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How Indoor Stoves Can Help Solve Global Poverty
Clean cooking and better sources of energy can have a domino effect on health and education.
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- Energy, Health Care, Technology
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- solar
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Bringing Solar Power To Remote Hospitals Is Saving Lives
One startup working in Nepal learned that delivering high-quality health care often means having to innovate in unexpected ways--such as building new energy systems.
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- Energy, Environment, Health Care
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- solar
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NexThought Monday – Solving the Energy Access Problem: In-house distribution + in-house product design
Patrick Walsh founded Greenlight Planet to offer rural, low-income families a clean, affordable, and safe alternative to traditional kerosene lamps. But he and his team quickly discovered that producing a great product got them only halfway home. Walsh says bringing Greenlight’s distribution chain in house, along with its product design, has made all the difference for the for-profit firm.
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- Energy
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- distribution, solar, supply chains
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Why It’s Hard to Divest From Fossil Fuels (Even If You Want To)
Climate change activists are pushing for investors to get out of carbon polluters. What are the options for individuals using mutual funds?
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- Energy, Environment, Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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WIN-WIN 2.0: Connecting gender lens investing with clean tech
The smoke released from traditional sources of household energy pose serious risks to the people’s health – particularly women and children. That’s why Calvert Foundation and its partners have committed to investing an additional $20 million through its women-focused WIN-WIN portfolio, in organizations and enterprises that provide clean household technologies and fuels.
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Bank of America Announces $10 Billion Catalytic Finance Initiative to Accelerate Clean Energy Investments
New York, 23 September 2014 - Bank of America today announced a Catalytic Finance Initiative, designed to stimulate at least $10 billion of new investment into high-impact clean energy projects.
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- Energy, Environment
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Why the Rockefellers are betting on renewable energy
Sure, it's mostly symbolic. But the global energy business is also on the cusp of a dramatic transformation.
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- Energy
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- impact investing
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M-Kopa Solar Powers Up 100,000th Home in East Africa
M-KOPA Solar announced on Friday that it has powered up to 100,000 homes in Kenya and Uganda within two years of its commercial launch.
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- Energy, Environment, Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- solar
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