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Indian Company Protoprint Transforms Waste into 3D Printing Filament for Commercial Use
This week, we reported on New Zealand-based Waikato University’s revolutionary FDM technology-based 3D printing method that allows anyone to print complex objects by converting waste material into thermoplastic filament, and we’ve seen several initiatives around the world focused on bringing waste material into reuse via 3D printing.
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- Environment, Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia
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Release of New European Microfinance Platform Action Group Publications
The European Microfinance Platform (e-MFP) Action Groups are gearing up for the European Microfinance Week (EMW) where they'll gather for their annual meetings on 16 November and share their latest findings in panels organized on 17 - 18 November. In anticipation of EMW, the Microfinance & Environment Action Group and the Digital Innovations for Financial Empowerment Action Group have released the following publications.
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- Environment
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- Europe & Eurasia
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PotaVida Is a Smart, Solar-Powered Water Purifier for People in Need
The company: PotaVida, a Seattle startup that harnesses sunlight to disinfect water for use in disaster relief or refugee crises.
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- Environment, Technology
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- solar
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Viewpoint: After Hurricane Matthew, Will Aid Predators Ravage Haiti?
n Tuesday, Hurricane Matthew moved slowly through Haiti’s south-west armed with heavy rain and 145 miles per hour wind. Any country subjected to a category 4 hurricane would suffer great damage to its infrastructure. Haiti, however, experienced a catastrophe.
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- Environment
- Region
- North America
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The Accidental Social Entrepreneur: A Hippie Ecologist’s Foray into a Costa Rican Business Start-up
Fifteen years ago, American Lisa Bradshaw became a social entrepreneur. But at the time, she didn't know it. When she launched the eco-conscious and locally sourced Green Screen in 2002, no other plant-based insect repellents were on the market in Costa Rica and certification requirements for organic products had just recently been legislated. Here are some of the hard lessons she picked up.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Social Enterprise
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A Tale of Clean Cities: How to Solve the Urban Sanitation Challenge
Over half of the world’s population now live in urban areas, and that figure is set to continue rapidly rising. By 2050, it’s estimated that more than two thirds of people will be living in cities. Most of these additional people will live in unplanned settlements or slums without adequate basic services, such as access to clean water and toilets.
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- Environment, Health Care
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Blackrock: Climate Change Is Going to Move a Huge Amount of Money and Not Enough People Are Paying Attention
BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager with almost $5 trillion (£3.7 trillion) in assets, said that all investors need to factor climate change, and the investment needed to halt it, into their future risk-assessments.
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- Environment, Investing
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Climate Change Predicted to Halve Coffee-Growing Area That Supports 120m People
Climate change is going to halve the area suitable for coffee production and impact the livelihoods of more than 120 million of the world’s poorest people who rely on the coffee economy, according to a new report by the Climate Institute, commissioned by Fairtrade Australia & New Zealand.
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- Agriculture, Environment