energy Access Through Distributed Renewables
620 million Africans lack access to reliable energy. Today, Power for All and the UK Department for International Development (DFID) joined forces to advance the rapid uptake of distributed renewable energy in Africa to help turn the problem of energy access into an opportunity.
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- Energy, Environment, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Street Lamp Targets Dengue Fever
Researchers at a Malaysian university have built an LED street lamp with a mosquito trap, both powered by wind and solar energy.
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- Energy, Environment, Health Care
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- Asia Pacific
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- infectious diseases, solar
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Weekly Roundup 10-16-15: The built-in drama of SOCAP
The world of double-bottom-line investment is still in its infancy, relatively speaking, and it’s growing. The key players are still trying to understand each others’ motivations and how best to work together. That intricate, evolving dance between investors and investees is, at the end of the day, what SOCAP is all about, and why it’s so compelling.
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- Energy, Environment
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These Solar-Powered Machines Help Farmers Dry Their Food Instead of Letting It Rot
A lot of food grown in developing countries never makes it to the people's bellies. Because of a lack of refrigeration, it rots during transport or when farmers fail to sell it immediately at markets. Every year, 1.3 billion tons of food (with a value of more than $1 trillion) is wasted in this way, according to the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization.
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- Agriculture, Energy
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- solar
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