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Echoing Green Announces The Next Generation Of Social Entrepreneurs
Today Echoing Green announced its 2014 class of Fellows including Global, Black Male Achievement and Climate Fellows.
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- Energy, Environment
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- Base of the Pyramid, solar
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Community-based Health Care Delivery in China: Le-Nest’s membership fee model could translate to low-income populations
Le-Nest is addressing the gap in preventive health care and health management by bringing appropriate care and skills to its patients through existing community networks in Shanghai. It’s a model that could potentially be translated to lower-income populations.
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- Education, Environment, Health Care
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- scale
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Cleantech in the developing world: from solar power to refrigeration
For a growing number of companies, cleantech promises innovations and opportunities at the base of the pyramid
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- Energy, Environment, Impact Assessment
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- impact investing, solar
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Nurturing Startups Trying To Reduce Pollution From Plastic
The problem of plastic pollution is so vast, it deserves a business accelerator for startups focused only on reducing all that waste. Now there is one.
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- Environment
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Solar Crowdfunding Platform SunFunder Join’s Power Africa’s Beyond the Grid
The US Government, under the aegis of the Obama administration, has formally launched Power Africa to increase energy access to those in need in sub-Saharan Africa. SunFunder is one of the founding partners of the initiative and joins an august group that includes another solar crowdfunding platform Mosaic.
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- Energy, Environment
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I.D.B. to finance solar energy plant in Chile
The Inter-American Development Bank has approved a total of $66.4 million to finance a photovoltaic solar energy plant in the Chilean region of Antofagasta.
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- Energy, Environment
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- solar
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Four in five investors consider sustainability issues – PwC survey
Four in five investors have looked at sustainability issues in one or more investment contexts in the last year, according to research from PwC. However, investors also cited dissatisfaction with current reporting standards.
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- Education, Environment
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- impact investing, research
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Mainstreaming the Movement: Toniic CEO Stephanie Cohn Rupp discusses the future of impact investing
"Eventually, I think the victory will be when everyone who is investing ... can put their capital into impact," says Toniic CEO Stephanie Cohn Rupp. But can retail investors accurately assess their investments’ social impact? Is it responsible for pensions or IRAs to offer impact options? And which investments should qualify as "impact"? In part two of our Q&A, Cohn Rupp discusses these and other questions.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment
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