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The Cookstove That Could Save 4 Million Lives Per Year
Growing up, Phil Ferranto never thought about how people cooked around the world. He took it for granted, like many of us do, thinking most people had access to some type of stove to feed their families.
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- Energy, Environment, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Solar Crowdfunding: In Need Of A Kickstart
Solar power is going intergalactic. In an announcement late last month, SolarCity SCTY +1.77%, the country’s largest installer of rooftop solar arrays, announced that private space company SpaceX had scooped up $90 million of its corporate bonds.
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- Energy
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Ikea’s Newly Designed Refugee Shelters Are a Game Changer
The units are spacious, have solar panels, and can last an average of three years.
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- Energy, Environment
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- North Africa & Near East
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Where Is the Rockefeller Family Reinvesting Its Former Oil Holdings?
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund—the $866 million-asset foundation started in 1940 by John D. Rockefeller Jr.’s five sons—announced in September that the family would divest itself of all their coal, tar-sands, and fossil-fuel investments held in the fund’s endowment. The eight Rockefeller family trustees on the board decided the fund needed “to better align its endowed assets with its mission” of combating climate change.
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Press Release: Global Impact Investing Network Publishes Landscape Reporton Impact Investing Industry in South Asia
The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), in partnership with Dalberg Global Development Advisors, today published the full release of The Landscape for Impact Investing in South Asia, a “state of the market” analysis of the impact investing industry in the region. The most comprehensive study of impact investment activity in South Asia to date, the full report includes a chapter for each of the six countries studied—Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.
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- Energy
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- South Asia
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Wells Fargo Selects Clean Technology Startups for Innovation
$10 million program to help four winning companies develop energy-efficient smart glass, cooling, battery and smart metering technologies.
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- Energy, Environment, Technology
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World Bank President Outlines Strategy to End Poverty, Welcomes New Development Partners
World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim today announced a broad strategy to end extreme poverty by 2030, and he welcomed emerging players such as the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and the New Development Bank, established by the BRICS countries, as potentially strong allies in the economic development of poor countries and emerging markets.
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This Woman Might Be the Most Successful Impact Investor You’ve Never Heard Of
The February ribbon cutting for Gigawatt Global’s new $24 million solar field in Rwanda was an impact investment showcase. More than 28,000 solar panels, arranged in the shape of the African continent, added six percent to the entire country’s electricity production.
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- Energy, Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing, solar
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